Leave it to Stanford to blow my mind so early in the morning. Those darling, little geniuses have created an online tool called Vector Magic that will create a vector from JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, or TIFF files. It can output to EPS, SVG, or PNG. If all those things mean nothing to you then go the hell away. The best part of the whole thing is that it’s free! No longer will haggard designers have to spend the better part of their day tracing some stupid product image to turn it into a usable vector. Illustrator CS3 has a pretty advanced trace tool, but for those of us who don’t spend all day in Illustrator it can be pretty daunting, sometimes impossible, to get the image to vectorize properly. Stanford’s tool is fairly customizable and seems to hold up well against images of varying color and complexity. To give you a nice example the image for this post is a vectorized version of the image from the previous post, created with Stanford’s tool in about 32 seconds.
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