This seems like the best place to ask though my question is perhaps like asking "how long is a piece of string?".
Am I missing a trick when creating vectors from jpegs? They always seem to go all wonky.
Currently I open the jpeg (or .png or whatever) in Illustrator and do a Live Trace but no matter how much I fiddle with the 'Threshold' and 'Min. Area' sliders I can't get nice crisp straight lines.
Jpg is a lossy format so you're always going to get blurry lines. You might get better results if you turn off fills, and just get it to do lines, but fundamentally, that is about as good an output as you're going to get
This seems like the best place to ask though my question is perhaps like asking "how long is a piece of string?".
Am I missing a trick when creating vectors from jpegs? They always seem to go all wonky.
Currently I open the jpeg (or .png or whatever) in Illustrator and do a Live Trace but no matter how much I fiddle with the 'Threshold' and 'Min. Area' sliders I can't get nice crisp straight lines.
ie. I start with
and end up with