designers: what do you use to convert raster images to vector images?
 

i've been using magic tracer but i'm looking for something else

photoshop has it

are you talking about the "counter trace" filter?

for decent results manual work in corel or illustrator is the must

You better spend some time and do it with your hands

use photoshop man easy

Import the pic as background in Illustrator or Freehand then draw the contours by hand....

the latest illustrator (CS2) has a decent filter built in.
use that and then tweak. I suggest.

corel also has a feature that can convert image to shape (when it is in shape, it is in vector)

nope it's not filter man. you can derive to what output you want to do in many ways. you can control + select the raster image and then convert to path.