I have a logo that I need to send to the guy who is going to cut my graphics that is in bitmap form. The guy cutting the vinyl says he needs a vector image.

How hard is that to convert?

6/7/2013 12:06:43 PM

It's completely dependent on the type and quality of the raster image.

In other words, it's way easier to convert a high resolution picture of a circle than a low resultion photograph

6/7/2013 12:40:32 PM

Try this out: http://vectormagic.com/home

6/7/2013 10:33:21 PM

Very easy to convert, very difficult to convert well.

bitmap = pixels, vector = vectors.

think of it like drawing a picture using only dots, then asking how easy it is to automatically turn that into a line drawing.

6/8/2013 1:02:13 PM

Quote :

"it's way easier to convert a high resolution picture of a circle than a low resultion photograph"

wouldn't a circle be impossible?

(note: i don't know the particulars of vector imaging, so maybe there's a way of defining curves)

6/8/2013 1:55:25 PM

I think the key there is he said high resolution circle.... You can define something the approximately a circle... For example a regular octagon is more circular than a regular hexagon. You can define a shit load of sides and have a reasonably round object

6/8/2013 2:59:49 PM

bezier curves

and yes, i know it's not technically possible, but it'd be so close you wouldn't notice

[Edited on June 8, 2013 at 3:50 PM. Reason : ]

6/8/2013 3:41:39 PM

import into illustrator and create a new layer. Trace over it in illustrator.

6/8/2013 4:20:52 PM

^^ and ^^^ it is actually possible. Illustrator and some other vector tools support raster to vector conversion, and using their simplification and smoothing tools you can actually get a circle out the other side of the process.

But its not automatic in any way shape or form.

6/8/2013 8:38:49 PM

If the guy is asking this question, I think you're assuming a bit much when you're telling him to use Illustrator.

Vector Magic is probably his most viable solution.

6/26/2013 11:21:27 PM