Help with this please

[dehrlich]

Local High School logo, trying to make a pattern and I guess since all I can find is small images, it gets pretty distorted when expanded. Anyone willing to clean it up for me please? It's the Mcpherson Kansas Bullpups if you want to look for another, but this is the best I could find. Thanks in advance.

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[SteveNelson46]

About the best I can do with the size and resolution of the original pic

[DianMayfield]

Here is a larger image. It looks like your typical USMC pup :)

Hope it helps!

[SteveNelson46]

Dian's image was much cleaner

[dehrlich]

Dian's image was much cleaner

That is great, thank you!!

[bergerud]

Here is a Shadermap output of Dian's pic.

[DianMayfield]

You guys rock :)

I bought Shadermap last year, I really need to dig in and learn it :confused:

[SteveNelson46]

This was kind of fun to mess around with. I used Corel Draw to outline Dian's bitmap and saved it as a .dxf. After importing it into the Designer I turned it into a Vector Group. I think it turned out pretty good.

[bergerud]

That is cool Steve. We should all experiment more with vector groups.

[DianMayfield]

Steve, that turned out great! I will try and get it to come out as nicely. How much detail did you use on the outline in Corel? I generally have too many points :)

[SteveNelson46]

Steve, that turned out great! I will try and get it to come out as nicely. How much detail did you use on the outline in Corel? I generally have too many points :)

Dian,

First I opened it in Photoshop and saved it as a .png but I don't think that step was necessary. Then I imported it into Corel Draw and selected convert to bitmap. Since it was already a bitmap I don't think that step was necessary either. From the bitmap menu I selected "Quick Trace" and Corel Draw gave me a warning stating the bitmap was too large. I clicked on "Reduce" in the pop-up box. Then I deleted the original and exported as a .dxf. That's it. I didn't need to change any settings.