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Hand Lettering
If i'm drawing out some letters to use for a sign, what's the best method to get them on the computer?
I know to scan it, but if i'm working in illustrator with a script like text, should i simply use the "lettering option" in the live trace thing and just go with it, or am i supposed to go over it with the pen tool?
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Hi. If you like what you've got on paper, drop a greyscale scan into your Illustrator doc, turn down the transparency, pop a new layer over it and get busy with the pen & smoothing tools. Like any graphic your tracing. You'll get a beautifully crisp & sharp vector path. Don't you find live trace can sometimes be pretty good, but a lot of the time you get something a bit 'quick & dirty'? I do. Of course, you might want 'edgy' for this project...? But Pen tool is king, eh? You're the boss! If you've got some spare time and you do a lot of script text stuff, maybe download a free or trial font creator and turn your best ones into a full blown font? Many a designer makes a few pennies from custom fonts. Good luck chap (or chap-ess?)
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