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Vector Help
- Thread starter DarksideAutoSolution
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Cut the guy some slack!
Otherwise I will have to become a merchant member with my company 'whatfont?!' Font recognition for 5USD
Hope everybody will back me up if anyone over here offers a freebie!
I understand the point of view but hey, if someone is willing to learn someone how to use live-trace..... Let him! I use copyartwork.com for the complicated vectorizing jobs; first I used it for every vectorjob but now that I'm becoming an Illustrator master ;-) I know I can do most jobs in less than 15 minutes.
And as he mentioned; handtraced is always better but a live-trace with some altering does the trick for some drawings
Otherwise I will have to become a merchant member with my company 'whatfont?!' Font recognition for 5USD
Hope everybody will back me up if anyone over here offers a freebie!
I understand the point of view but hey, if someone is willing to learn someone how to use live-trace..... Let him! I use copyartwork.com for the complicated vectorizing jobs; first I used it for every vectorjob but now that I'm becoming an Illustrator master ;-) I know I can do most jobs in less than 15 minutes.
And as he mentioned; handtraced is always better but a live-trace with some altering does the trick for some drawings
Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
No one is saying a member cannot ask for help and another member provide it. The question then becomes, in what form does that help take place. Since we do not want digital files shared at Signs 101 for reasons both obvious and already stated, that is not going to happen. That doesn't stop anyone from posting the steps to auto trace or hand trace or clean up a vector. That is, IMHO, equal to teaching a man to fish instead of just giving him a fish.
Anyone with any desire to learn their craft can acquire well prepared and high quality vectors. Here's a link to a few samples we provide. One can examine them and use them as a template/guide to attempt to replicate them with a Bezier pen. And one can auto trace them to see the difference, after which, hopefully, he or she will pick up their Bezier pen tool and start practicing with it.
I fail to see the connection with whether or not you would ever become a merchant member here. If it benefits you, then do so. But you would have no more right to use Signs 101 to share files than anyone else. What msenjur seems to be complaining about is a difference in his view versus both the rules and the culture that have evolved here after eight years. That culture dictates that the member needing help first attempt and show something on his or her own. Then the help offered is almost always a reply of how to do something rather than "here, I did it for you".
Font identification is, perhaps, the main exception although I have replied often with the techniques and software I use for that function. But, admittedly, font ID often takes place here without any advice given as to how a member might learn to do it on their own.
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Are you the owner of the wtf site?
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Why have you suddenly become defensive? I was just asking a simple question, not being sarcastic. You said my company whatthefont so I thought you were the owner of the site. I recall reading somewhere that the company was based in eastern Europe
I was just being whitty 
And I was already sarcastic when I came up with my idea of becominga merchant member..... It was only to explain my point
For your infirmation: I said 'whatfont?!' not whatthefont..... Which is from MyFonts
Wikiquote:
MyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts.'
And I was already sarcastic when I came up with my idea of becominga merchant member..... It was only to explain my point
For your infirmation: I said 'whatfont?!' not whatthefont..... Which is from MyFonts
Wikiquote:
MyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts.'
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
OK, understood. Lets be done