Photoshop help.

[IRC]

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to ink something (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/inraged/logo2.gif)in photoshop.

Yeah.

[Sejon]

you mean something like this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/sejon/tattoo.jpg

[IRC]

No, that's horrible. Not at all what I was looking for.

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Can you tell me how you did it?

[Sejon]

I took it into Photoshop and upped the contrast and blacked over any small white spots inside the letters/curlicues, then took it into Illustrator and did a live trace and played around with the settings a bit.

Some parts, like the curlicue on the top right, I had to live trace separately because it was looking a bit funky. And then you just paste those parts back unto the main image via Photoshop again. Or, alternatively, you can play around with the points in Illustrator and tweak it to look smoother and better.

The handy thing about doing this is that it vectorizes it, so you can expand the image to any size you want without the fear of losing resolution. You could have a highway billboard of this if you wanted, and had the wherewithal obviously. :p

[IRC]

That is excellent news. I'm doing this for my advertising campaigns class. Just such scenario may occur.

[neobi]

Use the wand selector tool with contiguous unselected so it chooses all the black. Copy and paste it into a new layer, then in the layer settings you can add a color overlay and outline as needed to give the desired feel. Make sure you rid of splotches though. Blur then sharpen for crisping if needed.