And you can save the file in Vectoraster’s editing format for later reference. When you have found the trick, though, the effects can be used to spice up some serious video and film work. As there are so many of them, it will often require some effort and time before you get the right mix. For example, you can create a wave effect, but where do you start? For starters, you’ll need to decide which parameters to change and how much.
However, to obtain just the right effect may require more trial and error than with static raster art. The results can be quite spectacular, especially when used as a background or in composite images and animations. Point shape, size, stroke and fill are all adjustable, as is the raster pattern itself, while raster distortions and utilities let you further fine-tune the results.įor animation purposes, which is the big new feature in Vectoraster 8, you can change every parameter over time using keyframes in a simple user interface that, despite its user-friendly nature, does give you access to advanced settings such as animation ease-in/ease-out curves.
The resulting rasters can then either be exported as vectors to EPS or PDF files, as images to JPEG, PNG, or TIFF, or simply copied. The raster patterns and point shapes can be freely configured to produce different styles. Much of this boils down to trial and error and it’s easy to experiment with Vectoraster until you find the desired outcome. Vectoraster is a graphics utility for creating vector-based raster patterns and halftones based on images or gradients. All of these have their own settings, including the ability to vary parameters which is often essential to render the raster as a recognizable variant of the source.įor example, a photo with the subject shot against a very light backdrop - more or less rendered as a silhouette - will not be instantly recognized as a portrait using the default circles settings, but by changing the points to small stars or characters and tuning the smallest and biggest size, the portrait gains more detail and ultimately becomes a playful variant on the original. The raster itself can be a circle, a box, polygon, star, pill form, alphanumeric character from any font on your system, and more. These sources can be used together in one project, each on their own layer, allowing for intricate designs. For starters, you can create a raster for a photo, text, a gradient or a noise source. With Vectoraster 8, you have control over pretty much every parameter you can think of when creating rasterized images. The animated results can be exported as MOV or MPEG4 video files or as a sequence of frame files. Vectoraster 8 also lets you animate all these effects to create transitions, video backgrounds and other effects. The results can be exported as vector images or bitmaps like JPEG, PNG or TIFF.
The Vectoraster app lets you change the halftone patterns and point shapes and vary them across the pattern to produce many different styles. An introduction to Vectoraster 7 for Mac OS, a graphics application for creating vector halftones, rasters and patterns based on images or dynamic gradients. The dark areas of an image become points, while the light areas become white space. Vectoraster is a graphics utility that allows you to create custom vector halftones and line rasters. The images were halftone line rasters and they looked coarse but with a special appeal. Use the batch processing feature to apply rasters directly to all of the images within a directory.For those of you who are too young: rasterized images were used once in newspaper printing to quickly and cheaply render an image in B&W on a fast rotary printing press. Options include vector export to EPS and PDF files, as well as Bitmap image export to JPEG, PNG, and TIFF files. When you're finished with your image, you can copy the raster curves directly into most other vector graphics software. Plenty of options let you really set things like raster point color, outline mode, point weight, as well as varying parameters like size, point aspect, or even shape contraction.Ĭhoose from six different configurable raster pattern types such as alternating grid, radial, and varied density distribution.īesides rotating and offsetting your raster pattern, you can apply four raster distortion modes: twist, bulge, wave, or split the pattern.
You can choose from many different point shape types (circles, polygons, even imported custom shapes), and even use characters as point shapes from any installed font. You can generate vector graphics (or point or line raster patterns) based on your images. So what is Vectoraster 5? What can it do for you? Well, the program can take bitmap images and help turn them into vector-based raster patterns and halftones.
And with the powerful graphics utility called Vectoraster 5 for Mac OS X, the fun (and fabulous images) keep on coming! Yeah, designers really do have all the fun. Playing around with images can be a blast.