Tag: VECTOR

Google Image Search just got a bit fancier: You can now filter search results to only include SVG files. SVG files, which stand for Scalable Vector Graphics, are files you can easily edit and change without loss of definition. If you've been following our Corel tutorials, they might have given you some ideas about the power of vector graphics. Being able to use Google to find such files ...

This is the fourth (and final) of our CorelDRAW video tutorials. You can watch the others by browsing the CorelDRAW tag. When creating a vector image or a composition, you don't always have to re-invent the wheel. After all, it is more than likely that whatever it is you're trying to do has been done before, at least in part. Using existing images or clip art ("media assets" in business ...

This is the second CorelDRAW tutorial in a series of four. Last week we looked at how to make a Polaroid-like image, and this week I'd like to show you how to vectorize a simple logo. I use the Android logo in the video, but you can do this with pretty much any logo other simple graphic. There are many reasons why you might like to vectorize an existing logo. Perhaps you need to modify it, ...

Watch out, Inkscape! As Web browsers become increasingly powerful, it is only a matter of time until a free browser-based vector graphics editor pops up that is powerful enough to compete with a desktop application -- and SVG-edit may well become that editor. Currently in version 2.5, this open-source project was surprisingly responsive and powerful on my aging Firefox 3.6.8. The one thing I ...

Currently available in the Firefox 4 nightly builds, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support is due to be rolled out with the next iteration of the Firefox 4 beta. For those not in the know, SVG is a family of 2D XML-based image formats that can be created as either static or dynamic images, similar to what you can do with GIFs. The benefit of using vector graphics over raster or bitmap formats, ...

If you're an artist or designer on a Mac, and you want to draw vectors without all the other cruft in the Adobe Creative Suite, you're in luck. Meet Sketch, a new OS X app that's designed purely for drawing vectors. It's got a lot of power tools, but it falls squarely into the "do one thing and do it well" school of software development.Sketch comes from Bohemian Coding, and it's compatible with ...

Today I had a quick play with the Google Docs drawing tool. It's awesome, but yet there's a strong chance that you didn't even know it existed! Just head over to docs.google.com > Create New > Drawing and give it a go. Don't forget to Insert > Image -- a whole wealth of Google Images await your artistic meddling! Poke around with the tools; they're very easy to use. OK, drawn ...

Contentric is one of those super-basic Flash games where gameplay is really simple, and half the fun comes from how smooth things look and the nice soundtrack is. You need to use your mouse ("9" above) to collect the bright tokens ("10" above) while avoiding the black dots. These black dots flock around you -- they move just a tad slower than you but in a herd-like formation. They always surround ...

SilverX is a Windows app that converts Flash (.SWF) videos to Microsoft's Silverlight format. It recognizes all the vectors, images, text and animations from the original Flash file, so you can extract all of those elements and edit them in a Silverlight app later. If you want to manipulate the individual elements, you can edit them like any other Silverlight solution, and even apply XAML. If you ...

Back in October we reported on graphics company Xara's plans to open the source code of their flagship product Xara Xtreme and bring it to Linux and Mac OS X. At the time no actual code had been released and only a "proof-of-concept" build was available. As of last week, however, the full source code is available under the GPL, paving the way for anyone to run the full-featured vector ...

Adobe makes a version of the Flash Player for Linux, but by most accounts it's nothing to write home about. Gnash might change the Linux Flash experience. It's an open source player for Flash files that, unlike most (unlicensed) third-party Flash tools, supports many features up to Flash 7. Gnash uses OpenGL to render Flash movies and comes in both stand-alone and Firefox plugin versions. ...

I have always hated the animation tools in Flash. Maybe it's because I cut my teeth doing animation the old-fashioned way. But ever since Adobe killed off LiveMotion my inner animator hasn't been happy.Which is why I was delighted to hear Toon Boom Studio has recently risen to the big 3.0. It appears the Mac version is now on par with the PC version (lip sync didn't work before) and there are some ...