Silhouette Plugin

Silhouette is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator, created to offer an easier way to convert bitmap images into vector ones.

The advantage of the latter over the former is that it is composed of multiple individual, scalable objects. This makes them render at the best quality, regardless of the resolution.

The Silhouette component integrates into Adobe’s tool and it allows effortless conversion of the images thanks to the quality tracing engine.

Even if it is designed for professionals working with should not be too difficult for less experienced users. Before starting the operation of creating a vector image some settings need to be configured.

Silhouette features the possibility to set the necessary tolerances as well as select the between a black and white or color logo.

Some image cleaning options are also available for refining the end result. Users can rely on correction tools that can accomplish the alignment of the points automatically or sharpen the corners and smoothing up the paths.

The result can be previewed before saving it so there is always the possibility to make adjustments.