So, I've been given a hand-drawn, black and white picture (it's a concept for a logo) and I need it converting into a digital image (digitising? vectorising?). Are there services out there to do this? If so, would some one mind recommending one? I have no experience in this sort of thing so I'm pretty lost to be honest.
are you going to do it yourself? If you have Adobe Illustrator or something along the lines then just scan it in and trace the vectors over the image.
Live Trace in Illustrator will do the job, I can sort that out if you want (no charge just a thankyou). Email it to me, i'll PM you my address
I do this all the time with my work, scan it in and fire up photoshop, change the layer properties so that the image is no longer read only (italic text for layer names mean its read only, just rename it to change it). tap CTRL-M to open up the curvature properties and create a gentle S-shape along its default line tap CTRL-L to fire up the level properties and drag the far left arrow across to the right. this can bring out colour gradients in your linework if done harshly so just adjust the saturation with theCTRL-U hue/saturation properties window
If you want to edit it yourself you could try InkScape. I'm not sure if it can make a vector from a picture, though.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm not sure whether I could manage it myself, I'm certainly no artist. As FIBRE has so kindly volunteered to give it a go, I'll see how that turns out. Cheers!
Yup. - Import to Inkscape (free prog btw). - "Trace bitmap" - figure out what options you need - trace - ..... - PROFIT!
