[amayausers.com] Re: vector art programs(Mac designs for Amaya)
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:17:57 -0500
I'll try to keep this simple and not ramble...
I use Macromedia Freehand (great vector line art program, but
it was 'bought' by Adobe Illustrator people and killed-no more
versions of it, no support, etc.)
It is similar to Illustrator, but not too many use it now. I don't know
'how' to use illustrator but it's about the same.
'Vector line art' is the artwork all done as 'pieces', solid line
'outline'
and you can apply color to the 'outline' and fill separately.
Great for bringing into Design Shop because your digitizing also works
with 'vector' designs-you have to have an 'object' and assign a 'fill
pattern'
to it (if large enough) or use 'line art' like a 'single line' and
assign the 'width'
of that line for your embroidery.
Corel artwork will 'open' in illustrator (or Freehand) so you can get
artwork
from someone using Corel and work with it in Illustrator before
sending it
into Design Shop. In all 3 programs, you can use ANY font you have
available,
and 'convert' it to Path (or Outline-depends on what the program
calls it) and
now you have your custom 'font' logo as 'line art' and you can
manipulate it
anyway the program lets you. Stretch it, arch it, move each letter
around to
make a custom logo. Then bring that into Design Shop and just auto
digitize
it. Now, here is what I have figured out with the 'auto digitize'
feature....
only grab ONE piece of your artwork at a time-and it is pretty good.
DS9 version
is far better than DS7...but if you grab several pieces (or some
people try to grab
the entire design) and DS can't handle it-so it gives you really
screwy 'auto' digitizing.
So just grab 1 piece at a time. Remember, you can THEN go into
'properties' and
change it around. I find the 'auto digitize' wants to make densities
down into 3, 3.5-
for me, too dense for most work. And the 'underlay's may not be dense
enough for
you-but you can fix all that and still you have saved time over re-
creating the design
from scratch.
If something really doesn't come out right, you can manually create
what you need
with your vector line art underneath to 'trace' it with single line,
or fill tool, whatever
you need. Then when you get everything done, just delete all your
original artwork
and you have clean file for sewing!
Definitely have your son teach you illustrator program, and when you
can afford it,
buy the newest version (I think it's CS4). Then you can work with
files from just about
anyone. For 'tiff', jpg, bmp, etc.-you want Photoshop with it-and you
can buy a 'package'
with both together. Expensive, do NOT buy an 'online' cheap version-
it's bootleg and
you will be screwed on it. Buy direct from a real 'computer supplier'
or direct from
Zones, MacWarehouse, or Adobe.
Roland
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