I have a logo that a customer gave me that was created in microsoft word. Over time it has become pretty bad and I guess he enlarged it also so that the edges became pixilated. I was able to convert it to a bitmap, but the edges are all wavy even when I tried to smooth it and the lines are bad. Is there any easy way to fix this? I attached the original copy so you can see what I am dealing with. I am still a beginner at Corel Draw so I appreciate any help with this.
You have a bitmap inside the CorelDRAW document. The only way is to draw the image, press F5 and start to re-create the artwork.
But, if you have the original Word file, you can select it, copy, and return to to CorelDRAW and choose Edit/Paste special, and select "Windows Metafile"
Ariel Garaza Díaz
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Your attachment was actually a Word File embedded in a Draw file. Right-click the Word object and choose Document>Open. MS Word will open with a bitmap sitting on the page. Copy it to the clipboard and paste it into Draw as an Enhanced Metafile. Do a Live Trace on that and choose Detailed Logo.
I am not an expert in Draw, so others may have better suggestions.
Best regards,
using the freehand or bezier tool would probably be the quickest way and just recreate the logo. The "W" is an actual font yet I cannot remembe rthe name. If you found the font that would be even quicker recreating all together.
Fluid - Richard Reilly http://www.unleash.com/fluid/
Using Pen Tool is an option for tracing a image on manual, and I think Pen Tool is not bad but good enough.
But an annoyance is I can't start another line from the last node of a corve line, joining new line. so I have to switch 'Preview Mode' or 'Auto Add-Delete' on Porperty Bar for doing this.
Is it working properly here?
thanks
Lee
isn't it so much easy? that u can easily re draw it
20 min tops recreating that logo from scratch in DRAW using the freehand or bezier tool. A trace would work yet would require way too much editing since the quality of the image is poor. Unfortunately garbage in usually means garbage out.
You may want to check with them for any other image of their logo. A letterhead, business card, sign on the door picture, or anything else that is better than what you have. The image you posted seems to be missing parts, but with out further references it is an unknown as how much degradation has taken place.
As is you could redraw it as other have said, but you end up with a clean version of a degraded image.
Jack
Time is Money.
It's a simple design just redraw it and move on. Or take a little time to look for the font and reproduce it. If it were more complex then I would try to get better artwork from the customer but you may waste more time doing that then just redrawing it.
Good Luck and let us see how it turns out.
Ron Bastian
I ended up redrawing it as suggested. I am still kind of new at it, so it took awhile. Hopefully I will get enough future work to justify it.
looks good. Even if you do not get more work from same company you are doing steps you will use in the future. Practice makes perfect and the more you work this way youll get a lot faster at it. When I first started something liek this would have taken me a long time yet now its quick for the most part depending on the logo at hand.
don't get too discouraged you'll get the hang of it