Vector Graphics

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Tom Whicker
Feb 10, 2006
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Aloha from a "newbie"

How can I convert a standard 2-color Photoshop image into a vector graphic image to be used for a logo. I need to have them stiched onto shirts but must submit them as a vector graphic file, I have never been so clueless before in my life. I’d appreciate any help that can be offered.

Come to Hawaii and I’ll give you a personalized tour, not the kind you get from a tourist company.

Tom
Kailua Hawaii

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Mike Hyndman
Feb 10, 2006
Come to Hawaii and I’ll give you a personalized tour, not the kind you get from a tourist company.

Tom,

What an offer!! 😉
Re your question, how’s your Pen tool skills? To convert an image to vector you need to draw around the object, see below for a couple of tutorials.

http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/vector.asp
http://www.layersmagazine.com/design/vector_photo.php

As an aside, Tom, if you are including your email address in you postings, you need to modify it to fool the spambots. Otherwise your mailbox will be full of viagra salesmen, rich Nigerian princes who can’t get their loot out the country and fake Ebay/Paypal messages asking you to resubmit all your finacial details.

Okole malune

Mike H
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Chris King
Feb 11, 2006
Tom,

You can use Adobe Illustrator to convert it to a vector image, although it may not look *exactly* like the original, depending on the complexity of the original. If it’s a logo-like image with mostly hard edges, it should convert very well; if it’s more like a photo graph, with a lot of gradients and complex areas, it may look a little "posterized" after you convert it. The feature is called "Live Trace".

If you have Flash MX, it has a "trace bitmap" feature that will convert to vector, too. It works about the same as the Illustrator method, and allows you to save the final result in a variety of formats, including .ai (Adobe Illustrator).

Hope this helps!

Chris
South Florida

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