How can I convert jpeg picture into a Microsoft clip art? I want to reconstruct and edit my picture, help!?

Question

I have a photo that I'm trying to edit. If its Microsoft clip art, I like that I can right click and edit the color and remove pieces that I do not want. Now I have a jpeg drawing of mine that I scanned. I want to be able to right click and edit my picture and move pieces, so how can I make it clip art or editable picture?

Answer 1

Short answer, you can't easily.



The JPEG is just meaningless pixels to the computer. Its a raster image. It doesn't know what is a "piece" and how the image is layered up, its just a grid of different coloured dots.



Clip-art are vector images. This means they're drawn and saved in such a way (using vectors!) that object of the image are saved separately and layered up, thus you can edit them easily as you've found out. Another advantage of vector images is they can scale indefinitely without losing quality.





Read through some of these...



http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_to_vector





HOWEVER, the open source program Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) is able to perform some Raster to Vector conversion which does work, but the quality of results depends hugely on the detail of the scanned image (less detail = more likely to be good). You can play with the thresholds, etc.

Answer 2

Convert Photo To Clipart

Answer 3

In Word, do File | Print, and select the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer "printer". Then print. Then select TIF file as the file type. You can then open that TIF file using another image viewing program (e.g. IrfanView) and convert it to JPEG or PDF or anything you like.