Vectorising a cartoon Logo, help with any tuts out there??

KT
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Kasey_Taylor
Sep 22, 2008
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Hi,

I’m in need of a good tutorial so i can get the hang of vectorising a logo and be able to create asap.

The logo is a cartoon character and i need to create a vectorised colour version of it before thursday,

HELP please 🙂

Thanks
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KT
Kasey_Taylor
Sep 22, 2008
oh btw , using cs3.
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Fred
Sep 22, 2008
oh btw , using cs3.

Illustrator can easily do that. Photoshop however, can’t. If you have Illustrator, just open the picture and hit Livetrace. You can adjust your settings afterwards.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 22, 2008
Have you got Illustrator?

If not there’s always this:

<http://vectormagic.com/>
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Phosphor
Sep 22, 2008
In Photoshop you can trace off areas using the Pen tool and make them into custom Shapes, but this can get clumsy fast.

Illustrator or Freehand or another vector program would be a much better option. However, you won’t be able to learn these skills overnight.

As John says, vectormagic, but it isn’t free.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 22, 2008
Fancy me – the big Illustrator hater – not mentioning FreeHand!

I guess since Adobe killed it I don’t expect people to have it any more.

I will keep FreeHand MX until it won’t run any more.
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Phosphor
Sep 22, 2008
Is it really dead? Pity.

I hope Illy can adopt some of the features Freehand has. Multiple pages and the way the Color List (Swatches) are handled, but I doubt it will.
BL
Bob Levine
Sep 22, 2008
You won’t have to wait long to find out. Tomorrow is the CS4 announcement.

Bob
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dave_milbutucci
Sep 22, 2008
ooh! and today is my birthday! yipee! 🙂
BL
Bob Levine
Sep 22, 2008
Quick, someone go get cake!

Happy Birthday

Bob
DM
dave_milbutucci
Sep 22, 2008
🙂
DM
Don_McCahill
Sep 22, 2008
Tomorrow is the CS4 announcement.

Or is it the announcement of the announcement. Will they announce the features, or just the date when the features will be announced.

I’m being silly because they announced the announcement. Still cracks me up.
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Phosphor
Sep 22, 2008
Sign up just to view an announcement?

I don’ theenk so, Cisco.
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jcates
Sep 22, 2008
Or is it the announcement of the announcement.

Yahoo story I read last week (don’t recall the publisher) said Adobe is releasing CS4 tomorrow.

<gufaw>
BL
Bob Levine
Sep 22, 2008
I will keep FreeHand MX until it won’t run any more.

So will a lot of other people from what I understand. <g>

Bob
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Sep 22, 2008
Happy Birthday, Dave!

<Dave>Open the podbay doors now, HAL!</Dave>

Rob
DM
dave_milbut
Sep 22, 2008
thanks rob!
KT
Kasey_Taylor
Sep 22, 2008
So no help just borthday wishes???? I have illustrator too which i can do this i spose, but dont know how.
JM
J_Maloney
Sep 23, 2008
Google live trace. Basically you bring the image into Illustrator and trace it with vector shapes.

< http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/illustrator/ss/sflivetrace. htm>
KT
Kasey_Taylor
Sep 23, 2008
I need to have thick lines around the drawing and also fill sections with colour can i do both? Not sure if i want to do the shapes?? Unsure…..
KT
Kasey_Taylor
Sep 23, 2008
?
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Phosphor
Sep 23, 2008
I think you can do what you want, but it won’t be easy for a beginner. Maybe ask on the Illustrator Forum.

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