Calling Illustrator/CorelDraw/Vector graphic gurus

[nd]

I want to get a poster ("Nuke the Whales," from Nelson's room) printed based on some small jpeg's that I have. It won't scale to poster size for obvious reasons as is, so I think the best solution is to create a SVG version from scratch based on it since the picture itself is fairly simple.

I had a friend try converting it using some tool that would analyze bitmaps and create vector versions, but it didn't work with this image.

Original framegrab showing the poster

Poster part cropped and zoomed in

So I started trying to draw it using a vector drawing program, but quickly realized I lack the skills to do it efficiently. Any generous soul out there who's more experienced than me willing to help? How long would it take? I'd also be willing to pay someone if needed.. or perhaps donate some programming services, since that's more my thing.

 

[pulse8]

Why don't you just trace it in Illustrator?

 

[worth]

Here. This assignment helped me realize I lack any vector-drawing skills.

 

[nd]

Originally posted by: pulse8
Why don't you just trace it in Illustrator?

I'm not sure what you mean. Plus I only have access to Illustrator at work. In any case, if it were something trivial I'm guessing the friend I originally asked would have thought of it (but not necessarily).

 

[spyordie007]

I'm subscribing to this now so I'll look at it tomorrow, lots of Illustrator info to come when I have time at work tomorrow.

-Spy

 

[ThePresence]

I do vector art for a living. I do need a better image of the poster though if you can find one. Really tough to accurately recreate it from sucha low quality piece.

 

[nd]

Originally posted by: worth
Here. This assignment helped me realize I lack any vector-drawing skills.

Hmm.. I tried viewing it in Sodipodi for Gnome and it didn't really seem to render it correctly. I'll have to try it at work tomorrow.

I do vector art for a living. I do need a better image of the poster though if you can find one. Really tough to accurately recreate it from sucha low quality piece.

Unfortunately I can't find a better image. My friend tried using some automated tool to do it, but said the jpeg artifacts were messing it up. I figured this wouldn't be a problem if it were just manually recreated though -- the only problem is that it would require some artistic talent/insight to know what looks right in the hairy parts.

 

[ThePresence]

I may be able to do "something", but it'll prolly be a bit crude, being that I aint gonna spend 4-5 hours on it.

 

[pulse8]

Can't you just open the image in Illustrator and "trace" it?

You wouldn't have to make it from scratch, just copy what's on the jpg and enlarge.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: worth
Here. This assignment helped me realize I lack any vector-drawing skills.

Good god man, what are those things? Fetuses?

 

[ThePresence]

Can't you just open the image in Illustrator and "trace" it?

You wouldn't have to make it from scratch, just copy what's on the jpg and enlarge.

Yes you can, but it wouldnt do it too accurately from such a low quality image, and then it becomes a real pain to edit a vector group of 6745 peices.

 

[joohang]

Yeah. Your best bet is to put the bitmap in the background, lock it, and trace the poster yourself.

If your mouse skillz aren't too good, get yourself one of those touchscreen LCD monitors.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: joohang
If your mouse skillz aren't too good, get yourself one of those touchscreen LCD monitors.

do they have those at Radio Shack?



I guess everything that needs to be said has been said, you could try opening the image in illustrator and using the auto-trace tool. Than just copy and past the paths it creates into a new illustrator document and cleaning it up a bit (but you would have to play with it a bit for that)

Good Luck

-Spy

 

[nd]

worth,

I finally was able to view yours. Thanks! It didn't match it perfectly, but at least this is a good starting point for me.

And to everyone else, thanks for the suggestions. I might try manually tracing it.