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Converting a Jpeg to vector file
Well yet another customer who thinks print ready artwork means anything that looks good at postage stamp size…. we did a rush job for a customer last week who had his designer email over his artwork, should have checked it before sending it straight to print but took his word it was all sized and ready to go. Well sent it to print and went made a coffee to come back to a sheet of images that looked like some sort of artistic blur!!! Spoke to the guy who said it looked fine on his phone when he proofed it????? Anyway it all needs doing again but I need to get it converted to a vector before we go any further, is there anyone on here who can convert it or know anywhere that does at a reasonable cost?
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That’s got bevel effects & either a gradient or lighting effect which won’t work as a vector image.
If the customer want’s it done the way it is then the only thing to do is get the designer to send you a proper file. -
Is that prismatic effect not rendered as a bitmap David? I doubt you’ll get it as a vector file. He needs to create and save it as a decent sized file I would imagine.
edit: Martin got there before me! 😀
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Looking at the kerning I’d doubt if it was a designer that created it in the first place. 😕
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Thanks guys, looks like he’ll have to go back to the ""designer"" cough cough, to be honest it could quite easily have been done on one of them online design things that people are so found of…
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looks like its been done with alien skin plugin although Photoshop could probably do it as well
Kev
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Cheers Kevin, will try and recreate it a lot larger and see what we come out with, I wouldn’t mind but the artwork for the banner wasn’t to bad but the other stuff was terrible
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Sorry meant to ask which plugin? Just looked on the alien skin website and theres quite a few, can feel a spending spree coming on 🙂
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Looks like BEVEL BOSS and GRADIENT GLOW part of the EYE CANDY suite if I remember correctly.
Although the filters cost a few pounds, you can get all your investment back in a couple of jobs.
Some of the texture plugins are also excellent.
Dave
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Yeah Daves got it right was only a quick play so would need a few adjustments
Kev
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Cheers Dave, will have a look now.
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Cheers Kev
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Do they work with Corel?
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Harry
i think they work with Corel Paint.Kev
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Cheers Kev, I gave up trying to achieve that effect in Corel itself using the Bevel tools, that looks much smoother and more realistic.
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Hey guys, are the alien Skin effects similar to the eye candy effects in Signlab 9 do you know? Haven’t yet purchased the plugins for SL 9.
The alien skin stuff looks great.Lorraine
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quote Lorraine Clinch:Hey guys, are the alien Skin effects similar to the eye candy effects in Signlab 9 do you know? Haven’t yet purchased the plugins for SL 9.
The alien skin stuff looks great.Lorraine
Same stuff 🙂 You can use quite a few of the photoshop type plugins in Signlab (direct them to the right plugin path)
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Well splashed the cash and bought Eye Candy, what a great piece of software. Only really had half an hour of playing with it but you can produce some great looking stuff, I’ve redrawn the guys logo since his "designer" didn’t know how to make it any bigger. I’ll just add the cost onto his invoice for been such a prat, some of the other filters from Alienskin look like they could be well worth the money to.
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quote David.Smith:Well splashed the cash and bought Eye Candy, what a great piece of software. Only really had half an hour of playing with it but you can produce some great looking stuff, I’ve redrawn the guys logo since his “designer” didn’t know how to make it any bigger. I’ll just add the cost onto his invoice for been such a prat, some of the other filters from Alienskin look like they could be well worth the money to.
My most used ones are Gradient Glow, Shadow Lab, Bevel Boss.
One little thing to watch with the bevel ‘smoothing’ setting is NOT to set it to 100% (80-90% good enough) as it can create strange lines/panels on the surfaces of wide items that you are just putting a bevelled edge on. Also, you may notice that the colours can get dull after applying the filter… re-saturate them in brightness/contrast.
It’s all about playing with it…
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