You’ve all seen them.
Flowery, swirly, calligraphic vectors used for decorating brochures and generally making anything look awesome.
I’ve to compose a journal for my placement year to keep my lecturers happy, and I want to make it as outstanding as possible. However, coming across free vectors is like finding gold dust.
In my moment of despiration, I turn to you typophiles in search of some eclectic vector formats for use in print.
Regards,
Paul.
...coming across free vectors is like finding gold dust.
So buy some.
There are some nice ones from Dover that are very inexpensive. (oops, I guess there is only a .tif format)
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-2061420-9562522?initialSearch=1...
If you have CS2, there is a feature called Live Trace similar to Streamline that can vectorize the .tif files. (I just read this, so I can’t give you details)
Try looking on istockphoto.com, they have tons of cheap ($1 - $4) vector files like that. Search for the same descriptive words you used above.
iStock Photo is good. Also check out shutterstock.com and youworkforthem.com
istockphoto vectors should be taken with caution, some are well created, some are right lash-ups. Have a look at Adobe exchange forums (same conditions apply).
Tim
Anyone have any experience with the CS2 Live Trace feature? Does it work pretty well?
I’ve used it in Illustrator for the odd piece, it’s practically uneditable once you have it in vector format (or as far as I’ve found anyway).
It has a setting for vectoring raster versions of type though - piracy anyone?
>CS2 Live Trace feature
The better the original, the better the outcome and some of the options work better than others, no substitute for starting from scratch and beziering it up though (sorry for that verb), certainly unimpressive when used to recreate type though.
Tim
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