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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Does Anybody Have Illustrator CS and a Meaty Computer?Man, I cannot wait until I get my laptop back. Working on this old cludgy piece of junk is killing me when working with processor-intensive applications. I'm developing some new exterior signage, and need to have a photo converted from bitmap to vector format while losing as little detail as possible. I've used Adobe Illustrator's Live Trace functionality with good success in the past. The laptop I had to send back for repairs (which I've since upgraded to 2gigs of RAM), could easily have processed the image, but the laptop I'm currently working on -- a P4 1.6ghz with 512 MB of shared RAM and a 4200 RPM hard drive -- just cannot cut it. I let the thing run for an hour and it didn't finish. I tried using other available raster to vector software, but most of it was either expensive or the freeware stuff was built more for line drawings than photos. The one I managed to get to work was able to convert it to an SVG format (it wouldn't do an EPS, it said, because my graphic card wouldn't support it), but Illustrator puked trying to import and render it. Does anybody have access to Illustrator or another good conversion program along with a meaty computer and can convert this to vector? Update: Thanks Kevin for helping me out here and sending me some great files! Thanks a bunch! Posted by Jake on 06/05/07 @ 01:16 PM
Posted in Geekdom, Jake | 3 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 3 Commentskevin said on 06/05/07 @ 02:47 PM:Where do you want it? I vectorized it to look as much like a photo as possible. Or did you want it more stylized? Send me your email addy on my myspace account. Jake said on 06/05/07 @ 02:57 PM: Just e-mailed you at the e-mail address you used to submit that comment, Kevin. Jesse Thompson said on 06/08/07 @ 03:16 AM: So it's a greyscale photo with blurs and trillions of tons of useless detail. Why couldn't you pick something more difficult to vector, Jake? :) Seriously, I am intrigued to see what the finished product looked like. Post it here! or, er, post a png/jpg copy of it or summat Post a comment |
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