Vectormagic

[David Rowland]

what is it?

[Liam Keen]

its an image vectorization tool

[Shane Drew]

http://vectormagic.com/home

Looks interesting, but I do my own in corel. Takes me no time at all.

Looks a bit like deepetch, who specialise in photos. Similar software I’d suspect. http://www.deepetch.com/

[Liam Keen]

i recently got the desktop edition, i use it to vectorize logos and images before outputting them on the gerber edge, seems to be a really good bit of kit that suits my needs and is simple

[Jason Xuereb]

We use it daily. Were on I think $15 for three months using the web based version.

Best deal going around.

[Liam Keen]

yeah a great bit of kit, as im fairly new to graphics im not sure what other ways of getting a logo or image onto omega composser without having loads of cleaning up work to do from scanning it or open a jpg.
is it the best way to get an image done quickly and well?

[Jason Xuereb]

yep.

although illustrator, corel have their ways of doing it vector magic will gives you cleaner results especially useful for print and cut applications where you need a small logo and don’t want to chase it up.

[Liam Keen]

one question i have with regards to the use of it is, when i put the image into composser it goes across in all unknown vinyl colours and i have to manually change it to set the right vinyl and foil colours, which is a nightmare as id like to just set the vinyl to white usually and use process colours to match the original image colours

[TimHarding]

Great bit of kit use the full version…very good at quick work using the one click option…sometimes need to manually redo depending on the quality of the image being used but overall very good.

[Peter Normington]

I havnt tried vector magic, I find that using the plug ins that now come with signlab, (free or very cheap to download)
are as good as any, no vectorising program can do it perfectly, if the original is crap. so the result will need a certain amount of tweaking.

I regard them as a time saving tool, but not reliable for precise output

Peter

[Craig.Tiley]

I found that Vector Magic is an awesome tool that saves oodles of time then send it to Signlab for the finishing touches and very user friendly 😀 Unfortunately i don’t have it anymore, such a shame 😥

[David-Foster-]

I think Vector Magic is great. I used to have to rely on all the other tracing programs, mainly Corel. I took a deep breath when I paid $299 for it, especially with the current exchange rate but you can install it on a PC and Mac at same time.

The best bit is that each colour is an individual shape and separate. All the other programs seem to layer the colours. (I haven’t explained that well, it’s Sunday morning :))

Craig, can’t you get it again? What happened to it?

[Craig.Tiley]

quote David-Foster-:

Craig, can’t you get it again? What happened to it?

I was using it in Iraq it was the Army’s copy it is second to none at making emblems it shaves off hours of work as long as you have the settings correct to your specifications and another great thing is that it saves your settings. I will definitely buy again but at the moment its not highest priority. Worth every penny 😀

[Owen Lees]

Being the nerdy type I just had to see what this was like so I just tested a simple logo file against X4, vectormagic, illustrator and flexi.

Bearing in mind I used the web upload version and that I don’t as a rule use anything other than myself to do vectorising I was pretty impressed with the results that vectormagic provided – it produced a crisp result which I would have been happy to take and make final tweaks to and cut.

It struggled a little on some fine text, but then so did all the apps I tried – but for shapes and lines (which are usually what we need to vectorise as type is pretty straight forward to copy) it came out very well.

Its certainly something I would look at if I didn’t redraw almost everything anyway. But for a quick tool if you dont have anything or lack the skills to do redrawing then it looks good to me.

Oo

[Steve Underhill]

Vector magic desktop edition is amazing, better than corel, illustrator and any other tracing tool.

I use it all the time, it does have limits but you can even ainbt bits and fills in yourself

I wouldnt be without it.