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November 16, 2019
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How to turn image into vector grafic?

  • November 16, 2019
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I am just starting photoshop. How can i take a picture of the front street small town america and turn it into a vector. I am trying to make Christmas gifts and i need this image like that 

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Semaphoric
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2019

A way to avoid the problem JJ mentioned is to go to Image > Mode, and change to Indexed Color, with just a few colors (8 or less), using Local Perceptual. Then change back to RGB mode.

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2019

There is too much fine detail is a raster picture image. If you vectorised it the vector files would not really be useful if it could be done Within  Photoshop 8,000 layer limit. You would not want to edit a photoshop image document made with 8,000 shape layers.  If you have a simplify image like clip art you could use Illustrator trace or for free, use website Photopea and save a vectorized PSD file to you machine. Even simple clip art will require many shape layers.

JJMack
Legend
November 16, 2019

You'd do that in Illustrator, if what you really need is a vector. But why do you need a vector? There are endless effects you can do in Photoshop. Can you give us a link to the sort of effect you want?