Welcome to your personal vector artwork department at Pixelide.
Place bulk raster to vector conversion orders using a Free, online Workspace.

Pixelide's online ordering solution offers precision, hand traced vector artwork conversion services and online delivery of print ready files. Your own vector artwork team is available 24x6. Most raster or bitmap to vector conversion orders are completed within 24 hours. Print ready files and camera ready artwork are created by vectorization of raster or scanned image files, website logos or GIF files, hand written sketches instructions or themes.

3 Steps to place Vector Artwork Service orders:
Everything is done from your Free, personal online image workspace.

1. Upload for raster / bitmap image files
2. Use ready made forms or draw/write instructions directly on screen
3. Place your order via the Free online workspace.


Why choose Pixelide's Vector Artwork Service?
› 24 hour/next business day vectorization service
› Chat online, directly with your own artwork team
› 24/7 secure online access to print ready files and artwork orders
› Online proofing and JPEG previews of vectorized files
› Bulk image management and online ordering tools
› Send original vector files to anyone via your own branded, private invites

Features & Benefits:
› Order Vector Artwork service online, directly from your Free image workspace.
› Use flexible instructions modules: Draw/write directly on screen or use ready made vector order forms.
› Easily select PMS colors, vector output options and color separation options.
› Free online proofing and corrections. Get up to 3 print ready file formats upon your approval.
› Hassle Free raster / bitmap to vector conversion service with online delivery. Monitor progress in real time.
› Your own vector artwork department: Chat online with your dedicated vector graphics team.
› The service is 100% secure and web enabled. It is accessible at any time from anywhere.


Pixelide's Vector Artwork conversion services:

Get your own, highly competitive team of artwork technicians.
Pxielide offers Raster to vector conversion services via the Free online Workspace.

- Save time and money by using Pixelide's 100% secure, online ordering modules.
- Vector artwork orders include upto 3 vectorized files, Free JPEG previews. Chat directly with our artwork QA team.

Basic vector conversions. - Logos or artwork with a few shapes. - Simple background cutouts or add text.	Moderate vector conversions. - Logo or artwork with greater details. - Background cutouts, redraw text.	Multiplex vector conversions. - Intricate hand tracing of shapes or text. - Combine upto 3 logos into single artwork.
Basic vector conversions. 24 hour service...........$16.00 48 hour service............$12.00 72 hour service............$8.00	Moderate vector conversions. 24 hour service............$45.00 48 hour service............$40.00 72 hour service............$35.00	Multiplex vector conversions. 48 hour service............$85.00 72 hour service............$75.00

Pixelide ensures the highest conversion quality of your artwork.
Color separated files are delivered online in your personal image Workspace.

Color separation services: 1. Any single color or one color (black and white) recreation 2. Use of black and white halftones to provide depth 3. Using Spot Colors for screen / silk screen printing purpose 4. Using Spot Colors with halftone to get more colors effect 5. Multi / full color recreation of original artwork
Color separation service examples: *Black background is used to illustrate how color separation process works. Example: 1 - The logo has 3 Spot colors: Red, Yellow and Cyan. - For a crisper look we used halftones of all 3 colors. - We provide a color separated version of your artwork. You can forward to your printing service provider, to get exact output on any product or paper. - To make color separated artwork files, we redraw each and every part of the logo as a whole object. This procedure fills colors and at the time of separation we can change it's color to Black and White so it can cut the overlapping part of other colors.
Example: 2 - 1st color is CYAN. This is a color separated version of Cyan color. - When CYAN color is separated, where ever the CYAN color is present in the logo, it becomes black (shown as CYAN here). All other colors become white and can cut any other objects overlapping any other colors.
Example: 3 - 2nd color is RED. This is a color separated version of RED color. - When RED color is separated, where ever the RED color is present in the logo, it becomes black (shown as RED here). All other colors become white and can cut any other objects overlapping any other colors.
Example: 4 - 3rd and last color is YELLOW. This is sample of color separated version of YELLOW color. - When YELLOW color is separated, where ever the YELLOW color is present in the logo, it becomes black (shown as YELLOW here). All other colors become white and can cut any other objects overlapping any other colors.
Hand Traced artwork vs. Software based vector artwork. Redrawn artwork examples show the accuracy and major difference between hand traced artwork vs. tracing softwares or online vector conversion websites. Why hand traced artwork is better? - These examples of conversion quality clearly helps you compare them at first sight and see the difference. - Tracing programs have several limitations. They are not able to provide text as real text. They can only provide rough line work of text. Our technicians places text in the same fonts used in your original artwork. - The main purpose of recreating artwork is to get EDITABLE artwork for changing colors and any other required changes in future. Our Art Department creates all artwork in different parts that are 100% editable in future, so you or your print service provider can make changes as per your requirement. - Softwares can not reproduce the artwork on SPOT colors, they can only provide artwork in CMYK and all objects are merged. This limits future conversions into spot colors. - Softwares typically do not create a perfect gradation of colors. Instead, they provide different colors, that can't match with the original artwork or represent smooth colors.

Get camera or print ready files with ease and correct output formats.

Color Separation.
To make a print ready files or camera ready artwork, you may require color separated output files.
Final vector artwork files are created accurately with the right color mode and separation guidelines.

Artwork Color Schemes.
- SPOT Colors without halftone: It's simple to separate colors
- Spot colors with halftone: It's complex to separate colors
- CMYK colors : It's not possible at our end to separate colors
- Black and white : If you want to print vector artwork in white color

See through images.
In some cases, clients want to print images as 1 or 2 colors and would like to show Product’s color as 1 color. Such artwork are called "SEE THROUGH" artwork, for printing on Glass, T-shirts, Koozies etc.

Spot Color separation vs. CMYK color mode.
Spot color separation is the process of separating a color image into its individual printing colors. It is used to when colors are not mixed in the printing process. Each spot color is represented by it's own specially pre-mixed inks.

CMYK color mode is used mostly for raster files. This mode is referred to as full, 4 color process. It is used to reproduce color images by creating and superimposing halftone dots from the four basic colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

The vector output format depends on the output process requested by your printer.

Line art and Gray Scale images.
It is important to know whether the image will be printed as gray scale or line-art before the actual conversion takes place.
Line art images have only two solid colors: black and white. They are generally "flat" images that do not require depth.

Gray scale images are frequently referred to as "halftones". They have percentages of gray, white and black tones. To contain costs, most gray scale images are re-created into line-art.

Printing Costs.
Spot color printing may cost less. If the file does not have a multitude of colors and you can limit the printing to 1, 2 or 3 colors, it will cost less than the 4 color or full color CMYK process. Generally there is a limit on how many spot colors you can use on your printing


File Prep Guide.
You have a choice of upto 3 output formats:
One of the three could be a JPEG preview of your vector artwork.

Vector output formats:
EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
AI - Adobe Illustrator
CDR - CorelDRAW

Raster output formats:
BMP - Bitmap
GIF - CompuServe
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG - Portable Network Graphics Bitmap
PSD - Adobe Photoshop
SCT - Scitex CT
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
SWF - Macromedia Flash
TGA - Targa
TIFF - Tag Image File Format  
PDF - PDFs can originate from either vector or raster files

What is Vector Artwork service?

It lets you place online orders for vector artwork conversion. A team of experienced graphic art technicians convert bitmap / raster images and photo files into vector images. Artwork tracing is done by hand. We make scalable vector files that can be used to print on a variety of applications besides paper. Vector art lets you scale an image without making it blurry or pixilated.

How do I place an Artwork order?

Three quick steps to place an order:

1. Signup for a Free Workspace account
2. Upload your artwork
3. Place your order directly from the workspace

We ensure proper conversion by being in close touch with you during the entire process. You can communicate directly to our technicians if needed with concerns on any particular Job ID, directly from the workspace.

How do I receive Vector files?

Getting your vector artwork is simple. Your Workspace offers complete online order management. It lets you approve the free JPEG proof. Upon payment, all the related artwork files are copied into your own personal Image Archive. You can download original files or instantly share them with your clients or vendors.
The Workspace helps you replace the conventional way of handling orders.

What is the turn around time and pricing structure?

Choose from a 24 hours rush job service or save some money by ordering 2-3 business day turnaround. Most artwork is completed well in advance. This helps us both with extra time to tweaks and updates if needed.  

Pricing starts as low as $10.00 for simple logo re-drawing and line art work.

How do I open Vector files?

Vector files are generally made for the final printer using them. You need a professional graphics program such as Adobe or Corel to open vector files.

The Pixelide workspace offers you a free JPEG preview of your vector artwork, which eliminates the need to open vector artwork files.

What is the accuracy and warranty of Vector Artwork service?

Our technicians convert artwork according to the accuracy of your instructions.
With every order, you receive a free JPEG Proof. Only after your approval, final vector art files are uploaded into your workspace.

If the converted art files do not meet your expectations, you can instantly request corrections or tweaks - directly from the Workspace. We help you bypass time consuming phone calls and emails. All communication regarding any Job ID is done within your Free Workspace.

What file formats are supported?

File formats you can upload for vector artwork conversion:
.JPG, .TIFF. .PSD, .BMP, .AI, .EPS, .CDR, .PDF, .DOC

You will receive a JPEG preview of raster or bitmaps converted to vector artwork files, plus up to two additional vector output formats. Choices are:
.TIFF, .AI, .EPS, .PDF, .CDR, .PSD, .GIF, .BMP

What is a Color Separation process?

Example:
You have a raster / bitmap file of a monogram with two colors.
You need a color separated, camera or print ready output.

- we create a black and white line artwork
- you provide the 2 unique colors [any Pantone shade]
- specify which letter gets the respective color, i.e. Color A and Color B
- the shape / letters determine "upper color A and lower color B"
- above maintains continuity of color, mostly controlled by the shape of the monogram itself

- we would then create total 4 files, where 2 will be color separated
1. black and white line art that represents the original shape accurately
2. Colors filled into each shape, i.e. letter as per above example
3. Separate file with Color A. Any overlap from lower color B will be cut out.
4. Separate file with Color B. Any overlap from upper color A will be cut out.

What are typical output / print methods for vector artwork?

To receive the vector conversion suitable for a particular print method, you may specify output formats such as:
Hot Stamping, Embossed / Debossed, Digital Output, Screen Printing / Silk Screen, Offset Printing, or any other formats. You may also specify the imprint size of your vector conversion in inches or mm.