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can a photoshop file be changed into vectorised artwork?
Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to change a photoshop file into vectorised artwork? My client has designed their logo in Photoshop from scratch and has given me his original file. I thought I could have taken it from here to Illustrator as vectored artwork but it’s still a bitmap…. is there anyway of getting around this without having to redraw the logo?
Am I making sense….?
Marcella
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I had a similar thing and was told its not possible, but not 100% sure
Simon
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Hi
As I recall Photoshop PSD files can contain both vectors and bitmap images. However, if it’s designed as a bitmap then you will need something like Adobe Streamline or the Live Trace feature that replaced it in later versions of Illustrator. I have Flexi and it’s an integral feature.
Macky D
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Can you post a pic of the logo. It may be possible depending on what was done. Also does the Photoshop file contain layers or is the artwork flattened?
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Hi Marcella
Is it quite a simple logo or does it have fades and effects and such.
If it is quite simple it is possible to select each of the colours in turn and convert the selection to a path.
Then the paths can be exported into Illustrator as a vector, albeit a rather scuffy one.
I have a video file I have posted on here a couple of time that takes you though the whole process however the guy in the video tends to over complicate the whole thing.
I’ll try and find it on the boards if I can
Paul r
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In Photoshop, select your image using the magic wand tool.
From the paths menu choose ‘Make Work path’
From the paths menu choose ‘save path’
From the File menu choose ‘Export’ then choose ‘Paths to Illustrator’
That should sort you.
You may want to play around with your magic wand settings to get a nice clean selection. 32 is the default setting
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Looks like your gonna have to redraw it Marcella,
What everyone is saying is to vectorize the bitmap anyway, and as everyone knows that can be more trouble that its worthSimon
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In most cases you’re right however, depending on how the logo was constructed it is possible to create paths from the layers or as suggested traced with the magic wand tool.
Illustrator CS2 live trace feature is also an option if the Photoshop resolution is high enough.
It has been my experience that when a client creates a logo themselves it usually means trouble.
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Hi
Macromedia freehand as a tracing tool. Thats if you have Freehand.
D
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Hi
I have a few specialised tracing programs mainly for engineering drawings and also the likes of streamline. If it is black and white or relatively simple, if you want to email it to me I will get you a vector file for it.
The other alternative is to trace it manually, or get Vectorwise to do it from here, ask Rob. 😀 -
Send it to vectorwise, it’ll save you time and money
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Thank you guys!!!!
The logo and text has been designed to look like it’s 3d chrome effect, so there’s millions of shading and shapes etc. It looks great actually, but only good for printing as it is!
I’ve since managed to get them to send me the typeface used which is a big help but the logo part is gonna have to be redrawn. I could manage it without spending too much time I reckon, but just wondered what I could do in Photoshop to save me a bit of time.I’ll read through these hints again and see what I can manage!
If I can’t do something in Signlab I’m lost, I don’t use anything else!!! 😕
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Why don’t you just outline it and print lam then cut Signlab does a good job of contour cutting stuff like this.
Goop
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Marcella- I sympathize- I sometimes wanna outlaw customer artwork. But I do have a trace feature. But here’s an alternative I have used. I export it out of PS as an eps file, then I import it into my cutter software (VE LxI) Usually I have to ungroup it and get rid of the stray bits, but it’s faster than re-creation. Oh, and add a bit on the tab for your time! 🙂
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Thanks for the tip…. I’ll keep that in mind and try it out next time. In this instance the customer is having it redrawn themselves now in a suitable format. The advantage there is that they are meticulous with their logo so if they provide artwork that does need redrawn in any way, then they can’t complain!! 🙂
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