I need to create a few things (logos, etc) in an .eps format. What software do I need to be able to do this? Thanks! Cole
Illustrator? Who makes that? I've been using some simple cut and paste programs for picture editing and would like to do some more creative things for my site, I was thinking about Photoshop. You use Illustrator in conjunction with Photoshop? Craig
Thanks, Adam.....I've got Photoshop already. I'll have to see what Illustrator is going to run me......off to the local Comp USA I guess!
Shop around for the price on it, it is varies alot. You want the cs edition, and sometimes it comes cmbined in a package with indesign and photoshop at a good price. Like 300$ for all. Someone at school had seen illustrator for 95$ somewhere, so that's something to aim for. Good luck Kimson
Well, I think I'll keep looking.........found Illustrator at CompUSA...for $599! :eek2: Ouch. If I was using it for a living, no big deal......but I'm just doing a few things for my daughter's dance team (to put on T-shirts for fundraisers, etc). 95 bucks, you say? I better dig a little harder.......... Thanks.
Don't know the technical reasons......only that if you try to enlarge jpegs or something they aren't nearly as sharp as eps files, which are "vector" something or other. Heard it from several different folks, so gotta believe it's the norm.....they can use other files, but they won't be nearly as clean as eps files.
Most half decent programs like photoshop or microsoft photo editor will save a jpeg image as a tiff format. This format is very high resolution and should be able to be converted by most any shop like kinkos or whoever. Of course, you have to start with a high quality image or you can't save as one. Good luck.
Since I deal with this crap everyday. Some tips from my company's web site. :Smarty: QuarkXPress and InDesign for page layout These are the industry standard layout programs and are the preferred programs. They are suitable for any job you wish to print. Illustrator and FreeHand for graphic design An excellent tool for illustrations, but not appropriate for layout purposes. Save the files as an EPS and place into a page layout program. Doing this task yourself will save time. Photoshop for photos We recommend that you use Photoshop to scan and edit raster images only, not for page layout, and especially not for type. Unlike page layout and vector programs such as Illustrator or FreeHand, Photoshops type is dependent upon the files resolution. Text at 300 dpi will look more chunky and jagged than type done in a resolution-independent (vector) program such as Illustrator or FreeHand. With the advent of vector type support in Photoshop 6.0, we can take your layered file with text layers not rendered and output crisp, clean type. However, this process requires a workaround and may incur additional costs or time delays. PREFERRED GRAPHIC FILE FORMATS TIFF (or TIF) The TIF format is an excellent format for most printing uses. It is the preferred format for 4-color, grayscale or bitmap images. EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) There are two types of EPS files: Vector and Raster. While TIF is more suitable for 4-color, grayscale or bitmap images, a raster EPS is also acceptable. Vector EPS files are the perfect format for illustrations from programs like Illustrator and FreeHand. JPG files are RGB (Red ,Green ,Blue the colors your monitor uses.)They can't be color seperated for spot color printing. If they are converted into CMYK for process printing the colors change, and look funky. SCANNING AND RESOLUTION BLACK AND WHITE LINE ART If your image is black and white only (no shades of gray), such as a logo or line drawing, scan it as Line Art, with at least 600 dpi (we recommend 1200 dpi). Anything below 600 dpi will become jagged around the edges. This is also called Bitmap or 1-Bit. GRAYSCALE IMAGES If you are scanning continuous tone images, black and white photographs, or other images with black and gray, scan them as grayscale, at 100% finished size at 300 dpi. In most cases, scanning at anything above 300 dpi is a waste of disk space and computer processing time. COLOR IMAGES If you are scanning a color image for use in a 4-color process job, at 100% finished size at 300 dpi is most appropriate. Most scanners output in RGB mode, and you will need to change that mode to CMYK once inside Photoshop be aware that a straight scan is not necessarily ready to be printed. In most cases, corrections using Photoshops Levels or Curves need to be done for the best printed output. Unless youve made arrangements otherwise, we assume that youve made these corrections yourself. FONTS TRUE TYPE, TYPE 1 AND OPEN TYPE Fonts come in two main types: Type 1 (also called postscript) and True Type (TTF). For the most reliable printed output, use Type 1 whenever possible. In addition to True Type and Type 1, you might also have heard of a new type of font: Open Type. These fonts promise to be cross-platform. Some fonts come with bold and italic versions, others do not. While you can approximate a bold or italic look on fonts without these versions by using the attribute buttons in your layout program, your fonts will not actually print this way on postscript devices unless there is an actual bold or italic font file to reference back to. For this reason, when you are applying a bold or italic attribute to a font using the style buttons in your page layout program, you must be sure that you actually have the corresponding bold or italic version of that font. For Mac users the easiest way to ensure this is to not use the buttons at all, but to choose the font through the font menu. PC users do not always have this choice and must be aware of which fonts actually have bold and italic versions. An additional note regarding the outline button: please be aware that this effect does not work with all fonts. It may show in laser proofs, but does not always image to press.
Photoshop 7 will export/save to EPS format, and will only rasterize the type if you skew or scale them physically. I recently did the layout for the new BPG tshirts 100% in Photoshop 7 and sent them to Mike Bucy in EPS format. The file size is alittle larger, but it's a lot better than trying to save and transport HUGE TIFF files that can be 20-50 megs to start out! Plus you can do almost anything in Photoshop that you can do in Illustrator......if you know how to do it. :TU: Mike
