Southside Sports LLC.
Sceen Printing - Embroidery - Tackle Twill - Signs/Banners - Equipment - Promotional Items
Artwork: Info
Art & Embroidery Files FILES VECTOR ART CAN BE SAVED IN TO BE OPENED IN COREL DRAW
• EPS - (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common file to save a vector image format. It is the standard interchange format in the print industry.
• PDF -(Portable Document Format) is very widely used as a general purpose platform- independent document format. And while it is not exclusively used as such, it is also a very good file to save a vector image format.
Please remember to convert all text to outlines or curves as opposed to fonts.
Vector art files that are not bitmap embedded images saved in a .cdr (CorelDraw), eps or .pdf.
At Southside Sports we use Corel Draw exclusively. It is a Vector art based program that works best in the world of screen printing and embroidery. Its file name is cdr., we are currently using version 14. With Embroidery we use Tajima Pulse software its file name is pxf. We can also open dst. files. We prefer Vector art files that are not bitmap embedded images saved in a .cdr (CorelDraw), .eps or .pdf.
I'm going to talk a little about Bitmaps and Vector Art and how they relate to each other.
What Are Bitmap Images (Non-Vector Files)?
Bitmap images are images that are described by pixels - squares of color arranged in a grid. Bitmap images are also known as raster images.
Non-vector flies are nothing more than a picture, a guide to recreate the art from scratch. A bitmap is a regular image, like a JPG from your camera, or a PNG on a website. Bitmaps are described by a grid of tiny colored squares called pixels. If you want to increase the size of a bitmap, you have to come up with new pixels to fill in the gaps between the original ones. This process is called "interpolation" and it leads to the blurriness or pixilation that you see when you zoom into a bitmap or scale it up to a larger size. Non-vector flies are nothing more than a picture, a guide to recreate the art from scratch. These files are known as (jpegs., Bitmaps, tif., or gif.) They are not vector art files. Also when they are saved as pdf., or eps. It is still a picture file. The art will still need to be recreated from scratch. If this is the only form available we need it to try and have a dpi resolution of 300 or better. ANY (jpegs., PNG, Bitmap, tif., or gif.) Can be saved in a pdf. and eps. But that will NOT MAKE THEM A VECTOR FILE, They are still jpegs. This is called embedded art.
PLEASE NO WORD DOC. Or Excel FILES!! For Art: Word processors and spreadsheet or presentation applications, although suitable for creating files for office or Internet use, are not recommended for creating digital art for print. So in simple words, we can’t use them. Have the image in saved in a different format.
Bitmap Image File Formats
There is an extremely large number of different bitmap formats. Some of the most common include: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF.
Some specific comments on these formats:
• JPEG/JPG - One of the most widely-used image formats is the JPEG format (Joint Photographers' Expert Group).
• PNG - The best of the lossless image formats is called PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
• BMP - There are actually several BMP formats. In any case, all of the variants of BMP should be avoided when possible, as they use little to no compression and consequently have unnecessarily large file sizes.
• TIFF/TIF - This format (Tagged Image File Format) is used to store raw bitmap data by some programs and devices such as scanners.
Saving a JPEG/RASTER IMAGE in a .PDF or .EPS Does NOT make it a VECTOR FILE
Why Use Vector Images?
Vector images are used in most aspects of graphic design and are the preferred format for printing, both on paper and on clothes. The reason for this is that while a bitmap image can look great on the screen, which usually has a resolution of about 72 pixels/dots per inch (DPI), it will normally have to be scaled by a factor of 8 or more when printed since modern printers routinely produce resolutions of 600 pixels/dots per inch. Vector images can handle this type of scaling without any problems while bitmap images struggle with it. Many forms of printing require vector input in order to work - flex printing and embroidery for example. Vector art is ideal for Screen Printing. Since the art is made from a series of mathematical curves it will print very crisply even when resized. For instance, one can print a vector logo on a small sheet of copy paper, and then enlarge the same vector logo to billboard size and keep the same crisp quality. A low-resolution raster graphic would blur or pixelate excessively if it were enlarged from business card size to billboard size.
FONTS
Fonts, when it comes to text please make sure the text has been converted if coming in a vector file or know the name of the font if it is coming in a non-vector file and they want that specific style of lettering. It’s very important to know the font name. A bad example is saying we want the “Purdue” University font. We would need to know the name of the font, trying to find it would be like a needle in a hay stack. There are millions of fonts and we could spend hours trying to find it, so narrowing down is a must. A good example is, They would like the “got milk” font which is called Phoenix or get one as close as possible.
Lists of names for shirts we will need you to email us the names. Also when you have a job with a lot of text like a sports tournament or senior shirts, where there will be a lot of names we want this in an email so we can cut down on spelling errors and time. It is a much more effective way of putting the text on the art work. I would avoid word Doc. and Spread Sheets due to the different versions and non-compatibility with different computers.
EMBROIDERY: When it comes to embroidery files we can open pxf. files and dst. files. One important note the dst file is a permanent file, it not meant to be changed or altered. Sometimes we can resize it but not much, and maybe get rid of a color but it is very rare to change a dst. File. If it needs changing it might need to be re-digitized. The pxf. file is workable file, we can make changes with little to no problem.
Digitization is the process of turning your art file into an embroidered stitch logo. The current cost is $6.50 per 1000 stitches.
What Are Vector Images?
Vector images are images described by shapes such as circles and squares, as opposed to bitmap images which are described by pixels - squares of color arranged in a grid. The shapes are precise mathematical descriptions of the image and can be scaled without becoming blurry or "pixelated" (that blocky look that bitmap/raster images so often get when scaled up). Vector Art, in contrast, is described by the mathematical formulas of the shapes that make it up. Vector art is a design that can break apart and be changed, like color, size, depth, and text. As a result, the vector art can be viewed at any size without any blurriness or pixilation. It also means that you can change the image in more useful ways. For example, if your vector image contains a circle, you can easily just change the size of that circle, or even transform it into an ellipse (a type of oval). That would not be possible in a bitmap image. When providing us vector art it is important to make sure the file has been converted and vectorized to insure we are getting the purest form of their art.
Vector Image File Formats
• CDR – The file name for CorelDRAW. A vector based program largely used in the screen printing industry. It’s file name is cdr. The vector art created in Corel can be saved in the file format eps and pdf.
• AI *- The native format of Adobe Illustrator is the AI format (Adobe Illustrator Artwork), AI vector art can be saved in eps and pdf files * Corel Draw cannot open AI file unless they are saved as a pdf or eps and the file is converted and the font is converted to and outline. Adobe Illustrator or ai. files can be vector files, but are a format we cannot open. It is more used in the paper printing industry. They can be saved as eps. or pdf. Once saved in either of the two formats they can be used by us, but the person who created it in AI can do this, we cannot.
FILES VECTOR ART CAN BE SAVED IN TO BE OPENED IN COREL DRAW
• EPS - (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common file to save a vector image format. It is the standard interchange format in the print industry.
• PDF -(Portable Document Format) is very widely used as a general purpose platform- independent document format. And while it is not exclusively used as such, it is also a very good file to save a vector image format.
Please remember to convert all text to outlines or curves as opposed to fonts.
Vector art files that are not bitmap embedded images saved in a .cdr (CorelDraw), eps or .pdf.
What Is Vectorization?
Vectorization, is the process of converting a bitmap image to a vector image.
It can be done by hand ("hand-tracing"), or by a computer using a program like Corel Draw and rebuilding the image.
This is the process of converting a bitmap image - described by a grid of tiny little pixels - into vector art, where the shapes are described with mathematical formulas. The main benefits of vector art are that it can be scaled without causing pixelation or blurriness, and that it can be edited in a much more intuitive way than pixel-based images. Anyway, The flip side of converting from vector art to a bitmap is easy as pie. In fact, any program that displays vector art has to convert it to a bitmap just to display it on the screen. The technical word for that process is "rasterization." The opposite process that of converting from a bitmap to vector art is not so easy. In fact, it is a somewhat ill-posed problem. The "standard" way to convert from a bitmap to a vector representation is for a human designer to just redraw the art in a vector editor. This is time consuming and frustrating, but it leads to consistently good results, and it is what people are used to.
Vector images are images described by shapes such as circles and squares, as opposed to bitmap images which are described by pixels - squares of color arranged in a grid. The shapes are precise mathematical descriptions of the image and can be scaled without becoming blurry or "pixelated" (that blocky look that bitmap/raster images so often get when scaled up). Vector Art, in contrast, is described by the mathematical formulas of the shapes that make it up. Vector art is a design that can break apart and be changed, like color, size, depth, and text. As a result, the vector art can be viewed at any size without any blurriness or pixilation. It also means that you can change the image in more useful ways. For example, if your vector image contains a circle, you can easily just change the size of that circle, or even transform it into an ellipse (a type of oval). That would not be possible in a bitmap image. When providing us vector art it is important to make sure the file has been converted and vectorized to insure we are getting the purest form of their art.
Vector Image File Formats
• CDR – The file name for CorelDRAW. A vector based program largely used in the screen printing industry. It’s file name is cdr. The vector art created in Corel can be saved in the file format eps and pdf.
• AI *- The native format of Adobe Illustrator is the AI format (Adobe Illustrator Artwork), AI vector art can be saved in eps and pdf files * Corel Draw cannot open AI file unless they are saved as a pdf or eps and the file is converted and the font is converted to and outline. Adobe Illustrator or ai. files can be vector files, but are a format we cannot open. It is more used in the paper printing industry. They can be saved as eps. or pdf. Once saved in either of the two formats they can be used by us, but the person who created it in AI can do this, we cannot.
FILES VECTOR ART CAN BE SAVED IN TO BE OPENED IN COREL DRAW
• EPS - (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common file to save a vector image format. It is the standard interchange format in the print industry.
• PDF -(Portable Document Format) is very widely used as a general purpose platform- independent document format. And while it is not exclusively used as such, it is also a very good file to save a vector image format.
Please remember to convert all text to outlines or curves as opposed to fonts.
Vector art files that are not bitmap embedded images saved in a .cdr (CorelDraw), eps or .pdf.
What Is Vectorization?
Vectorization, is the process of converting a bitmap image to a vector image.
It can be done by hand ("hand-tracing"), or by a computer using a program like Corel Draw and rebuilding the image.
This is the process of converting a bitmap image - described by a grid of tiny little pixels - into vector art, where the shapes are described with mathematical formulas. The main benefits of vector art are that it can be scaled without causing pixelation or blurriness, and that it can be edited in a much more intuitive way than pixel-based images. Anyway, The flip side of converting from vector art to a bitmap is easy as pie. In fact, any program that displays vector art has to convert it to a bitmap just to display it on the screen. The technical word for that process is "rasterization." The opposite process that of converting from a bitmap to vector art is not so easy. In fact, it is a somewhat ill-posed problem. The "standard" way to convert from a bitmap to a vector representation is for a human designer to just redraw the art in a vector editor. This is time consuming and frustrating, but it leads to consistently good results, and it is what people are used to.
