Publishing Talk Publishing Talk    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Need help creating vector art...          Publishing Talk Forum Index -> Publishing Talk View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Mikey Guest Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:17 pm    Post subject: Need help creating vector art... I am trying to create a piece of vector art from a photoshop image. It's kind of an 8 point starburst shape that starts solid in the center & fades to nothing. I have a small jpeg that I can email to anyone wishing to give their 2 cents worth. Any advice or help appreciated! Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor William F. Adams Guest Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:09 am    Post subject: Re: Need help creating vector art... On Jun 2, 4:17 pm, Mikey <texan...@hotmail.com> wrote: Quote: I am trying to create a piece of vector art from a photoshop image. It's kind of an 8 point starburst shape that starts solid in the center & fades to nothing. I have a small jpeg that I can email to anyone wishing to give their 2 cents worth. Any advice or help appreciated! Using which program? Corel Draw, Deneba Canvas, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe/Macromedia FreeHand? (or something else?) Roughly you should: draw the star first, then dupe it in place, shrink it very small to the center of the star, then drag all the nodes around to make a circle shape w/o adding or removing any nodes, then set the circle to the solid colour and blend it to the star. Adjust as necessary. William Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Bob Humphrey Guest Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help creating vector art... On Jun 3, 6:09 am, "William F. Adams" <willad...@aol.com> wrote: Quote: On Jun 2, 4:17 pm, Mikey <texan...@hotmail.com> wrote: I am trying to create a piece of vector art from a photoshop image. It's kind of an 8 point starburst shape that starts solid in the center & fades to nothing. I have a small jpeg that I can email to anyone wishing to give their 2 cents worth. Any advice or help appreciated! Using which program? Corel Draw, Deneba Canvas, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe/Macromedia FreeHand? (or something else?) Roughly you should: draw the star first, then dupe it in place, shrink it very small to the center of the star, then drag all the nodes around to make a circle shape w/o adding or removing any nodes, then set the circle to the solid colour and blend it to the star. Adjust as necessary. William If you have Illustrator CS3, it is really easy to do. You place the picture and use the live trace options and it turns your picture into a vector object. Then you can make it as large or small as you need to in Illustrator afterwards. If you don't have Illustrator CS3 then use another drawing program and just trace over your picture and fill it with the necessary colors or gradients needed. Bobh Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Mikey Guest Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help creating vector art... On Jun 3, 1:17 pm, Bob Humphrey <b...@chromatech.com> wrote: Quote: On Jun 3, 6:09 am, "William F. Adams" <willad...@aol.com> wrote: On Jun 2, 4:17 pm, Mikey <texan...@hotmail.com> wrote: I am trying to create a piece of vector art from a photoshop image. It's kind of an 8 point starburst shape that starts solid in the center & fades to nothing. I have a small jpeg that I can email to anyone wishing to give their 2 cents worth. Any advice or help appreciated! Using which program? Corel Draw, Deneba Canvas, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe/Macromedia FreeHand? (or something else?) Roughly you should: draw the star first, then dupe it in place, shrink it very small to the center of the star, then drag all the nodes around to make a circle shape w/o adding or removing any nodes, then set the circle to the solid colour and blend it to the star. Adjust as necessary. William If you have Illustrator CS3, it is really easy to do. You place the picture and use the live trace options and it turns your picture into a vector object.  Then you can make it as large or small as you need to in Illustrator afterwards.  If you don't have Illustrator CS3 then use another drawing program and just trace over your picture and fill it with the necessary colors or gradients needed.  Bobh Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't believe that would work - I wish I could post the image I'm trying to work with! Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Jono Guest Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Need help creating vector art... On Jun 3, 4:08 pm, Mikey <texan...@hotmail.com> wrote: Quote: Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't believe that would work - I wish I could post the image I'm trying to work with! You could give this online service a try, it creates very good artwork. http://vectormagic.com/ Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor phorbin Guest Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:50 am    Post subject: Re: Need help creating vector art... In article <af187f1c-4730-4e1a-a636-f9ff91ce6007 @l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, texan767@hotmail.com says... Quote: Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't believe that would work - I wish I could post the image I'm trying to work with! Put it on a web site or a picture sharing site and then post the url here. 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