Images_June_2020_Digital_Edition

STEP-BY-STEP: CONVERTING A LOW-RES IMAGE INTO A VECTOR LOGO 2 Right-click on the image and, from the Context menu, go to Outline Trace and select Low Quality Image. This will bring the image into PowerTrace 5 On the Colors tab, it’s possible to change the colour model to a spot colour to instantly create spot colour separations Using the Settings tab, control the amount of Detail and Smoothing, as well as Corner Smoothness. Here you can also remove the background 3 On the Colors tab, you can also reduce the number of colours in your image. This can be done by deleting the colour or merging it with another similar colour (a highly effective technique for reducing the colour count when screen printing or vinyl cutting) 6 Start by importing the customer’s logo file. This may be a low-resolution JPG pulled directly from their website 1 By adjusting the level of Detail, it’s possible to clean up the image and review fine details such as the hair and moustache 4 8 Finally, upsample the image to really clean up the fine lines and details by choosing either the Illustration or Photorealistic option. Roger selected Illustration for this piece Once text is added to the design, the file is ready for customer approval before it’s prepped for final production 9 After going through the colour reduction, the next step is to make fine adjustments as needed in the Adjustments tab. Here, you can remove any JPG artefacts that were caused by the file compression process when the original web JPG file was created 7 www.images-magazine.com TIPS & TECHNIQUES JUNE 2020 images 29