[Coco] NitrOS-9 "Mascot"

richec rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Mon Apr 26 14:52:40 EDT 2010


On Sunday 25 April 2010 11:27:45 pm Brian Blake wrote:
> Well, that isn't exactly what I meant. If you take a picture drawn on 8.5"
>  X 11' paper and scale it down to 96px, it stands to reason you couldn't
>  read it. What I was trying to say is, with vector art, you can scale up or
>  down in size without losing the detail that was present in the original
>  image. Since that file is a converted vector file, that doesn't really
>  apply. The original vector file is scalable however you want. Example: say
>  you wanted to make a letterhead with your logo. You could scale the file
>  down and save it. The next day, you wanted a billboard made. You could
>  open the same graphic file and scale it to the appropriate size. With
>  raster images, if you scale down and save the file, you lose detail in the
>  image, if you try to scale the file back up.
> 
> When this mascot is done, of course png and gif files will be made, but,
>  the ai file will be given to Boisy for him to do with as he sees fit. That
>  file is the one that is vector art. It can be scaled down to whatever size
>  and saved as a png, and then scaled back up and saved as a jpg. As long as
>  the original ai file exists, any type of image file, of virtually any
>  size, could be made from it.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Dave Kelly 
<daveekelly1 at embarqmail.com>wrote:
> > On 04/25/2010 09:22 PM, Brian Blake wrote:
> >> A point I should make here about using Illustrator in case someone does
> >> not
> >> know. Illustrator is a vector art package. Using an image created using
> >> vector art, you can scale the image up or down without loss of detail in
> >> the
> >> image.
> >
> > I just scaled it down to 96 pixs vertical for favorite icon size. The
> > words on the side or unreadable.
> >
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Hi Brian,

The point is well taken however. I am a typesetter, used to run a typesetting 
business. Do not go overboard with the details because as a logo, it will be 
reduced to a small size and all that detail so loving labored over will be 
lost.

Richard



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