Fine tuning a logo

welshmoneylover

Hi

If one has designed a logo themselves on paper and need it turning into digital format for making business cards/letter heads/website etc what is the best way to do this.

Any idiots easy software out there? *preferably FOC*
or
is it best to go to a proper printers and let them do the headache work?

Thanks.

paddyrg

You could scan the image which will give you a 'bitmap' format, which will be at best OK for letterheads, etc., but will not scale well. What you ideally want is a vectorised format, such as SVG, which can be cleanly scaled from a few millimetres to many feet high for a banner and still look smooth and beautiful.

Try GIMP or Inkscape which are both capable of this (tracing a bitmap to a vector format), but you will need to do some manual tewaking (which may be better left to someone with a bit of experience). Of course it will be easier for a simpler logo than a complex one.

welshmoneylover

paddyrg wrote: »

You could scan the image which will give you a 'bitmap' format, which will be at best OK for letterheads, etc., but will not scale well. What you ideally want is a vectorised format, such as SVG, which can be cleanly scaled from a few millimetres to many feet high for a banner and still look smooth and beautiful.

Try GIMP or Inkscape which are both capable of this (tracing a bitmap to a vector format), but you will need to do some manual tewaking (which may be better left to someone with a bit of experience). Of course it will be easier for a simpler logo than a complex one.

Thanks, it is a simple logo it just looked rubbish when I scanned it in.

Never mind, I think I'll find someone with experience to do it.

Hammyman

welshmoneylover wrote: »

Thanks, it is a simple logo it just looked rubbish when I scanned it in.

Never mind, I think I'll find someone with experience to do it.

Good. Wife is a signmaker. The thing they hate the most is someone bringing in a JPEG and wanting signage and stationary making up from it.