Question/Request for Photoshop/Illustrator Wiz (My sample added)

[mike boss]

Actually two things.

(A) Does anyone know a good site that will create a vectorized image from the posted flyer ?
I know several sites exist, some work better than others.
Any advice/info would be great.

I know of vectormagic.com & www.autotracer.org

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=5936

(B) I tried to remove the grey grid using Magic Wand in Photoshop and it keeps leaving a trace. I tried to remove the color, which had an even worse result. Anything I can try to get this grid pattern removed cleanly ?

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=256582&page=12&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

[JDFan]

For the CPO easiest method is to select by color with a very low tolerance so that it selects only that shade of grey deselect the misc. wrong selections using the rectangular selection tool repeat with the black. (the only real problem area is the Copyright notice text - but that should be typed in as text anyway rather than rasterized) Here is a copy of it done for you without the copyright text ( Wasn't sure if you what font to use for it so left it out. )

[mike boss]

Thanks JDFan, that looks great.
I'll DL that when I get home and clean up what I need to.
Again many thanks. I figured it was something EZ I was missing.

I can not wait to get my control panel done, I'm looking forward to my next project. The custom bezel will be the next thing I tackle.

Thank you

[Malenko]

you left a lot of grid around the gloves up part. I'd suggest using the polygonal lasso tool, zoomed in, work on 1 piece at a time. Cut it, past it in place on a new layer. once you have all the parts cut out, merge the layers you want to keep into 1 layer

[mike boss]

Aslong as the image above is still on a transparent background I can just go in and clean up any areas that need touched up.

Concept wise what I would like to do on my control panel is use the part with the gloves & guard around the joystick. I'll use the info box with the text as it appears. And what I would like to do (if I can) is mimic the look around the buttons and create something cool for my button cluster.

The control panel for my bartop will be a street fighter layout, 3 over 3.

[JDFan]

you left a lot of grid around the gloves up part. I'd suggest using the polygonal lasso tool, zoomed in, work on 1 piece at a time. Cut it, past it in place on a new layer. once you have all the parts cut out, merge the layers you want to keep into 1 layer

Yeah I noticed that after posting Here is a cleaned up version : (and yes it is still on a transparent background )

[mike boss]

Many thanks.

[JDFan]

Many thanks.

Mike I just redownloaded the pic and seems this forum changes the transparent background to black when I bring it into PS so Here is a zip file of the png and also a psd version just in case the png posted does the same to you !

[thatpurplestuff]

Honestly, with such simple shapes I would just trace the entire thing out as opposed to trying to lasso/wand tool or otherwise tweak it using raster-based tools.  With the amount of time you'd spend messing with lassos, wands, whatever you could just use the vector shape tools within Photoshop to recreate the elements and you'll end up with a cleaner and more accurate file.

After typing that I just went ahead and traced the shapes out.  I left out logos and text, but the layered TIF file still contains all of the vector shape data so you can move stuff around, resize, etc.  I did it very quickly so I didn't organize or name the layers at all, but you can figure out which layer is which just by playing around with it.  This forum doesn't allow layered TIFs so I just posted it to some random upload site.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/518949/punchout-tif.html

I also left the original image as a hidden layer within the file in case that would be helpful... also attaching a PNG to this post.

edit: there were a few replies between the time I clicked this thread and the time I posted, so I didn't mean to step on any toes regarding the files!

[mike boss]

WOW!

Thank you sooo much.
This is a huge help.

Thank you

[mike boss]

Thank you to everyone for your help in getting this artwork in shape for me.

For what it is worth I'll post my finished CPO and bezel (should it turn out ok).

Thank you

[mike boss]

This is what I'm working on.
Again many thanks to all for the help.
I'm not sure if I'm happy with this....yet.............

[mike boss]

I imported the flyer images into Vector Magic.
I was happy with the results.
I have a few more images I'd like to try on the site.
Then I can start on the bezel.

I'll need to go in and clean these up, but my PC time for the night is over.

[mike boss]

If anyone has any feedback on the CPO I'd love some input.
Tonight I'll work on cleaning it up.
And I'm not sure I like the elements around the button cluster.
So again, any input would be great.

Thank you again to all that helped with the artwork.