Graphic design

[blue-eye-boy]

Hey all, just a quick question.

It's been a while now what I need a program to design Logos, screen prints, etc. I'm not in such business, but in our butchery I need this from time to time, when we launch new products, to design logos, banners etc that goes with it. Untill now I've always used Photoshop, but it doesn't seem to have all the tools availible to do the job.

What program would you suggest? Here's a portion of a name I've been battling with. It was a scan I made a few years ago, but couldn't get it "clean". So I want to redo it from scratch, but I need the same type of writing, looks, etc.

Thanks so long.

 

[Noseworthy]

Industry standard is illustrator

 

[Noseworthy]

Otherwise send to me and for s small fee I'll trace it for you

 

[Avenue]

get hold of the free program inkscape. For logos you want to use a vectorising program so that no matter how large you make it it wont pixelate. That said the above logo isn't that complex so I would just trace it using photoshop's vector tools. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

 

[Ianf1]

Try Vector Magic you get 2 free conversions

 

[Avenue]

Don't know if that's what you are looking for (first letter obviously)- took 6 minutes, using the pen tool in photoshop.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Hey all, just a quick question.

It's been a while now what I need a program to design Logos, screen prints, etc. I'm not in such business, but in our butchery I need this from time to time, when we launch new products, to design logos, banners etc that goes with it. Untill now I've always used Photoshop, but it doesn't seem to have all the tools availible to do the job.

What program would you suggest? Here's a portion of a name I've been battling with. It was a scan I made a few years ago, but couldn't get it "clean". So I want to redo it from scratch, but I need the same type of writing, looks, etc.

Thanks so long.View attachment 95887

if you want to clean that pic using photoshop, you can do it easy with the colour range select tool.

for big banners etc, you want something that works with vectors though, as it will stay sharp at any size. hence the illustrator suggestions. illustrator can convert that pic to vectors with little to no effort.

I would offer to do it, but i`m not a graphic designer.

 

[Fudzy]

Inkscape is a great freeware piece of kit for vector stuff. It will even convert bitmaps. I decided to challenge myself with my iPad and used iDraw to do this:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ik6xti7yg5sqsap/TPwa_miVdE

 

[Fudzy]

Sorry, I left some of the outlining on but importing into Inkscape or any other vector app that supports PDF will make it easy to remove.

 

[Avenue]

Another option in photoshop is to use the magnetic lasso tool with a low frequency. That an easy way to smooth the edges, and is quicker, (that must have taken 2 minutes) but the result isn't quite as good as the pen: (See the letter P only- A is what I did earlier with the pen) frequency = 20

 

[Fudzy]

Another option in photoshop is to use the magnetic lasso tool with a low frequency. That an easy way to smooth the edges, and is quicker, (that must have taken 2 minutes) but the result isn't quite as good as the pen: (See the letter P only- A is what I did earlier with the pen) frequency = 20

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There will still be a problem with scaling a raster image. I haven't used Photoshop in about 10 years and the selection to path tool was quite pants then. If it's improved then it is an easier way of tracing. If you have Photoshop that is

 

[Avenue]

There will still be a problem with scaling a raster image. I haven't used Photoshop in about 10 years and the selection to path tool was quite pants then. If it's improved then it is an easier way of tracing. If you have Photoshop that is

by George that wasn't a bad suggestion. My results are not 100%- needs a bit of tidying up, (as you can see on the first A) but certainly acceptable even without. and that took about 2 minutes to do everything

 

[Electric]

Just trace and convert to vectors with Corel.

 

[aybbleek]

Yeah Corel Draw or Illustrator for vector work and print media.

 

[Electric]

What was the program that came with older versions of Corel?
It scanned and automatically converted the lines to vectors.
You just had to finesse the vectors a bit.

 

[SWM]

What was the program that came with older versions of Corel?
It scanned and automatically converted the lines to vectors.
You just had to finesse the vectors a bit.

Are you referring to "Corel Trace"?

It's now been incorporated into DRAW.

 

[Electric]

Yes, that's the one.
I remember the last time I used Corel it was missing.
Didn't realize it had been incorporated into DRAW.
It's been a while since I've used Corel.

 

[Avenue]

I found corel to be one of the most confusing, unintuitive program I've ever used, just slightly better than blender. But then again that was 10 years ago, and I was just getting into the whole scene so things may have changed.

 

[web_dude]

dude... not sure how good you are graphics, but you can start with Microsoft Publisher...
if you grown up that one, you can move up to Corel Draw (latest version x6). Then after you can go for Illustrator or InDesign.

Butchery??? hey send some biltong to every one that reply to your question!

 

[Grizzly_za]

Vleislapa! Best butchery in Polokwane hands down