It’s still looking rough, but that’s okay it’s nothing that Illustrator can’t handle. Illustrator and Image Trace to the rescue The highlight slider is your friend any time you have to get rid of any light grays that shouldn’t be in the final image. The middle (gamma) slider alters the mid-tones: move it to the left and they lighten up to the right and they darken. Bringing the left (blacks) slider toward the middle ensures that any pixels to its left turn completely black. Note where the sliders ended up in the histogram. Next was a Levels adjustment layer, to make the darks black, the mid-tones dark, and any leftover light smudges invisible. The first step in Photoshop was to clean up extraneous marks, smudges, and visible cut edges of tracing paper-easy enough using the Spot Healing brush and the venerable “Dust and Scratches” noise reduction filter. There wasn’t time, so Adobe Illustrator would have to do the heavy lifting with Image Trace. Tracing with the Pen or Pencil tools was out of the question. Because the finished product needed to retain a slightly rough-hewn look, I need to clean things up without making the final vector version look too polished. But it wouldn’t be a major problem for Photoshop and Illustrator in combination. Here’s what one part of it looked like at 100% in the original grayscale image: Mike sent me a 600 ppi scan of an outline version. Meticulous inking wasn’t an option, given the time constraints, so the digital tools at my disposal were going to substitute for a tech pen, stat camera, and time. My work started with the first “serious” sketch. The first rough wasn’t for vector conversion, but was enough to get all concerned excited about the idea: the Vitruvian man in the negative space within a collage of living things. Could I turn whatever he came up with into a multi-purpose vector file really, really fast? Of course I could. We make a good team.Ī little while back, Mike got a call from the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization-a non-profit founded by the late Lawrence Anthony, the famous “ Elephant Whisperer.” They needed a logo for a new ecology-centered education program that was already on the launch pad. Despite our similar tastes and sensibilities, we live in separate design worlds: I’m the computer-savvy Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator ninja in his world, “cut and paste” involves an X-Acto knife and rubber cement, and his MacBook is strictly for email. Every so often, we get to collaborate on a book cover or an identity program, and have way too much fun. Work fine.I have a close friend, Mike Manoogian, who is a brilliant lettering and logo design artist. The PDF export dialog offers many options. Limit export to object with ID: Only export the specified object. Output page size: Lets you choose which part of the drawing to export to PDF.īleed/margin: Increases the size of the exported area by adding a margin of the selected width. Common values are 96 dpi for screen display, and 300 or 600 dpi for printing. Resolution for rasterization (dpi): The higher the value, the more fine-grained the ‘photos’ of filtered objects will be. If you do not select this option, objects that are filtered will look different in the PDF. That way, the drawing will still look the same in a PDF. This option tells Inkscape to make a ‘photo’ of any objects/areas in the drawing that have a filter. Rasterize filter effects: Blurs, shadows and any other filters cannot be used in PDF. If you’re writing on a thesis or another scientific document, and know how to work with LaTeX, you can make use of the third option Omit text in PDF and create LaTeX file. When the text is mostly decorative (as in a logo), it’s better to convert the text to paths. Text output options: If your text needs to be searchable in the PDF and the font license allows you to embed the font, choose to Embed fonts. If no specific version is required by the persons who will get the PDF file from you, you can leave it at the default 1.5. Restrict to PDF version: Current choices are 1.4 or 1.5. PDF file format supports a different set of features from the SVG file formatĪ dialog will then allow you to set the following options: Never save as PDF only, but always keep an SVG file, because the
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