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[fawndog]

I consider you Barfers to be the top percentile of the general population. So when I address you as Ladies and Gentlemen, please don't fly off the handle, do burnouts on my lawn, or kick my pittie George W.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the point.

I'm looking for recomendations for image vectorizing, I have a jpeg that needs to be vectorized in eps format for laser engraving. Who's good at that sort of thing ?
Thanks, -notafm199

 

[Ezekiel]

According to Wikipedia these are the programs that can convert to EPS for you. I can do it for you this evening if you'd like to email it to me.

Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop (later versions)
CorelDRAW
Cytoscape
FlexiSign
Ghostscript
GIMP (requires Ghostscript)
GNU Octave
IDL
ImageMagick (requires Ghostscript)
Inkscape
InPage
LibreOffice Draw
Macromedia Freehand
Maple
Mathematica
MathType
Matlab
OmniGraffle
OpenOffice.org Draw
PhotoImpact X3
QuarkXPress
R (programming language)
Scribus
Swift Publisher
Xara
Xfig

 

[fawndog]

That would be perfect, cuz you're a gun nerd :cheers

I mean Gentlemen Gun Nerd

It also has to be vectorized, apparently another process

 

[Yakoo752]

just use this

http://www.autotracer.org/

 

[fawndog]

Ok then, should I talk to a different engraver ? (Maybe this guy isn't the best choice)

 

[Yakoo752]

Ok then, should I talk to a different engraver ? (Maybe this guy isn't the best choice)

not all eps files are vectorized though

so...

here is a good tutorial on how to convert the file in gimp

http://imgur.com/gallery/xL0Ba

I assume it's single color should it should be easy-ish

 

[Ezekiel]

That would be perfect, cuz you're a gun nerd :cheers

I mean Gentlemen Gun Nerd

It also has to be vectorized, apparently another process

I was going to use photoshop on it...but apparently that is not a 100% vectorized file?

 

[fawndog]

No, my only jpeg file is in color. It looked like a 3 year old did it when I ran it through the online converters.

 

[Yakoo752]

No, my only jpeg file is in color. It looked like a 3 year old did it when I ran it through the online converters.

mine did the same :thumbdown

 

[Ezekiel]

I PM'd you my email, send me the file and what dimensions you need it at and I'll see what I can do.

 

[revnort]

I was going to use photoshop on it...but apparently that is not a 100% vectorized file?

You can use PS and output as EPS which will be a vectorized file. Well, if you are using shapes in PS to trace the image.

No, my only jpeg file is in color. It looked like a 3 year old did it when I ran it through the online converters.

It is not as easy as using a tracing program. Almost all of them are going to take a bitmap image and make it look like a watercolor, or worse. The resulting file will have tons of unnecessary information in it.

I haven't seen the photo so it is hard to say how much work it is to hand trace, or clean up by hand after running through an auto trace. The simpler an image is the easier it will be, like a logo. If it is an actual photo then some artistic interpretation is needed to make it look good in vector.

 

[spddrcr]

I make single color decals all the time from multiple color images. coreldraw has one of the best tools to turn a jpeg or gif into a useable vector. inkscape also works very well and is free. photoshop is not where you want to be outputting vectors from.

 

[fawndog]

I make single color decals all the time from multiple color images. coreldraw has one of the best tools to turn a jpeg or gif into a useable vector. inkscape also works very well and is free. photoshop is not where you want to be outputting vectors from.

You want to have a crack at it ?