[thelist] OT: My mistake (Was Rasterizing jpg Image)

Gregory Wostrel info at gwcreative.com
Wed Jul 30 11:25:41 CDT 2003


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:26  PM, Steve Abaffy wrote:

> My mistake, I misread the email. He said it would cost $15.00 to 
> vectorize
> the image, so the question is how does one vectorize the jpg image?


Steve,

Like any good printer, they are probably concerned about the (likely) 
poor quality (for print) of any jpg image. The way to do it (I am 
assuming that it is some sort of illustration/logo/line art type of 
thing rather than a picture of something) is to re-draw it in 
Illustrator (or Freehand is you are so inclined). Depending on the 
complexity of the piece this can take a little bit of time. But then 
you will have a nice resolution independent vector file. They can use 
this for going to press and scale it however they please and you can 
repurpose it as a .gif/.jpg at any size at will. Alternatively, you 
might try going back to you client to find out if there is a source 
graphic that the jpg was made from.


HTH
Gregory Wostrel

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