Redrawing Imported Graphics.

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Lynn_Hoagland
May 10, 2004
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Does anyone have a recommendation for which tool to use to redraw graphics/logos that are not print ready? (Magic Wand?) Most graphics are tif, jpg, bmp and gif that are fuzzy due to inadequate dpi. I am using Photoshop 7 for Windows on WinXP. Thanks in advance – L

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Phosphor
May 10, 2004
Illustrator. Manually.

Hands down, better than trying to make paths from any kind of raster selection.
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The Magician
May 10, 2004
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Does anyone have a recommendation for which tool to use to redraw graphics/logos that are not print ready? (Magic Wand?) Most graphics are tif, jpg, bmp and gif that are fuzzy due to inadequate dpi. I am using Photoshop 7 for Windows on WinXP. Thanks in advance – L

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by "redraw". And I’m not exactly what you would call a "seasoned
profesional…but I worked for a promotional items company that put company logos & artwork on awards, apparrel and other items. But unfortunately most of the artwork submitted by the customers were unusable. They’d send in bad .jpgs, tiffs, etc. (we neede either crisp camera ready art or vector art for laser engraving machines, etc.)
So we used to actually REDRAW them using mostly CorelDraw or Illustrator, by importing the bad art,
and redrawing it on a transparent layer above.
Occaisionally you could get away with using the CorelTrace program inside of CorelDraw. Atually while writing this a gave it a quick whirl in Photoshop with the pen tool. You can even just create a new layer on top and draw over the original with the pen tool, then either stroke the path or fill it with a color.
It’s all kinda painstaking…but do-able.
Not sure if that helps you…but it’s a try…
The Magician
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Don_McCahill
May 11, 2004
And the beauty of what Phosphor suggests is that now you have the logo in vector format, and can scale it to any dimension without losing quality. Nothing worse than cleaning up a 2" logo and then having to do it over again when the need comes for a 5" version.

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