Vector questions

[pharoah007]

So as I understand it an Image must be "vectorized" before making it much larger in order to avoid artifacting ect ect...

So how do I vector an image using P-shop, Gimp or a link to a good on line program that does it for you?

all advice is appreciated. m I am much better with photoshop, I just have Gimp to view .psd on my laptop (P-shop is on my desktop)

Thanks all

[t3design]

Vector magic is an online service that actually works very well. There is a charge to download finished product but it is reasonable.

Once it is vector you need vector software to edit or manipulate it. Photoshop has a vector element in the path function but it is not vector software.

Illustrator is an example.

T3

[pharoah007]

Vector magic is an online service that actually works very well. There is a charge to download finished product but it is reasonable.

Once it is vector you need vector software to edit or manipulate it. Photoshop has a vector element in the path function but it is not vector software.

Illustrator is an example.

T3

thanks for the input.

So what I understand from this is that P-Shop is not able to fulfill my needs in regards to creating a vector OR manipulating it

[Le Chuck]

Vector magic is an online service that actually works very well. There is a charge to download finished product but it is reasonable.

Once it is vector you need vector software to edit or manipulate it. Photoshop has a vector element in the path function but it is not vector software.

Illustrator is an example.

T3

thanks for the input.

So what I understand from this is that P-Shop is not able to fulfill my needs in regards to creating a vector OR manipulating it

Not quite, you can create and manipulate vector images in photoshop using Paths but photoshop has a limited arsenal of tools to handle vector images as it is primarily a raster editor.  Illustrator is designed for working with vector so it's easier and to tools are better.  I do a lot of vector work in Photoshop.  If the image is only 4 color or less I'll just layer the parts I need, create paths, and export as needed.  For a full color image needing to be vectorized I'll use a service or drop into illustrator and start tracing and recreating as doing that in photoshop becomes very cumbersome based on how paths are handled by the software.   

If you want to stick with Pshop google: vectorize in photoshop or vector tutorial photoshop and you should get some useful results from the myriad of Pshop websites out there.

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Techniques-Creating-a-Vector-image-in-Photoshop-5,8,101a.html is a good place to start