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Hello, all!

New to the forum and new to vinyl cutting.  I am looking for a program that will convert a picture to an outline like the ones below.  I have Cuts A Lot Pro 4, but still playing with it.  Is it able to do this or is it a different software?

 

Thanks!

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most design software has tracing functions and uscutter sells a program called graphics tracer - but with all of those there will be clean up and node editing needed to make them really good - working with vector graphics is a skill  - some of our members have been known to do a clean trace manually for a price

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on the dog pictures do you have permission from HAMMER & STAIN ROCKVILLE to reproduce their work?

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I think he's just using those as reference of what he wants. As Dakota said, most programs have a trace feature, but that's not going to give you the outline like you're wanting. You pretty much have to redraw it, or do a lot of editing of the photo before tracing it.

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Like others have said, autotrace is available in many programs, but it will often not get you all the way there.  Redrawing becomes nessacary on many images.  That said, a centerline trace might work better for at least the housing.  Your image, outline trace, centerline trace, your 2nd image, outlines trace from CorelDraw 2019.  I didn't spend much time on the settings.

 

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