Urgent Help Please – converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

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Jess Litlock
Nov 8, 2006
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Hi all, urgent help needed please. Thanks to anyone able to.

We have a Photoshop file which is essentially a Font typeface with some emboss and white Stroke as an outline. The background is transparent. We are having this urgently printed onto vinyl to affix onto a vehicle.

However the shop needs to cut the vinyl neatly around the white Stroke outline, so the transparent background is just the car itself. This means their machine will need to automatically cut around all the intricacies of the letters that make up the wording.

They have complained that the PSD is not vectored and when they try to import it into Illustrator, the resulting path looks horrible and we would not be happy with it.

They need a vector outline of all the words to use as a path for the cutter.

Q: Is there a way we can automatically convert the outlines of our Stroke (for the wording) and Shape (for another element) into a smooth vector path?

Thanks in advance to anyone able to help.

Matt

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Mike Russell
Nov 8, 2006
"Jess Litlock" wrote in message
Hi all, urgent help needed please. Thanks to anyone able to.
We have a Photoshop file which is essentially a Font typeface with some emboss and white Stroke as an outline. The background is transparent. We are having this urgently printed onto vinyl to affix onto a vehicle.
However the shop needs to cut the vinyl neatly around the white Stroke outline, so the transparent background is just the car itself. This means their machine will need to automatically cut around all the intricacies of the letters that make up the wording.

They have complained that the PSD is not vectored and when they try to import it into Illustrator, the resulting path looks horrible and we would not be happy with it.

They need a vector outline of all the words to use as a path for the cutter.

Q: Is there a way we can automatically convert the outlines of our Stroke (for the wording) and Shape (for another element) into a smooth vector path?

Provided your text is still a text or shape layer, and not rasterized, delete all the layers except the text layer. You may need to alt double click the background layer first. Then save it as an eps file, with the "Include Vector Data" box checked. Send them the eps file, which should make Illy happy.

If your objects have been rasterized, you’re in an awkward position. Although Photoshop will convert a selection to a work path, the result is generally going to be sloppy. The easiest thing in that case is probably to recreate the text and objects.


Mike Russell
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Jess Litlock
Nov 8, 2006
"Mike Russell" wrote in message
Provided your text is still a text or shape layer, and not rasterized, delete all the layers except the text layer. You may need to alt double click the background layer first. Then save it as an eps file, with the "Include Vector Data" box checked. Send them the eps file, which should make Illy happy.

If your objects have been rasterized, you’re in an awkward position. Although Photoshop will convert a selection to a work path, the result is generally going to be sloppy. The easiest thing in that case is probably to recreate the text and objects.

Thanks Mike. Wouldn’t another way to do it be select using the wand around the outline of the rasterized areas, then create new work path from that?
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Mike Russell
Nov 8, 2006
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Subject: Re: Urgent Help Please – converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
Provided your text is still a text or shape layer, and not rasterized, delete all the layers except the text layer. You may need to alt double click the background layer first. Then save it as an eps file, with the "Include Vector Data" box checked. Send them the eps file, which should make Illy happy.

If your objects have been rasterized, you’re in an awkward position. Although Photoshop will convert a selection to a work path, the result is generally going to be sloppy. The easiest thing in that case is probably to recreate the text and objects.

Thanks Mike. Wouldn’t another way to do it be select using the wand around the outline of the rasterized areas, then create new work path from that?

This will create a path. Unless your letters are quite large, the text will appear distorted. I’m guessing this is the problem the vinyl letter folks are having.

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/
JL
Jess Litlock
Nov 8, 2006
"Mike Russell" wrote in message

Thanks Mike. Wouldn’t another way to do it be select using the wand around the outline of the rasterized areas, then create new work path from that?

This will create a path. Unless your letters are quite large, the text will appear distorted. I’m guessing this is the problem the vinyl letter folks are having.

Yep they are large – actual size in fact. I.e. the vinyl print is 75cm and the PSD file is 75cm 300dpi. So, the path seems fairly hi-res and hopefully will do the trick.

Matt

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