Help with Flag for Father's Day 1

[7Greg7]

Hello everyone,

For Father's Day, I have created a flag in photoshop. I wanted to have this 4'x6' flag made as a gift, but the company who makes the flags tells me that they can only accept the artwork in vector format. (eps)

I tried to do this myself, but I am brand new to Illustrator and quite frankly, I am lost.

Anyone willing to babysit me on this one?

I've uploaded the complete psd file to my server if anyone wants to take a crack at it.

I've also uploaded each individual layer as a psd file:
Background, Text, and Star.

The files are here:

http://www.focusflare.com/flag/

I sincerely appreciate any help.

Greg

 

[eastbayrk]

HAHA! Dude! Okay I am looking at it in two parts right now.

In illy open a new document, Find the Font you used for WADE then Type that out using the type tool.

Next go into your photoshop layers pallete and turn off the WADE portion so that just the star is shown. Flatten the artwork so that just the star is shown with a white background.

Next save this as a jpeg to your desktop, and open it in Illustrator. Click on the Star and a select box will form around the white space around the star. with this selected go to Object , LiveTrace, Make and Expand. This is going to convert all the white in the image to a vector object as well as the black. So next click the background white and delete it so that all you have is the star. Now copy and paste the star into the WADE document you made earlier. You will now just have to Arrange the Text to be above the Star color your stuff on you are good to go.

I figure you should do this rather then us do it for you since you wont learn anything in this program without doing.

Hope i explained it fine

 

[apepp]

...or, here is a PDF you can use:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=0fb18e24-1bc3-11dd-b3c1-e587595d61d6

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...if you can't get that because of flash not installed, you can get the illustrator file from here:

http://download.yousendit.com/0E392E9E4A4D47BC

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...if you use the illustrator file from link above, the font is rockwell bold and the dingbat for the star, which you should have installed, as those were the ones it used when i opened the psd file, well, apart from the star, but i soon worked that out...

...from illustrator, file > save as...

...choose illustrator eps...

...the eps will include 3mm bleed around the edge...

Andrew

 

[7Greg7]

eastbayrk, I appreciate the explaination, but I leave for vacation on Thursday and just don't have the time to take this any further. I will try your steps once I return from Yosemite.

apepp,
It was the Rockwell font that I used as well as the dingbat for the star. Thank you so much for completing this for me. As stated above, I'm in a but of a time crunch. I know he will love this gift and I will remember your helping hand everytime I see it. (Yes, a heping hand means that much to some: namely, me)

Thanks again guys,
Geg

 

[apepp]

...nice one greg, a great gift, i'm sure he will have a huge grin and chuckle when he sees it...

...big balloons too whilst your at it...

Andrew