Logo..from hand drawn to prof..what process?

[Hazey]

I have a logo that a fellow member has designed and hand drawn for our local camera club. It looks unprofessional and needs to be digitized to make it professional looking. We don't have a budget so to speak yet so I would like to have a go at it myself. What program would help me best? If I can't do it, who do I look for to get it done elsewhere? Graphic designer?

[Anke]

Illustrator probably, Photoshop at a push.
Have a search around as there are many free programs that can do work just as good. There's possibly a Sticky here on POTN somewhere.

[Hazey]

Thanks Anke....I do have photoshop...just not the know how.:) Don't know if I have illustrator.
Is is called 'digitizing' or am I barking up tthe wrong tree? Obviously it needs to be 'traced over' but unsure how to do that.
Maybe I should get a pro to do it...just unsure what to look up.

[Anke]

Thanks Anke....I do have photoshop...just not the know how.:) Don't know if I have illustrator.
Is is called 'digitizing' or am I barking up tthe wrong tree? Obviously it needs to be 'traced over' but unsure how to do that.
Maybe I should get a pro to do it...just unsure what to look up.

:D If you had Illustrator you'd know about it because it would've cost you a lot of money :D There is a facility in the program to Live Trace an image, so you would do that to your scanned picture of your logo. Not quite sure how you'd go about that in PS though, I hope someone else can give you some more guidance. Good luck.

[TeeJay]

Is it possible for you to put up a scanned copy of the hand-drawn graphic, so that we have some idea of the end result you are trying to achieve?

TJ

[Anke]

Is it possible for you to put up a scanned copy of the hand-drawn graphic, so that we have some idea of the end result you are trying to achieve?

TJ

Good idea, someone might even quickly Live Trace it for you.

[Hazey]

Thank you for the suggestion. If anyone is able to without too much time invested, I would be very grateful.
Hard to tell how much work is involved.:cool:

[craiglee]

this would take about 15 minutes in illustrator

[Hazey]

Is there anyone out there in POTN land who would take the 15 minutes and digi this in illustrator if I ask REALLY nicely? Pretty please? I don't think I can justify spending hundreds on illustrator for a 15 minute job. I imagine it would take me hours too as I am clueless.:lol:
Anyone?

[TeeJay]

I dont think that looks too bad. Surely if you just "tidied up" the lines it would be ok? No?

TJ

[Hazey]

Teejay..that's all it needs...but I don't know how to do that even. Suggestions?

[sevillafox]

You'll have to fix the colors and mayble clean the edges (eraser and/or paintbrush) a bit but here you go.

[conkeroo]

I didnt draw the eye or the beak in cos it looked bad but give it a go if you want to. So here you go! ;)
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

[craiglee]

didn't want to hog all the fun. someone else can finish.

http://i36.tinypic.com/r8dvee.jpg

[Hazey]

Thank you all soooo much! They look great! And hopefully I can combine them together in photoshop in layers so I have the best pieces of all three.
Did you all use illustrator to do them?
I REALLY appreciate the time you have all taken to help me out...thank you!

[black_z]

What are you guys doing to it to make the edges so smooth?

[metalicson]

What are you guys doing to it to make the edges so smooth?

Assuming these were all made in Illustrator, they are all smooth because they are vector images. They are made of up paths and not drawn lines made of pixels.

[conkeroo]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

[Boogedy]

I am a serial lurker on this site--funny that something non-photography related made me post. :) Anyways, I had some free time on my hands today and decided to give it a go:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/Boogedy/Logo1.jpg