[jerryperrish]

I was given this terrible image and am trying to figure out where I should begin. I tried running it through Vector Magic, but it's too far gone to work with. I tried to find the font for a while to just rebuild the text and attempt to blur the rest enough to pass. Any suggestions?

 

[gmtully42]

I would personally re-make it in CorelDraw. There is a lot of text there and shapes that are easy to make. Just make sure the customer pays for your work... at least $50 artwork fee.

 

[Flagrant-T]

Send it to artworksource.com (one of the sponsors here)...they'll do it for $15. I use them all the time. For that price it isn't worth my time to vector it.

Good luck,
Nick

 

[Fenrir]

Looks like Impact, maybe? Murray's is something else though.

One way to fudge monochrome (or images with limited colors) art like this is to change it to Indexed. Then resize it super-huge, like 10" x 10" at 300dpi or more. That way it doesn't "blur", only "pixellates". Then trace, and Simplify once. I did a quick run with this using GimPad and Inkscape and the chicken artwork came out "okay" but it pretty much wrecked the text.

 

[jerryperrish]

Thanks for the input everyone! The font isn't quite impact but close enough. I just rebuilt the rest. I am definitely going to keep that website in mind for future things though. $15 is definitely better than the hassle sometimes.

 

[royster13]

There is a vector of this logo embedded in this pdf....

[media]http://www.murrayschicken.com/images/poop/summer_08.pdf[/media]

Drag the pdf into Illustrator and it should work fine...Just need to re-colour it...

 

[jerryperrish]

There is a vector of this logo embedded in this pdf....

[media]http://www.murrayschicken.com/images/poop/summer_08.pdf[/media]

Drag the pdf into Illustrator and it should work fine...Just need to re-colour it...

Thanks! I can't believe I didn't do a search like that. Uggh

 

[printingray]

This was in low pixels i thinks and image quality is too much bad must have to redraw it!

 

[tpitman]

Here's a suggestion. When customers foist a crappy .jpg off on you, tell them to ask their offset printer for an .eps copy of their logo and send it to you. Most customers are too lazy to try and dig up a good copy of their art, even though it exists somewhere, and more than likely with their offset printer. IF they can't muster the energy to pick up the phone to make the call, tell them it'll be $30 to have it recreated. That seems to "invigorate" them a bit to find that good art.