Newbie Graphics Question

[GhostPrinting]

I keep having customers who want larger banners with some graphics they pull from facebook or social media. How can I convert these graphics to a svg color format so they aren't blocky when scaled. This is needing to go 5ft tall by 3 ft wide. Attached is 1 image i am working on now. TIA.

I am using AI but the image trace has left me with poor results. This is a newbie question as I am still learning the business so keep that in mind when replying. Thanks

 

[Boudica]

Let them know how poorly the graphic they provided will look at size. A screen shot at 100% helps them see. Then let them know how much it will cost to vectorize it. If doing that quickly and properly is outside your wheelhouse, out source it. Contact vector Dr.
They will either ok the extra fee, find a better file to send, or be ok with it as-is.

 

[victor bogdanov]

Topaz AI to upscale the candy canes. The text you'll have to retype, this is why there are so many "what font is this" threads out there

 

[tulsagraphics]

I keep having customers who want larger banners with some graphics they pull from facebook or social media. How can I convert these graphics to a svg color format so they aren't blocky when scaled. This is needing to go 5ft tall by 3 ft wide. Attached is 1 image i am working on now. TIA.

I am using AI but the image trace has left me with poor results. This is a newbie question as I am still learning the business so keep that in mind when replying. Thanks

In most cases (90% of the time), there's no such thing as "converting" social media "crap" to something really useable with a few mouse clicks. Nor is a bitmap to SVG conversion going to magically recreate all (or even part of) the data that was lost when the designer exported that file to a lossy sh*t file format (JPG/PNG for a social media post). Topaz, Vectorizer work well for what they "can" do, but they can't work miracles. Instead, just use that design as a reference point. Plan on rebuilding the artwork from scratch (fetch some free designs from Vecteezy or Freepik, a few fonts from Dafont or wherever... and charge the customer accordingly for your time.

 

[jcskikus]

You could also use image sites like Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Depositphotos, etc. for some of the graphics. What you can't find, you may have to redraw or have a tracing service like Fiverr do for you if you don't have the time to do it yourself. On simple banner like the one you attached, if it takes more than an hour to reproduce, it isn't worth your time.

 

[Sky Bryan]

dont forget to use

googles reverse image search to find original images.

 

[UpAndPrinting]

Google reverse image search is a great way to find better versions. Also recreating that from scratch would be easy enough. For this example at least.