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    Posted by David Hammond on 12 November 2012 at 13:13

    Have a customer wanting their van doing.

    Supplied this JPG, quality is OK but I can’t seem to get auto trace to work very well, and it’s taking ages in Illustrator to vectorise.

    Anybody know a quicker/easier way that re-drawing it all.


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    Harry Cleary replied 12 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Stuart Davies

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    12 November 2012 at 13:26

    quick trace in inkscape might need a tweek and you can add the colours
    stu


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  • David Hammond

    Member
    12 November 2012 at 13:27

    Perfect Stuart.

    Much Appreciated.

    I’ve tried drawing by hand, rounded rectangles, the lot, was driving me insane.

  • Steve Hooper

    Member
    20 February 2013 at 00:01

    I realise this is an old thread but for future reference, Smart Fill in Corel would do this very quickly and with probably less clean-up than trace. 🙂

  • Nick Minnery

    Member
    21 February 2013 at 15:35
    quote Steve Hooper:

    I realise this is an old thread but for future reference, Smart Fill in Corel would do this very quickly and with probably less clean-up than trace. 🙂

    I’ve just tried to use that Smart Fill function, as I was interested to use it in future. But couldn’t do it with the above logo, it just drew a square around the image 😳

  • Steve Hooper

    Member
    21 February 2013 at 15:43

    My mistake… 😳

    I have used it several times and thought it would handle this bitmap but it doesn’t.

    Sorry to get your hopes up… Someone show me the way to the humble pie, please. 😳

  • Nick Minnery

    Member
    21 February 2013 at 16:35
    quote Steve Hooper:

    My mistake… 😳

    I have used it several times and thought it would handle this bitmap but it doesn’t.

    Sorry to get your hopes up… Someone show me the way to the humble pie, please. 😳

    No problem Steve, thought I was just doing it wrong! 😉

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    21 February 2013 at 17:05
    quote Steve Hooper:

    My mistake… 😳

    I have used it several times and thought it would handle this bitmap but it doesn’t.

    Sorry to get your hopes up… Someone show me the way to the humble pie, please. 😳

    Sure harry wouldn’t mind sharing his with you Steve

    http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … 890#439890

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    21 February 2013 at 17:18
    quote Martin:

    quote Steve Hooper:

    My mistake… 😳

    I have used it several times and thought it would handle this bitmap but it doesn’t.

    Sorry to get your hopes up… Someone show me the way to the humble pie, please. 😳

    Sure harry wouldn’t mind sharing his with you Steve

    http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … 890#439890

    😀 😀
    Tis all gone Martin, stale crumbs!

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