You could try plainclothes' suggestion, but personally I wouldn't count on Illustrator's live trace producing very usable results. Live trace has its limitations. Even the best live trace algorithms can't make a normal photo into a genuine illustration. Garador Garamatic Manual. When you compare the results from live trace to a hand-drawn illustration, it's quite obvious that today's software just isn't able to create sufficiently subject-aware outlines and color boundaries to produce passable results. Unless you feed the live trace algorithm an illustration to start with, it's just going to look like a photo that's been put through a live trace filter.

Paint by numbers free download. Number Paint brings modern technology to paint-by-numbers, a computerised paint-by-numbers program for the iPhone and iTouch. Download STOIK Color by Number. Convert your photo to a paint-by-number pattern. This program is suitable for all users who would like to create cross-stitch.

And that's not going to make a good paint-by-number outline. At the end of the day, artists and illustrators still serve a purpose. And to get the desired end product, you'll need to hire a professional illustrator to create a suitable painting/illustration that can be reproduced in paint-by-number style. If you don't want to spend the money to do that, then your best bet is probably to live trace some stained glass artwork. This is really more color-by-number, but it doesn't require an actual artist to manually create the outlines. Or I believe one of these would be the answer to such a question. Stoik's Color By Number is a $20 program (or a 15 day free trial) you can find at stoik.com that uses very easy steps: The Browse Tab - Pick the image you want to convert.

The Image Tab - Contrast, Brightness, Size, Posterize, ect. The Pattern Tab - Palette choice; Whatever color scheme you would like and how many colors you want to use. The Export Tab - Export; print, save, ect. The end result is a paint by numbers version of the image (just lines and numbers corresponding to colors) and a color map of what it should look like after you've finished painting. I don't know too much about Paint a Pic. It seems like it is relatively new.

Paint a Pic is a web-based application/service that'll cost you $50 an image that, after being processed, is sent directly to you in physical form. The end result is very similar to Color By Number, except lines are more defined, where as in Color By Number the lines are faint and blue so as to fade away easily as paint is applied.

How Paint By Numbers Started Most people could only dream of painting like Van Gogh - he became one of my favourite artists after reading 'Dear Theo' - and I wish I had learnt to paint from a paint by numbers kit. I might have learnt to paint a lot sooner. Here's a simple way to make your own paint by numbers picture, how to paint it and own a masterpiece based on a master artist. Critics would scorn the paint by numbers method, but it was the Paint By Numbers Inventor, Dan Robbins who noticed Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years prior, numbered his paintings for assistants to fill in.....