Smoothen a scanned graphic

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

Hey Newsgroups,

at the moment we are working on a school project called CINeVENT. We got a guy who drawed a quite nice logo (well, we like it) and now, for printing reasons of course, we have to transpose it to the pc.
Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

The first one is obviously the scanned image. The second one was now my photoshop try.
It tried several things, cutting out, filling, correcting manually etc or the classical "Gaussian blur, than adjust levels" trick, but none of them leads to a smooth, good looking logo as you can see on http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/ . So, got any hints?
so long
Thorben

You have the same link for both. Is there a link to the "smooth, good looking logo?"

Logos are best created in a vector program like Illustrator or Freehand. However, Photoshop has been making significant progress in the vector arena, so it could be done in Photoshop too. I would use the Pen Tool to trace the image, or perhaps even use the Type Tool for the text, assuming you can find a close match to the font. If you have the "smooth, good looking logo", you can increase the resolution, make a selection, smooth the selection and create a custom vector shape by opening up the Paths Palette and clicking on the tiny triangle at the top and choose Make Work Path…

Then go to Edit > Define Custom Shape. This will place the vector image in your Custom Shapes folder which can be accessed through the custom shape tool. It will be the very last one.

Peadge 🙂

Peadge 🙂

why not just rebuild the logo IN photoshop?
doesn’t look like it would be that hard, based on the sketch.

do it in grayscale, at as big a resolution as you will ever need (or bigger) and then reduce it for the web…

the circle/arrow thing might be tricky, but probably not as tricky as cleaning up this sketch.

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"Peadge" wrote in message

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

Hey Newsgroups,

at the moment we are working on a school project called CINeVENT. We got a guy who drawed a quite nice logo (well, we like it) and now, for printing reasons of course, we have to transpose it to the pc.
Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

The first one is obviously the scanned image. The second one was now my photoshop try.
It tried several things, cutting out, filling, correcting manually etc or the classical "Gaussian blur, than adjust levels" trick, but none of them leads to a smooth, good looking logo as you can see on http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/ . So, got any hints?
so long
Thorben

You have the same link for both. Is there a link to the "smooth, good looking logo?"

Logos are best created in a vector program like Illustrator or Freehand. However, Photoshop has been making significant progress in the vector arena, so it could be done in Photoshop too. I would use the Pen Tool to trace the image, or perhaps even use the Type Tool for the text, assuming you can find a close match to the font. If you have the "smooth, good looking logo", you can increase the resolution, make a selection, smooth the
selection and create a custom vector shape by opening up the Paths Palette and clicking on the tiny triangle at the top and choose Make Work Path…
Then go to Edit > Define Custom Shape. This will place the vector image in
your Custom Shapes folder which can be accessed through the custom shape tool. It will be the very last one.

Peadge 🙂

Peadge 🙂

Peadge wrote:

Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

You have the same link for both. Is there a link to the "smooth, good looking logo?"

Logos are best created in a vector program like Illustrator or Freehand. However, Photoshop has been making significant progress in the vector arena, so it could be done in Photoshop too. I would use the Pen Tool to trace the image, or perhaps even use the Type Tool for the text, assuming you can find a close match to the font. If you have the "smooth, good looking logo", you can increase the resolution, make a selection, smooth the selection and create a custom vector shape by opening up the Paths Palette and clicking on the tiny triangle at the top and choose Make Work Path…

so, as far as i got you, you’d advise to just retrace the image, create a vector out of it and go on with the vector, sounds good, well, I fear my mouse is going to be a problem but lets have a try. Or a tablet.

Thorben

Michael 23 wrote:

why not just rebuild the logo IN photoshop?
doesn’t look like it would be that hard, based on the sketch.
do it in grayscale, at as big a resolution as you will ever need (or bigger) and then reduce it for the web…

the circle/arrow thing might be tricky, but probably not as tricky as cleaning up this sketch.

well, our graphics guy did so, but it looked very cold and sterile so I tried this approach to get to the result.

t

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

Hey Newsgroups,

at the moment we are working on a school project called CINeVENT. We got a guy who drawed a quite nice logo (well, we like it) and now, for printing reasons of course, we have to transpose it to the pc.

Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

I like it just as-is.

??? http://elearning.winona.edu/jjs/tmp.gif ???

Peadge wrote:

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

Hey Newsgroups,

at the moment we are working on a school project called CINeVENT. We got a guy who drawed a quite nice logo (well, we like it) and now, for printing reasons of course, we have to transpose it to the pc.
Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

The first one is obviously the scanned image. The second one was now my photoshop try.
It tried several things, cutting out, filling, correcting manually etc or the classical "Gaussian blur, than adjust levels" trick, but none of them leads to a smooth, good looking logo as you can see on http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/ . So, got any hints?
so long
Thorben

It is nice to give sound advice. But Thorben, you should leave this to a designer. It should be done in Illustrator like Peadge says. Big advantage of vector is you can enlarge it without being punished. Agreed Photoshop has made improvements on that, but Illustrator is still what you need. Having time on my hands I am willing to give you a hand.

steg

Thorben Grosser wrote:

Michael 23 wrote:

why not just rebuild the logo IN photoshop?
doesn’t look like it would be that hard, based on the sketch.
do it in grayscale, at as big a resolution as you will ever need (or bigger) and then reduce it for the web…

the circle/arrow thing might be tricky, but probably not as tricky as cleaning up this sketch.

well, our graphics guy did so, but it looked very cold and sterile so I tried this approach to get to the result.

t

Yes that is a problem, a vector image can look too sterile. But there are ways to avoid that.

steg

jjs wrote:

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

Hey Newsgroups,

at the moment we are working on a school project called CINeVENT. We got a guy who drawed a quite nice logo (well, we like it) and now, for printing reasons of course, we have to transpose it to the pc.

Here is now what we got:
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

I like it just as-is.

I agree:)
But what about the size.

jjs wrote:

??? http://elearning.winona.edu/jjs/tmp.gif ???

actually I am quite impressed. which with sw did you do that one. Our crayon sketch had some features like taller arrows and just different ratios

What bothers me is that the life gets lost in vectors (where you managed to keep it alive what I appreciate.

I like the http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/CinEvent-01.gif but due to the fact that the image is scanned and the original has been drawn by crayon lets the borders look like i dont know what.

Great work you did 🙂
Thorben

Nice rendition!

Peadge 🙂

"jjs" wrote in message

??? http://elearning.winona.edu/jjs/tmp.gif ???

"Thorben Grosser" wrote in message

jjs wrote:

??? http://elearning.winona.edu/jjs/tmp.gif ???

actually I am quite impressed. which with sw did you do that one. Our crayon sketch had some features like taller arrows and just different ratios

What bothers me is that the life gets lost in vectors (where you managed to keep it alive what I appreciate.

With some technique, some ‘life’ or hand-stroke-like features can be created with vectors. Maybe I will have time to knock off some examples.

just take a look at what our graphics guy did, I am quite satisfied with the result

http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

t

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:47:23 +0100, Thorben Grosser
wrote:

just take a look at what our graphics guy did, I am quite satisfied with the result

http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

t

What, what. what is the point on such a simple thing.

Donald Link wrote:

just take a look at what our graphics guy did, I am quite satisfied with the result

http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/cinevent/

What, what. what is the point on such a simple thing.

the point was: how getting it from scanner to pc