Vectors & Photoshop Shapes.

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Vectors & Photoshop Shapes.

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I was given a hand-drawn logo to turn into a vector graphic, so what I did (of course) was scan it & trace it with photoshop's pen tool. The thing is, there were a few different shapes in the logo, so I had to create seperate shapes in photoshop. How would I go about combining all the shapes so that they are resizeable as one object?
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Group them? Smart object? Send them to Illustrator and make a "real" vector out of it?
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I don't have illustrator. Oh well... I just saved it in as a pdf... that's good enough for now.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I don't have illustrator. Oh well... I just saved it in as a pdf... that's good enough for now.
I thought if you clicked the little "chain-link" icon they'd group like feyd said... then any operation on one layer applies to all layers (transformations, filters etc). You can ungroup them after you're done.
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That did not work when resizing... it just resized the selected layer.
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Putting the layers into a folder allows alteration of all layers inside the folder so long as you have the folder selected.
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Post by kyoru »

i highly recommend that you use illustrator, a dedicated vector program. it will save you alot of headache instead of using photoshop.
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