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Gavin

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Posted on 04-30-05 12:10 AM Link | Quote
well, semi professional at least.

i'm working on fixing a website for a company and the original designers (who i now officially hate. jesus christ i've never seen such terrible markup) simply didn't include a few specification pages for their client's product. I was given the original files that were sent to the original webpage author, and the schematics are crude and cannot be displayed as is.

to give you an example:

original diagram

that is an example of the original diagrams i was given. there are three other views for each product, and i have 6 total products to create cleaned up diagrams for.

now, i simply traced the entire image in photoshop and it seemed to work out faily well. the only problem is that for this simple picture below, it took me about 30-45 minutes.

painful recreation

what i'm really getting at is this question: does anyone have any technique, software, or method unbeknownst to me that would make this process (smoothing out crude, high contrast, un-anti-aliased images) much more simple? It's not the effort i'm unwilling to put into the project, it's a time factor. i don't have enough of it

am i just going to have to bite the proverbial bullet on this one, or can someone save me hours and hours of stress ?
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Posted on 04-30-05 03:59 AM Link | Quote
Draw three circles in a horizontal row, select them and hit copy, drag a vertical guide out of the ruler, and paste several horizontal rows down. Then just line them up with the guide and make sure they're equally spaced.

If they were bigger, I would suggest running them through a vector tracing program like Adobe Streamline, Flash, or autotrace.

Another thing you can try is scaling them 4x bigger without any anti-aliasing/filtering, converting them to grayscale or color, gaussian blur, adjust the levels, and shrink them back down. Probably won't work very well, but worth a shot.
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Posted on 05-02-05 05:48 AM Link | Quote
ah, vector tracing program, i didn't realize there were such things. and unfortunatly the scaling and anti-aliasing didn't work out too well (or at least my efforts didn't go so well, perhaps someone with more experience and some tweaking could have achieved better results). i'm about to go look into the tracing programs, thanks for the input.
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