Creating Vectors from AI-Generated Silhouettes in Adobe Illustrator

in today's video I'll show you how I use Adobe Illustrator to create vectors from AI generated silhouette images first

let's generate our silhouette images the free option is to use stable diffusion Forge UI installed on Windows you'll

need a good Nvidia card to run it smoothly I'm using the Juggernaut XL model for the prompt I'll test it with a

cute cartoon cat wearing a hat using these settings for the style I'll choose silhouette from the Styles I created

which you can download and use too here's an example of what I get I'll also try it for a cute dog wearing

glasses but with stable diffusion sometimes I get line art instead of a silhouette as you can see I have a lot

of art styles here if you want to install them look for my video titled 260 art styles on YouTube in the pinned

comment you'll find a download link from where you can get the art styles if you have the paid version of chat GP plus

you can generate even better silhouette images click on explore gpts and wait for it to load then search for

silhouette artist and look for the GPT named silhouette artist and crafter it has a vertical pen icon and is created

by me you can start the chat and let's try the same thing a cute cat with a hat maybe something for Halloween this

time keep in mind that you are limited with Dolly to 30 messages for 3 hours but the good part is that it can produce

uh really cool silhouette images I'll also try for uh a cute dog with glasses if you click on an image you can find a

download button on the top right that allows you to save the image to your computer if we compare all the generated

images Dolly is a little better at creating clean and modern Silhouettes but it's not free like stable

diffusion you also have an info button that lets you see and copy the prompt let's open Adobe Illustrator and create

a new file I'll make it 10 24 pixels for both width and height then you can drag or paste your image or use place to

insert your image inside illustrator after placing and positioning the image you'll see a

button called image Trace which only appears when an image is selected um click on the Arrow next to it and select

one for testing it can be silhouette or any other style then click on this button to open the image Trace panel

here you have different sliders that you can adjust I like to check the option to ignore a color usually white uh you can

use the eyedropper tool to click on the color you don't want to appear as for settings I've saved a uh preset that

works for me uh you can you can save it from this menu as you can see it allows you to save a preset I use threshold 111

paths 85 Corners 89 noise 17 you can also check simplify if you want I I selected ignore white for color uh save

this preset to have it uh then click on uh expand to create the vector if you look at the layers um you can see that

we now have Vector paths representing the image so now you can select the path move the points around and adjust it as

you want um and you can also change the colors now if changing the color turns it gray uh

you can open the swatches and apply a color from there let's uh create a new document and

test again for the dog I made with stable diffusion place the dog inside illustrator then from the image Trace

Arrow select the previously saved settings you can click expand or you can go to the panel and adjust more settings

if needed as for example those fine Lin can be removed using the noise setting play around and see what settings work

okay for you but for me uh I pretty much use the same settings all the time click expand and you'll have the vector

dog right now it has 479 points U but we can reduce that number by going to path and selecting simplify now it says 245

points so uh half of what it had and uh you can play with the slider but most of the time the automatic option does a

good job um you can edit the paths now for example um if you don't like the eyes you can select them with uh the

direct selection tool and and delete them uh then with a circle you can create some new eyes arrange them so

they are centered on the the artboard go to the file menu and choose save as from the types you can choose different

Vector formats like AI EPS PDF and a popular one is SV G give it a name and press save then in this window put these

settings type convert to outline Advanced options put presentation attributes and for decimal places use

three click okay and you have your SVG file saved as you can see now we can open the SVG file with the browser and

it's pure Vector I also have another GPT created for colorful cartoons if you go to explore GPT and search for cute

cartoon characters you can select the one with the cute orange animal head and start the chat I designed this one to

generate characters isolated on a white background making it easier to cut the background and create PNG images from it

as you can see it can create some cute and nice characters for