How to trace a face from a pic in aminate cc??

[Guest]

so that it will be way easy to draw the face exactly. note the blue pointed lines(how to dow that??)

[kglad]

import your bitmap

add it to the stage

click it to select it, if it's not already selected

click modify>bitmap>trace bitmap

select some settings to experiment and click ok.

watch the magic.

you can then do much more like select regions and recolor, remove etc.

[Guest]

But nothing like this line appeared..??

[ClayUUID]

I don't see any blue pointed lines. I do see blue lines without points.

Your screenshot appears to be from a tutorial video. Maybe if you posted a link to the video instead, we'd be able to answer your question.

[Guest]

theres nothing much in the video..only this..!!

[kglad]

what exactly are you trying to do?

[Guest]

Trytn to make the the copy of face like this..so if i get that outline it will be helpful..!

[kglad]

if it's already a vector,

select the parts you want to copy (either by dragging your mouse and/or shift-clicking to add and remove additional regions etc) > right click it >click copy.

[Guest]

is there any video available in youtube??

[Guest]

thanks for the help by the way..!! but im not getting it right..!

[Guest]

after gtn the outline by giving it our own colour and creatn animated face..??

[kglad]

here's the outside of the face removed.  you can do the same for the inside, if that's what you want.

[Guest]

no bro..i want only the outline..!!! 2nd picture shows animated face...!!

i want outline of the face like in 1st picture(blue line)

the i can give colur and animate face..!

[kglad]

like i said, remove the inside of the face too, if that's what you want.  ie, leave just the outline.

but i don't see a blue line in your first pic so i really don't know what you want.

[_keyframer]

You can not convert an imported bitmap to outlines like that. You can convert the layer it's on to outline mode but that turns the bitmap into the outlined square. Outlines are converted from strokes. On a layer above the bitmap, grab the Pencil or Brush tool and trace the contours of the face in the image. When you have only the details you want, convert THAT drawing layer to outline mode (it's located to the right of the layer name). Create a new layer and use that to draw your final drawing on.

[Colin Holgate]

Wouldn't Trace Bitmap get you close?

[_keyframer · Accepted solution]

ybe. Depends on the complexity oif the image. If you convert the bitmap to vectore using the trace feature, you'd still have to in and erase the unwanted parts of the image with the erasor tool. I personally would find it faster to simply draw the lines I want on a new layer. But then again have Cintiq.

[ClayUUID]

Oh dear. I think he thinks those blue lines overlaying the original photographic image are automatically generated by Animate.

They're not. You have to draw them yourself.