Graphic recolouring help

Den1se

Hi
I have been asked to create some leaflets for our local swimming club - they have given me a picture of their logo but it is in black and white & I want to change it to blue image & yellow background if possible (club colours) I have tried the normal recolouring in MS word/powerpoint/publisher etc but it doesn't do what I want it to do. Can anyone point me in the right direction or reccomend editing software. Most of what I have found on the net is for recolouring B&W photo's but this is more like a clip art type image - it's quite hard to explain without you being able to see the image - but any help appreciated

Strider590

You need some half decent graphics/imaging software.

Printing them on a standard printer will cost a small fortune, plus the quality will be poor and the ink will smudge/run.
So if your having them printed professionally in CMYK colors, you'll have trouble printing blue anyway, it'll look more purple than blue.

Pixulated

Adobe will sort you out, but yeah I agree with what Strider said you need a decent printer.

Den1se

Thank you - I don't think printing will be an issue - they are applying for lots of different funding etc & it will mainly be used electronically.....I will give adobe a try

isofa

If it's a vector logo, i.e. drawn with no photographic sections (i.e. no bitmap), then you ideally need a vector drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator, (you can trace [a command in Illustrator] the logo to capture it and then recreate/edit it) whereas if it's a photographic logo you'll need Photoshop.

However if you can recreate it at a high resolution as a bitmap, you could use Photoshop (or a nice free image editor like Paint.Net).

If it's blue and green, I'd set both as spot colours, and have the printer run it using 3 colour (black [key], plus two spots for blue and green,) rather than CMYK.

There are a raft of colours you can see in RGB which aren't technically reproducible in CMYK, i.e. out of gamut...

If you are still having trouble, PM me with the logo and the colours and I'll do it for you