Help with a vector drawing

Brizzles

Brizzles

Brizzles

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Hi.

I have found this image, which i would like to use half of as a cutout on my next PC project.

d482.gif


As you can see, its small and no good to me.

Can any kind soul make a vector image of just the left hand side snake that i can scale up to suit a case side panel.

Can't offer more than my thanks and credit in my next build log.

Would very much appreciate any help :)

Cheers,

Mark
 
DGarfield said:
How did you make that image so large & good quality from just a .gif? :S
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Yep, as Skippi said, with something like Illustrator, you simply open it up and lock it on the background, then use the pen tool to trace the outline.

Takes a little bit of practise, but after a while you can get pretty quick at it.

Once you have the image drawn in Illustrator, because it is made up of curves rather than dots, you can scale it as large as you like with no loss in quality.

I would imagine a graphic tablet would be a big help here too, but I dont have one of those, so it's the pen tool and good old mouse for me :)
 
DGarfield said:
How did you make that image so large & good quality from just a .gif? :S
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You can use the pen tool (Illustrator or Photoshop) to trace over the image with 'curves' - that way you can scale it to whatever resolution you want (1000x1000 metres even) without loss of quality. Curves are essentially mathematical formulas instead of pixels, so they are not tied to size.

As it's quite a clean image Illustrator has a nice cheat called 'live trace', which does this with only a few clicks.



The blue squares are points on the curve. The blue is the curves.


edit: mega beat :D.
 
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