Hi guys, I dont know if is the place to ask this question as is has to do with creating artwork for making t shirts for a tow company whos truck I just lettered...... Well I'll ask anyway because I believe alot of you do shirts also as well as make signs and maybe youll have an answer. The customer already had shirts made up with his town trucks on the back of the shirt. Black ink on a gry shirt. 1 color No big deal. 1. He lost the artwork. 2. I am not willing to trace by hand a picture of his tow truck and basically turn it into line art so I can make a screen. 3. I dont have a clue how it has done any other way. I have spent countless hrs turning the image (shirt) to this color and that color......scanning it this way and that way........I dont get it . Needless to say my piece of crap software (ANAGRAPH design art pro) cant do it..... maybe no software can. I dont know how its done who does it and how do find someone who does. Well my question is ...... Am I just lazy to not sit down and trace this truck...... Or am I right in thinking there has to be an easier way...
PS If anybody can reccomend a place that will do the artwork,digitize it or whatever the hell is done PLEASE . Id love to give them the business.........
whew......... Rich
Posted by Ivan D. Otero (Member # 1924) on :
Well I have Sign lab and when I can Scan it can turn it into a Vectorized lines can you send me a bitmap. It works better when there is a good contrast among the colors. If your too lazy to do that (just kidding)then talk the guy into something custom made from you and tell him how much better yours is I do it all the time when I know the time and effort isn't worth it. I turn the tables and create a new deal one in which works in my favor. Learn to herd the cattle.
Posted by Rich P (Member # 1789) on :
thanks for the offer Ivan. I am actually considering buying SIGNLAB. I got hooked reading all theese posts on the Vinyl Master Pro and fooled with the demo. Im not that thrilled with it. I just wish Sign Lab wasnt so expensive.
Anyway. if I send it would it then need to be cleaned up...... (the bitmap that is.) the Bitmap is only 2 colors gry and black.. thanks again
Posted by VICTORGEORGIOU (Member # 474) on :
Rich, do you have Photoshop or something like it?
Do a color scan of the image, take it into Photoshop. The black hopefully will contrast to the grey. Select the black and turn it to white. Then reverse select and set everything else to black. Now when you run your vectorizer, it will be able to find the lines.
Signlab has a color vectorizer as an option. This would allow you to skip the above step.
I'm a Corel man, but I have spent enough hours on Signlab to believe it is a very capable program that would serve you well. Signlab 5 vectorizes much better than Corel 7. Never did side by side tests with later revisions. Vic G
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
sign lab is not that much better than design art pro for scanning .....if design art cant do it then i dotn think sign lab will do it either.. i own design art,, its not that bad.. and ive used signlab. .
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
What Vic said! But select all, turn up the brightness & contrast, then maybe the grey will become white, then vectorize. If your making shirts, skip vectorizing & just print to vellum or acetate from a bitmap file. Clean up with a sharpie marker & xacto, burn a screen.
Then again since you should be getting $50 - 60 bucks an hour, why not trace it? Could be fun!
