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StuartE


Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Post Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:03 pm     Reply with quote

I don't, I'm no where artistic enough to do that - I can make a photo sing, I can convert it into an illustration (somewhat more convincingly than just running a filter over it, btw), but to create a vector image by hand would just drive me batty - although I'm pretty good at paths now, so maybe I should give it a try sometime - I'd start off with Photoshop CS, because I have it, and I'm told it handles vectors better now... :-) I'm sure those that do create vector illustrations have their favourite packages...

Cheers,
Stuart
Pixelpizzazz


Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 64
Post Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:44 pm     Reply with quote

This is GREAT!

What version of Illustrator did you want them saved as? I have CS - but the purchasers might not.
shutterstock


Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 1882
Location: New York, NY
Post Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:06 pm     Reply with quote

Pixelpizzazz wrote:
This is GREAT!

What version of Illustrator did you want them saved as? I have CS - but the purchasers might not.


save them as .eps
rodehi


Joined: 11 Jan 2005
Posts: 1914
Location: British Columbia Canada
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:19 am     Reply with quote

Wow 4 vectors in the top 50 already......Ron
StuartE


Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:08 am     Reply with quote

Hopefully that'll bring a whole new target audience, who might be seduced into downloading some of the lovingly crafted photographs, too... :-)

Cheers,
Stuart
screenfx


Joined: 30 Mar 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Colorado
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:53 am     Reply with quote

The most popular vector editing software are Freehand, Illustrator, and Corel Draw. For now at least SS is only accepting eps file accompanied by jpeg representations. There are a lot of compatibility issues with vectors, and I'm guess that's why they're sticking to eps. This means the files have to be exported as eps rather than saving the files in their native format. Vector drawing is not something you can learn overnight. It is VERY different than paint programs. There are some less expensive shareware vector editing software out there though the names ecsape me right now, but make sure if you go that route they export to eps or be prepared to purchase some software that can convert to eps.
Pixelpizzazz


Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 64
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:44 am     Reply with quote

shutterstock wrote:
Pixelpizzazz wrote:
This is GREAT!

What version of Illustrator did you want them saved as? I have CS - but the purchasers might not.


save them as .eps


Thanks Jon. What I meant was with Adobe Illustrator, when you save as .eps you automatically get it saved at the CS version of Illustrator. You can also export it to save the .eps as an Illustrator legacy EPS(versions 10 and under). A file that is saved as .eps CS, is not backward compatible to users of older versions of Illustrator (from what I understand).

So my question is, what version of illustrator do you want the .eps saved as (CS, 10, 9, 8, 3).

Maybe the other artists could chime in a say what they think since the only file is going to be the eps. I guess we'll find out from the downloaders anyway if the versions are too high with CS, right.

Anyway, just trying to be proactive.

Thanks for the help.
shutterstock


Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 1882
Location: New York, NY
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:03 am     Reply with quote

Pixelpizzazz wrote:
shutterstock wrote:
Pixelpizzazz wrote:
This is GREAT!

What version of Illustrator did you want them saved as? I have CS - but the purchasers might not.


save them as .eps


Thanks Jon. What I meant was with Adobe Illustrator, when you save as .eps you automatically get it saved at the CS version of Illustrator. You can also export it to save the .eps as an Illustrator legacy EPS(versions 10 and under). A file that is saved as .eps CS, is not backward compatible to users of older versions of Illustrator (from what I understand).

So my question is, what version of illustrator do you want the .eps saved as (CS, 10, 9, 8, 3).

Maybe the other artists could chime in a say what they think since the only file is going to be the eps. I guess we'll find out from the downloaders anyway if the versions are too high with CS, right.

Anyway, just trying to be proactive.

Thanks for the help.


8.0 is probably the best way to go....
Pixelpizzazz


Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 64
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:39 am     Reply with quote

Super - thanks for that info. Looking forward to getting my eps files up.

Thanks Jon. I'm very pleased with how things have been going!
concretedonkey


Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 28
Location: canada
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:07 pm     Reply with quote

CRAZY ...... my daily average with 50 images is around 4 downloads a day. Now on the first day i upload my vectors i have 40 Downloads in one day. That's CRAZY.

My Gallery is at : http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=4700
shutterstock


Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 1882
Location: New York, NY
Post Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:14 pm     Reply with quote

concretedonkey wrote:
CRAZY ...... my daily average with 50 images is around 4 downloads a day. Now on the first day i upload my vectors i have 40 Downloads in one day. That's CRAZY.

My Gallery is at : http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=4700


They love the vectors!
StuartE


Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Post Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:22 am     Reply with quote

Yeah yeah, now just wait for the "I'm losing sales to those vector people..." posts next... :-)

Cheers,
Stuart
MHD


Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 661
Location: Canberra, Australia
Post Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:32 am     Reply with quote

I'm losing sales to those vector people!

(hmmm.... )
stockphotoblogger


Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Posts: 82
Location: Canada
Post Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:07 am     Reply with quote

screenfx wrote:
There are some less expensive shareware vector editing software out there though the names ecsape me right now, but make sure if you go that route they export to eps or be prepared to purchase some software that can convert to eps.


I have downloaded and experimented with www.inkscape.org

But on my system it is not particularily stable
ragnarawk


Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 247
Location: Toronto
Post Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:25 am     Reply with quote

I did, too. Seems alright for me, so far, though. Win2k Pro here.
 
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