Any help appreciated

On 7/22/06 11:07 AM, in article ebrwg.3846$, "Blaker" wrote:

Hello- I have a design that I created and modified several times with vaious programs and use for my company letterhead and business cards.
I sent the file out- saved to .eps as requested, to get new job signs made and the company informed me that the "image resolution is to low" and
"We would need it in the vector format that the logo and text was created in."
Any ideas???

Thanks
Roy

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It sounds like you created the artwork in Photoshop EPS which is not the EPS format that the print shop was requesting. They want something created by Illustrator that can be scaled without loss of quality.

You’re probably going to have to bite the bullet and recreate it using Illustrator.
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In article <ebrwg.3846$>, "Blaker"
wrote:

I sent the file out- saved to .eps as requested, to get new job signs made and the company informed me that the "image resolution is to low" and
"We would need it in the vector format that the logo and text was created in."

Any ideas???

Yes. You need to start over from scratch; the file you have now is worthless. But first, you should probably get up to speed on the difference between "vector" and "raster" graphics.

There are two ways to do graphics in a computer" "vector" and "raster." Raster graphics are made up of little squares of color, called "pixels." A raster graphic has a resolution. You can not, with any means and by any program, increase the resolution of a raster graphics image without losing quality; you can not make detail that is not already there.

A "vector" graphic is not made of pixels. It’s made of mathematical descriptions of shapes and lines. You can take a vector graphic that is the size of a postage stamp and enlarge it to any size you want–you can make it fill a billboard if you want–and it will not lose any quality.

Programs like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Paint, and so on, are not vector programs. They are raster programs (though Photoshop has some limited vector capabilities). If you create a logo in a program like Photoshop, you have made a mistake, and sooner or later you will find that you have to start over and re-make it from scratch.

Things like logos should be made in vector programs. Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand (now owned by Adobe) are vector programs.

You need to get a copy of Illustrator and redo your logo.

Sorry…

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in article ebrwg.3846$ wrote
on 07/22/2006 8:07 AM:

Hello- I have a design that I created and modified several times with vaious programs and use for my company letterhead and business cards.
I sent the file out- saved to .eps as requested, to get new job signs made and the company informed me that the "image resolution is to low" and
"We would need it in the vector format that the logo and text was created in."
Any ideas???

Try this…

http://www.artistmike.com/VectorizationService/1.html

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:29:45 -0700, mike
scribbled:

in article ebrwg.3846$ wrote
on 07/22/2006 8:07 AM:

Hello- I have a design that I created and modified several times with vaious programs and use for my company letterhead and business cards.
I sent the file out- saved to .eps as requested, to get new job signs made and the company informed me that the "image resolution is to low" and
"We would need it in the vector format that the logo and text was created in."
Any ideas???

Try this…

http://www.artistmike.com/VectorizationService/1.html

You’re still trying to hawk your shitty services? Has anyone ever been dumb enough to pay you?

On 7/22/06 1:56 PM, in article
, "tacit"
wrote:

You can not, with any means and by
any program, increase the resolution of a raster graphics image without losing quality; you can not make detail that is not already there.

Not so fast there, tacit.

Some time back, a lot of my fantasy football logo clients were asking for high-res versions of the low-res artwork I created for them to be imprinted on shirts and caps.

So I developed a way to take my 100×100 pixel, 72 dpi cartoons, (without redrawing them and with only a small effort), turn it into a 12"x12" 300 dpi version perfectly suitable for t-shirts, caps, business cards, letterheads, whatever.

It takes foresight and planning, but it can be done.

But it’s my trade secret. :-))
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

In article
<C0E805BB.86000%>,
Wizard of Draws wrote:

Some time back, a lot of my fantasy football logo clients were asking for high-res versions of the low-res artwork I created for them to be imprinted on shirts and caps.

So I developed a way to take my 100×100 pixel, 72 dpi cartoons, (without redrawing them and with only a small effort), turn it into a 12"x12" 300 dpi version perfectly suitable for t-shirts, caps, business cards, letterheads, whatever.

It takes foresight and planning, but it can be done.

But it’s my trade secret. :-))

So you’re asking people to believe this can be done, without providing any information that would let us evaluate whether or not what you say is true?

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On 7/22/06 5:13 PM, in article
, "tacit"
wrote:

In article
<C0E805BB.86000%>,
Wizard of Draws wrote:

Some time back, a lot of my fantasy football logo clients were asking for high-res versions of the low-res artwork I created for them to be imprinted on shirts and caps.

So I developed a way to take my 100×100 pixel, 72 dpi cartoons, (without redrawing them and with only a small effort), turn it into a 12"x12" 300 dpi version perfectly suitable for t-shirts, caps, business cards, letterheads, whatever.

It takes foresight and planning, but it can be done.

But it’s my trade secret. :-))

So you’re asking people to believe this can be done, without providing any information that would let us evaluate whether or not what you say is true?

Yes, but I suppose you could ask some of my fantasy football clients if you wish. All of those logos are created initially at 100×100 pixels as that is what they pay for, and only later would they come back to me to ask for caps and shirts. I don’t sell caps and shirts anymore since my supplier was bought out and the larger company decided small runs were not profitable. But the technique has come in handy many times when a client required the image at a later date that was larger than their original project.

I will say that it is easy, doesn’t require any special software other than what I normally use to create my cartoons: Illustrator, Photoshop and Streamline. It requires the use of layers in Photoshop.
I cannot take an image supplied by someone else and do it, so the technique does have it’s limitations.

I believe anyone reasonably proficient in Photoshop can figure out the technique if they think about it a bit and work the way I do: http://www.wizardofdraws.com/main/demo1.html
—
Jeff ‘The Wizard of Draws’ Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:29:45 -0700, mike wrote:

in article ebrwg.3846$ wrote
on 07/22/2006 8:07 AM:

Hello- I have a design that I created and modified several times with vaious programs and use for my company letterhead and business cards.
I sent the file out- saved to .eps as requested, to get new job signs made and the company informed me that the "image resolution is to low" and
"We would need it in the vector format that the logo and text was created in."
Any ideas???

Try this…

http://www.artistmike.com/VectorizationService/1.html

CorelDRAW X3 has also got a ‘Trace Bitmap" facility

Dave

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