[hgilbert]

Hi,

I used Inkscape as a final solution to the stylisation of photographs.
Some photos we took came too dark, or even distorted.
So we went for the process of redrawing / retracing vector by vector.

Stylisations. Here are my examples

Kitchen Sinks

From this:


kitchen sink original photo


I made into this:



From this:


another kitchen sink original photo


I made this:


this kitchen sink with a luxury taps gets stylised in Inkscape

More examples (without the original photo)

Mineral Water Bottle


plastic bottle with mineral water

Jug of Ice Water


jug with water and floating ice

The last two examples were the hardest.
Reflection is very hard to achieve with Inkscape.
And what is even harder than Reflections? Light Blur and Refraction!

I used Inkscape. And used Gimp to crop and save it to jpegs.

[JOhannski]

Wow amazing!
The kitchen sink looks way more futuristic!
How many colors does the svg have? And is every color like as big as the picture? I tried to use vectorize bitmap once and there the color paths were way bigger than the needed to be.

Was your workflow at the and of the pictures ok, or did inkscape make problems? If not, could you tell me on what computer you worked on?

Really great work, must have been lots of work!

[hgilbert]

I did it by hand. The process took me weeks to complete.

I used Linux.

I used many layers - over 20+. So yes, in the end Inkscape started becoming very very slow.

It's the blur that makes Inkscape slow. It was very hard, but very good practise.

[JOhannski]

You did this all by hand :shock: Now I'm really amazed!
I was sure that you used an automatic vectorization, especially at the jug of water. This is so realistic and perfect, I love the reflection at the bottom and the outline of the upper part, wonderful!

[hgilbert]

Hi my friend.

I did it by hand.

Here it is:
Download Original File
(270kb -Zip/SVG .. extracts to 1.5 Mb)

Please note: The original Inkscape file can only be used for self-study purposes only
Can't be modified and/or attributed to someone else
As it is copyrighted to the client. It now belongs to him. 2011 © Simon Richards.

Self-note: Must learn how to write Copyright terms & uses on document header, etc!

[GimpentoshFX]

At fist I wondered where your version of the last two was!

[alexstandiford]

Incredible! How did you make the sink look so much lighter with Inkscape? I know how to do it im GIMP, but frankly I'm clueless with Inkscape.