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I've been keeping my brain and my eye/hand co-ordination working lately by doing some vectorizing, just because I can and I find it fun. AND it IS fun once ya get into it!!!
Left is a 600 DPI scan, middle is the vectorized version, right is a wireframe view of the vectorized version.
I know, the smaller lettering is not a true reproduction, but truthfully, sometimes the old lettering was kinda sloppy!!
Might take a bit of time next week and vectorize the original small lettering too, OR might not!!!
Edited to say..sorry the image is slightly over size, but any smaller and it would have been tough to see.
[ June 07, 2008, 10:07 PM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
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Hi Dave! My brother had this idea of printing an image on clear vinyl with my Edge that would simulate a perforated vinyl graphic. I made a pattern of 82,834 1/16" circles spaced 1/16" apart. The pattern is 54.5" wide and 23.5" high. When I am ready to print I place the pattern over my image and assign it a spot color that is not in the image. Then just don't print that color. Results are the image with no holes and no laminating but looks exactly like perf.
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summer time...mtn bike, hike, swim and anything outdoors! winter...skate ski, hike, snowshoe and anything outdoors! all year round...play with the puppies!
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Umm Karyn, Eventually they're not puppies anymore yanno. But it's OK you can still call them puppies if you want to.
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Russ..I am using CorelDraw X3 and hand drawing over scans from an Atkinson Collection book.
(Opps, mis-read your question, not planning to do anything with it really. I just find it more interesting to play around in Draw then watch TV most of the time!! )
Same kinda thing as you did with the Griffin, which is EXELLENT! (might just dig up a bitmap of a griffin and vectorize one of them too) And like you, it keeps me outta trouble and off the streets!!!
This was today's project. Took about 4 hours to do.
The thing I like is figuring out all the features of Draw so that the vectored image has no overlapping, intersecting lines and there is no use of pen outlines that graphic artists, who produce things for the print industry are so fond of using!!!
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Neat stuff. See, Dave, you can retire and go to Mexico but it is still hard to get signs out of your blood. Love....Jill
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Dave, that's some nice work there. A service you could offer online and make a few bucks, from just about anywhere on the planet. Appyvector Inc.
Jill..It IS tough to get sign stuff out of the system. But I have no intention of getting back into the trade.
After too many years of doing work that was sometimes interesting, but seldom that profitable, I "fell into" the sign business. It treated me extremely well for about 15 years and I was sad to have to shut things down.
But our love of Mexico and Shirley's growing disatisfaction with her job prevailed. There was no way I could operate a business and serve my corporate clients on a part time basis. Fortunately, our frugal (some would call us cheap!!) ways over the years paid off when it came time to make plans for retirement. But that is another story.
Duncan...I have, in the past, helped out a few folks with vectorizing projects that they didn't have time to do themselves. It has always been fun for me and, with the exception of one particular visitor here, has always enabled me to pick up an extra case of beer or two.
I am always ready to help out if I can, with advice and tips. But actually promoting services would be like being back in business again!!!
WAIT!!! What is the going rate to be a merchant here???
Steve...Are you reading this??? Spend a dime and give me a call!!!
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Oops! Forgot to say what I do in my spare time. Every evening I have a "golden hour" between 8:30 and 9:30 PM, when the house goes quiet and I tuck into my bed with a bodice ripper romance. I read at least two books a week, sometimes more. The puppy is beside me with her chew toy, and the cat is usually good for a drive-by nuzzling, always stepping across my paperback. It's my guiltiest pleasure. Love....Jill
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look at ugly light fixtures in stores dreaming up what I'd RATHER see
Time to go to work again and make the world a more beautiful place! 'Nuff of this spare time jazz..
(and I do dash off to the campsite when I'm not required to renovate nor work)
edited to add: Jill, I'm the exact opposite of you. I stay away from those soul mate books cuz it just makes me want one! I'm mourning the end of the Harry Potter series myself. Safe I tell ya, really safe those HP books...
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hey John, not sure how far you've gone with the experimentation of simulated perf printing, or if there are other steps you've included in your process that were not mentioned, but if you haven't already tried this, print black dots first, then overprint white dots covering the black dots, and then the 4 color process printing lands on the white dots, making it show up nice, even on dark tinted glass, while the black dots show up on the back side, allowing the eye to easily ignore the print & simply see through the perf.
Also, wanted to mention that Signlab has developed this process for easy use on the edge, in case that info is of interest to anyone.
My spare time goes to TV, and the internet. I don't surf as much anymore, so I got a stand-up paddle board which will get me out in the water more.
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In my spare time you'll find me in the yard, at the gym, at the beach, on my bike, in my kayak, socializing with friends, watching tv or surfing the internet.
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In my spare time I take a nice drive in my Corvette!
Then play golf!
Then drink Budweiser!!
Love that car Jim! Reminds me of the old Curtis Craft Midget nose piece in the 30's
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Thanks Doug, I didn't know that Signlab had already developed this method. As for the print process I use a 30% black first and then, like you said, I go over it with white and then the 4 color process.
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back in the day I used to take logos and change them in a vector format, like I took the "Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers" and created a new logo saying "Tanya's Old Fart Husband"... that's me! I also took the "Burger King" logo and made a "Curt Is King"! hahah. Now, if I'm not chillin' with the kids, I'm "adding a little lust to the funky a$$ Flea Bass"... that's a song... I like bass!
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I was at Music Stop a few weeks ago.. checked out Geddy Lee's custom bass.... hooked it up, played a few tunes.. and began to cry. That band is STACKED! and their gear is off the charts!
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hunting, fishing, poetry and songwriting. jam sessions, playing with my band. We have a lead and rhythm guitar, upright bass, mandolin and banjo...five of us, and we just starting working with a single studio mic....that is a LOT of fun.
Then between all that I'm checking out the bullboard, enjoying an occasional chat with telemarketers and waving at manikins......
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Does sitting on hold on the phone count? So far I'm 10 minutes in and their elevator music on speakerphone is clashing with my Prodigy and Rob Zombie.
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White water kayaking, cage fight training, water/snow skiing, mountain climbing, bill riding, skydiving, competitive shooting and gold prospecting.
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So Ricky is a prospector, huh? That deosn't surprise me! WE have a detector but don't use it much.
Spare time for me, not much lately, practicing glass work, combing the shores for fishing lures (tried metal detecting for them, didn't work!), building our cabin in the mountains, & I can relate to Jill in bed with her book! I always ahve a book to read for a few minutes before I go to sleep!
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For me it would have to be running ambulance calls and run with the local fire department. I enjoy taking classes at the local community college too. Seems when you don't need to take the class it is actually fun.
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