VECTOR Self Portrait

16 Colors

3 Colors

Sketch Art

Raster: 

A raster is an image made on a dot matrix that is filled with colored pixels and varies in saving formats.

Vector: 

A vector is a method of electronically coding graphic images.

Converting a Raster image into a Vector image: 

An image that was saved as a raster on Adobe Photoshop can be converted into a vector image in Adobe Illustrator. You can do this by opening/placing the raster image in the vector program. Once you scale your image, you may trace your image onto the vector program, converting the original into a vector.

My Process:  

I modified my original self portraits in Photoshop to increase their saturation and their contrast. Then I traced them in Illustrator to convert them into vector images instead of keeping them as raster images. The pictures above are of images I traced on the vector program. The first image was traced using only 16 colors, the second was traced using a Sketch art option, and the third was traced using only 3 colors.