How to Vectorize Watercolors in Adobe Illustrator / PT 1 Scan & Clean Prep to Vectorize PHOTOSHOP

In this video series, you’ll be learning how to vectorize watercolors in Adobe Illustrator! We’ll be going through how to vectorize a watercolor floral! In this Part 1 video we’ll go through the prep work that we have to do before we convert the watercolor raster image to a vector- Scanning and Cleaning the image in Adobe Photoshop!

Scanning and cleaning is a crucial step that has to be performed neatly in order to ensure that your raster watercolor image converts nicely to a vector in the end. I’ll teach you the correct scan settings to use, and several professional methods of cleaning up your raster watercolor image in Photoshop.

We’ll be exploring the Magic Wand Tool, the Eraser Tool, the Polygonal Lasso Tool, and I’ll show you how and when to use these tools to clean up your image. We’ll make sure to get a really cleaned up image so that our vector will turn out nearly perfect every time!

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating the prep work that you need to do in order to vectorize watercolor artwork. These methods will work not only on watercolors, but also on any other type of artwork that you scanned in, fabric that you scanned in, or images from online or from your computer.

Vectorizing watercolors is a great way to learn how to convert a raster image to vector. Watercolors can be very varied in color, tone, and level of contrast. So we’ll learn what areas are easy to clean up, what areas are more difficult, and how to handle them.
I’ll also show you how to separate different parts of your image in case that you might want to play around with your elements to create a new artwork arrangement or a repeat!

Then in the next video Part 2, we’ll be bringing our cleaned up image into Adobe Illustrator for the actual vectorization!!!

I know you may want to get to that part quickly. But make sure you watch Part 1 all the way through first! Knowing how to scan and clean your artwork properly is the foundation for successfully converting a raster image to vector and getting a great result later. Trust me- you won’t regret it!

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