Mahuti....vector gurus?

[rohan]

When is a piece of artwork to small and/or crummy to work with for vectorization?...What is worthy of submital to the AAL and what is not?
Below are examples of very low quality artwork, but I think that they'd be good enough to submit for tracing.

[Nannuu]

Personally I think that's decent enough.  It's very simple artwork.  The vector won't be the most accurate but that can be noted in the description once it's vectorized.
I think that Stern is already done somewhere.  I had that cut in vinyl last year but can't remember where I got it.  Not the entire sticker but the Stern logo.

[rohan]

Actually these pics were more used just as an example, but thank you for your input.

[zorg]

it really depends on the image, if it's simple as the bezel above, the size will be OK, but if it has a lot of details, this will be to small.
remember that the higher the resolution is the better the tracing will be.

oh and one more thing, sometimes, digital photos presents distorsion, because they were taken with a small angle, this could be a problem, and need to be fixed before we can start tracing the art. some guys here are really good in fixing images

[megashock5]

As long as it's no such bad quality or small size that you can't trace it you'll be okay.

Aso, to zorg's point, there's trick in photoshop to quickly get an image that was taken at an angle into a full head-on view. Learned it at a photoshop seminar last year - I'll try to find my notes from it, but I know if was really simple.

[rohan]

Actually, if someone wants to vectorize that Stern coindoor sticker it would be greatly appreciated...My 2 yr. old cousin decided to play with the coindoor on my Astro Invader(she almost lost the keys, too )

[megashock5]

How's this? Kind of hard to tell the real colors from that pic, so these may be a bit bright. But it's easy to adjust them.

[mahuti]

The words on the bottom are not in the correct font. Take a look at the "G." I'm guessing you're using arial, or some knock-off helvetica. The original Helvetica has the "arrow g" from the pic at the top.

[rohan]

Thanks for the sticker, Megashock5.  This is great; I doubt anyone would notice the difference on the "G"(beside Mahuti of course).

[mahuti]

ehh... I don't really care... just sayin'

[zorg]

Thanks for the sticker, Megashock5.  This is great; I doubt anyone would notice the difference on the "G"(beside Mahuti of course).

I will
font matching is a problem wille reproducing/restauring some of the arts.

side note, the spacing between chicago, and ill seems to big for me regarding the original

yes I care about details

[mahuti]

yeah, using a real helvetica will probably remove the spacing problem.