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Converts a Raster Logo into Vector base logo

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One of the most common problem of a web designer is when the clients fail to provide the vector format or high resolution copies of their logo, and that’s when we need the power of Vector Magic. This is a web base software which is available Online and after a few months they also developed a Windows base software too.

In case you haven’t learned or heard about what is Bitmap/Raster images and Vectors. I’ll explain  the very basic understanding for each type.

Bitmaps

Raster images or Bitmap are being defined by pixels, it can also be used for prints by creating your subject on a higher DPI (dot per inch) platform, but the higher the DPI the higher the file size will be, once you finished your raster work, it will never have the same quality when you re-size it to higher multiplicand. (this is a common format on the web and photographs)

Vectors

Vectors are mathematically-defined geometric shapes-lines, objects and fills, they are being made by mathematically putting together nodes and points to create a shape which means resizing a vector image will multiply the factor according to how much you wanted them to be. (This is useful on printing such as a 20 foot billboards without losing quality and running out of storage for file size.)

For more information about Raster and Vetors you can visit an Article from Design Was Here

Now lets start using the software. We are going to convert a logo into a vector using Vector Magic Desktop Edition

First, find a logo which you wanted to convert into vector, find something which is pixelated or in low resolution. as for this article I’m going to use the Starbucks logo.

Open the vector magic and drag the logo inside. Once the logo is accepted three options will appear on the right hand side., you can choose from Fully automatic , Basic and Advance. For this project we are going to choose Basic.

After processing, vector magic will ask you about the image type of the uploaded image. choose Logo with blended edges.
The next option is about the Quality of your image, I choose High for my this project.

The next step is choosing the color mode. Two colors – the output will be in black and white. Fixed colors – will give you an option to pick the colors you wanted to see . Flexible colors – will convert your image automatically (this option is not recommended unless you are converting a photo.).

We are going to choose Fixed Colors. there are only 3 colors here. they are green, white and black, this option will give us the power to omit those other colors created by noise and pixels.

When you are finish, There are many options to save your work. you can save them into EPS , SVG or PDF.
You can also save them into BMP , JPG , PNG and TIF.
I choose to save mine to PNG with a scale of x4 (you can choose any scale you wanted even a hundred times larger.)

So that’s it, using the vectorized format I can do anything to the logo with Photoshop or Illustrator.

 


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