Wilson Hines Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 This is a total newb question. Please forgive me in advance for wasting your time with such a question. I have tinkered with Illustrator and Photoshop over the years. I understand the lingo and the differences between pixel and vector based graphics. While I just don't want to fool with Adobe anymore, I'd like to thank Serif for the Affinity applications. If I am working on a logo (see attached) and I use Designer to do the donut, star, letters, but I go to the web and find reasonably high-resolution images to work with for NC state silhouette, the tower (the radio signals are vectors from Designer), and the flags, what's going to happen when I go to expanding this logo and so forth? Are the pixels converted to vectors and therefore they will work appropriately or am I going to have issues with pixelation in the non-vector parts of the logo? I will bite the bullet and create this stuff from scratch if I need to, but good LORD the time savings! Thanks again, Wilson Hines Graphic Beginner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Designer does not have a vector tracing facility, so wont convert pixel art to vectors. There are online vector tracing services, https://vectormagic.com cost 8 dollars a month but you only need one month there are several similar services or you could download and use http://autotrace.sourceforge.net or inkscape, which has a pretty good tracing feature and would certainly do that. That's what I use. https://inkscape.org/en/ Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Hines Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 5 hours ago, toltec said: Designer does not have a vector tracing facility, so wont convert pixel art to vectors. There are online vector tracing services, https://vectormagic.com cost 8 dollars a month but you only need one month there are several similar services or you could download and use http://autotrace.sourceforge.net or inkscape, which has a pretty good tracing feature and would certainly do that. That's what I use. https://inkscape.org/en/ toltec, thank for the hint. I went ahead and subscribed to vectormagic. If I did this everyday, that $250 app, which I previewed, would be worth every dime! Now that I have converted the image to vectors, of the available saved formats, what is suggested for what I am doing? SVG, EPS, or PDF? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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