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Title: Vectorized Rampart control panel
Post by: Katana Man on August 31, 2009, 10:56:30 pm: Greetings,
My good friend Mark recently purchased Rampart, and the control panel was all scratched. So we took it off, and I took a picture of it in my studio, taking extra care to make sure the camera was perfectly square to it (that took a lot of time). I then took it into Photoshop and cleaned up most of the scratches.

We want to vectorize this and reprint it so he can restore his Rampart. He's willing to pay for the conversion. The bricks in the control panel would present the toughest challenge, and I'm not sure if this is even possible. Maybe partially vectorized and partially picture?

This attached image is just a scaled down JPG. I have the original PSD file which is twice as large: 2915 x 1263 pixels.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: zorg on September 01, 2009, 03:16:04 am: This one will deseve a bitmap restoration instead of vectorisation. photoshop will be the tool to work on it.

vectorisation of the background will e a nightmare and will induce a los of details and quality.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: Blanka on September 01, 2009, 03:29:25 am: Best for this is to leave the background in bitmap, and clean it as zorg said.
But, the text and boxes should be added as a vector layer. That way you have the best quality possible from this.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: zorg on September 01, 2009, 05:59:07 am: right. photoshop can use some vector layers. that's what I suggested photoshop as the tool to go for this kind of artwork
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: Katana Man on September 09, 2009, 11:51:52 am: We are willing to hire someone to convert the the items that are convertable to vector.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: Ryglore on September 09, 2009, 12:54:20 pm: Your best bet for the text would be do the background in Photoshop and then import the file to Illustrator and do the text with it. While Photoshop does some vectoring, the text isn't one of them. If you want crisp edges on the lettering, used Illustrator for it's vector based text.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: Katana Man on September 10, 2009, 02:47:37 pm: I agree, but I don't have the skills yet to vectorize in Illustrator, therefore we are offering this job to someone.
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: GuyDanger on September 22, 2009, 04:01:47 pm: Have you got anyone to do this for you yet?
And how much are you offering fto have it done?
Title: Re: Want to hire someone to vectorize Rampart control panel
Post by: Katana Man on February 15, 2011, 02:46:27 pm: Yes thanks. We hired someone to do it. It's finally done after fine tuning it. We are now going to be ordering some prints to me made.