"VECTOR MAGIC"

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jezza

#15
November 13, 2007, 02:53:27 PM
Surely if you have Illy CS3 there is little need for this? Auto race (CS2 here) is tremendously powerful with the right settings.
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born2print

#16
November 13, 2007, 02:58:15 PM
Good point, never have tried it! :-[
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delooch

#17
November 13, 2007, 06:10:31 PM
Quote from: jezza on November 13, 2007, 02:53:27 PMSurely if you have Illy CS3 there is little need for this? Auto race (CS2 here) is tremendously powerful with the right settings.

not a need exactly..im still on cs2. i can make auto trace do what i want most of the time.. I still like to fall back to PS & streamline depending on what im doing. but overall, its results are pretty good with little intervention, even on crap files.  just one more possibly useful link...

ninjaPB_43

#18
December 05, 2007, 10:09:16 AM
I got admit I was skeptical but, I ran a high res picture through yesterday, and was really impressed with the results..  I will be using this again.
People will notice the change in your attitude towards them, but won't notice their behavior that made you change.  -Bob Marley

gnubler

#19
December 05, 2007, 10:46:08 AM
I've been using it as well - and mostly from low-rez clipart I find from online services I don't subscribe to. If there's a watermark I don't even bother, but I'm getting good results from smaller 72 DPIs.
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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LoganBlade

#20
December 05, 2007, 03:03:02 PM
Try a nice 300dpi picture. They have a size limit but damn if it wasn't something you could use to do a very large banner. and still see great detail. I haven't had a need to use it but it is excellent and you don't have to think much. I give it a solid 10.
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delooch

#21
February 21, 2008, 10:16:01 AM
easy come, easy go.

Looks like VM has gone commercial. if you register soon you get "4 free tokens", 1 token = 1 file process, after that its like $2.25 usd each.

It was a nice free app while it lasted, much easier than cs2/streamline.

ninjaPB_43

#22
February 21, 2008, 10:50:29 AM
I think I can still find $2.25 in my freelance jobs if I need to use it.    But free was better.  :tongue:
People will notice the change in your attitude towards them, but won't notice their behavior that made you change.  -Bob Marley

gnubler

#23
February 21, 2008, 11:35:36 AM
Ach, big bummer! And their new logo sucks, too. Oh well, off it goes from my Bookmarks.
Hicks • Cross • Carlin • Kinison • Parker • Stone •  Colbert • Hedberg • Stanhope • Burr

"As much as I'd like your guns I prefer your buns." - The G

Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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ninjaPB_43

#24
February 21, 2008, 11:38:33 AM
Quote from: gnubler on February 21, 2008, 11:35:36 AMAnd their new logo sucks, too.

yea, that's crappy.
People will notice the change in your attitude towards them, but won't notice their behavior that made you change.  -Bob Marley

Joe

#25
February 21, 2008, 11:43:08 AM
Well, that was a nice resource to have but you can do the same thing in Illustrator. No tokens needed if you already have the software. :cool:
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gnubler

#26
February 21, 2008, 04:06:40 PM
Only CS2 and up, I think. No Live Trace in CS1 (which I use)
Hicks • Cross • Carlin • Kinison • Parker • Stone •  Colbert • Hedberg • Stanhope • Burr

"As much as I'd like your guns I prefer your buns." - The G

Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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Sparky

#27
March 15, 2008, 10:38:54 AM
Quote from: PlateSmith on October 30, 2007, 11:51:40 AMI always wanted a job at which I did nothing but trace with a pen tool in Illustrator for 40 hours a week.  Now like Plating 40 hours a week, it's on its way to the island of misfit career dreams.   :(

Been there-Done that. I worked for a prepress finishing house that worked like an assembly line :sleepy: Each person did a specific job, and passed the end results to the next person. I started as a Quark "Page assembler" (whatever the hell that means) and unfortunately for me, once proved how good I could do outlines with the pen tool in Photoshop :cry: (mind you this was around 92-93 with photoshop v3 I think). Anyway I do hope your comment was sarcastic, I'd hate to sit and do just one of anything all day 7/week  :sleepy:
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DigitalCrapShoveler

#28
March 16, 2008, 01:31:15 AM
Quote from: Sparky on March 15, 2008, 10:38:54 AM
Quote from: PlateSmith on October 30, 2007, 11:51:40 AMI always wanted a job at which I did nothing but trace with a pen tool in Illustrator for 40 hours a week.  Now like Plating 40 hours a week, it's on its way to the island of misfit career dreams.   :(

Been there-Done that. I worked for a prepress finishing house that worked like an assembly line :sleepy: Each person did a specific job, and passed the end results to the next person. I started as a Quark "Page assembler" (whatever the hell that means) and unfortunately for me, once proved how good I could do outlines with the pen tool in Photoshop :cry: (mind you this was around 92-93 with photoshop v3 I think). Anyway I do hope your comment was sarcastic, I'd hate to sit and do just one of anything all day 7/week  :sleepy:

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G_Town

#29
March 17, 2008, 04:04:51 PM
Quote from: Sparky on March 15, 2008, 10:38:54 AM
Quote from: PlateSmith on October 30, 2007, 11:51:40 AMI always wanted a job at which I did nothing but trace with a pen tool in Illustrator for 40 hours a week.  Now like Plating 40 hours a week, it's on its way to the island of misfit career dreams.   :(

Been there-Done that. I worked for a prepress finishing house that worked like an assembly line :sleepy: Each person did a specific job, and passed the end results to the next person. I started as a Quark "Page assembler" (whatever the hell that means) and unfortunately for me, once proved how good I could do outlines with the pen tool in Photoshop :cry: (mind you this was around 92-93 with photoshop v3 I think). Anyway I do hope your comment was sarcastic, I'd hate to sit and do just one of anything all day 7/week  :sleepy:

We got "loaned" a guy from a competitor until we could hire someone to replace the guy that got the axe.

First day in I explain what he needs to do and he replys "oh I don't know how to do that I ONLY do color work" now in this day and age I find it absurd that you can be that narrowly focused.

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