Importance of Vector Pictures For Business
When you start a company or a new project apart from creating the business plan and budget, you come to a point where you need to design a logo that will visually represent your initiative. Recently I was participating in an art project where the head of the project used a hand-drawn logo. All looked great; the idea, the visual content of the presentation, the inspiring team. As the time flew and the project kicked off the team faced a serious dilemma during organizing its first event. The issue was in the logo that was hand drawn and then retouched in a pixel-based computer program to adapt it for presentation needs. It had small size dimensions which were enough for screen viewing and the presentation. However later when it was placed on a 3x4 meter banner it significantly lost its quality. What caused the problem? None of our amateur designers could find a solution to improve and maintain the quality of the logo until they addressed the problem to the professionals who recreated the logo by vectorizing it.
To get a better idea of the issue let’s understand how the pixel-based images function.Take one of your photos, zoom in and you will see that the higher you go the bigger the number of small cubes start appearing on your screen. This happens because a photo is built on a pixel grid system, where millions of small square boxes contain one type of a color and when they are put together they create the whole image. You might have seen also blurry images. Have you ever questioned yourself where their sharpness go? The fact is when you have a small size image and you try to enlarge it beyond its normal size, the image quality blows up bringing forth square boxes and then simply giving you an unprofessionally looking image. To avoid this unpleasant result it is always clever to convert your image to vector. Vector images are special types of graphic files that are based on mathematical descriptions rather than pixels and can be scaled without blurring or pixelating.
This allows the graphic designer to place the image on any size canvas and maintain high quality results either in digital or print forms. If your logo is a sketch on a paper or an already created raster image and you face a similar problem you shouldn’t worry as it is possible to recreate it in vector graphic programs such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. The best choice for vectorizing an image from raster to vector form is manual vectorization. This allows the designer not only obtain high quality vector image but very often fill in some gaps of the image, adjust its colors, use his/her artistic skills and manipulate easier with the shapes. There is an alternative to the manual vectorizing service, it is automatic in built filters in the software or websites that specialize in automatic conversion of the image to vector. However, all the benefits that one can get while doing a manual conversion are not available in automatic vectorization as the machine traces roughly the image based on its pixels without giving any additional solutions to it. And very often the quality comes out very poor.
If you are looking for a professional raster to vector tracing service you can consider using the iVectorize.com which provides 24/7 service and affordable prices. If you follow the link you can read more about iVectorize service and the main 5 reasons why to choose it as your reliable friend in vectorizing images and logos.