Meat House

[JavierP]

Hi Meat,
Here is tip for converting logo graphics to vector format in Illustrator. I am using CS3, so I am sure later versions will work also.
Usually if I am given a raster version of a logo at a decent resolution (around 1000px to a side) I can covert it to vector 'automatically' using the 'Live Trace' feature in Illustrator. It is found under the 'Object'[ menu. Live Trace works best when the logo is a black and white image, with the logo being black and the background being white. Adjust the settings with preview turned on and you can see what your result will be before Illustrator traces the image. Choose 'ignore white' in the options to eliminate the white area and you will have a clean graphic that you can resize however you wish. You might have to trace some smaller elements by hand if there are lots of thin lines and details, but Live Trace gets you most of the way there in a few minutes. In my example, much of the fine detail was clipped out because I started with a low resolution file. However with a little more manual tracing I could get a perfect result. Total work time to trace the image in the example was about 3 minutes. Hope this helps.