this is straight out of the scanner no modification at all. I signed an envelope with a run of the mill blue bic pen, scanned it, converted it and saved it in less time than it took to type this up and send it off.all in adobe streamline 4.0. Hmmm.I must say it does have a nice ring to it! ) So.shall we call you "Doctor" DeMeyer? It seems like only yesterday you were an undergrad (he, he). The results are near perfect almost good enough to sign checks with (ha ha). We then Raster the vectors because they engrave faster that way at that size. Once you laser them they are reduced in size so that any in perfection won't be seen. Typically no more than 5 minutes and it is in vector. Make some minor adjustments with curves etc. Zoom in to page size then use the freehand drawing tool and draw right over the top of the scanned image. The way we do signatures is to scan it and bring it into Corel. Usually I'll have the scanner (HP precisionscan) convert it to vector, and I'd do minimal cleanup. I like the Sharpie "ultra fine point", and the 1mm gel roller pens. You will usually end up with a single line perfect trace that can be reduced to fit and look perfect. Select 'Bitmaps/Trace' and trace it as a centerline trace. Cut out the best looking one and bring it into Corel Draw as black/white. (The ones with the tapered and rounded top are also called fine point but are the blunted tip.) It will either be a ball point Sharpie or the thin fiber tip one. Use the fine point sharpie with the squarish cap. Have them sign a page five times, larger than normal. The way I do it, infrequent as it is, is quite simple. Wow! and here I thought it was going to be some complex issue blah blah blah.I'll have to give it a try soon. It really is as simple as the last couple of posts indicates.because even if there are minor imperfections, they are simply not noticeable. I did the clean up in PhotoShop erasing and darkening where necessary, saved as a jpg, inserted into Corel, raster engraved and viola! I thought it worked pretty well with minimal effort. When I did a replica of my college degree I scanned in the signatures (one even signed with a thin pen) at a high dpi. (devil)Īs it was already mentioned it depends on how perfect you want it to be. Great thing is you get a collection of signatures to use other than you own. Believe it or not they scaned very well with only a minute of two of clean up. and Dean signatures signed in with some type of sharpie. I recently did some plaques for a midwestern university with the Pres. Quite often it depends on what type of pen they use. If you wish to Laser engrave it, Photoshop the image( signature), convert to greyscale, clean up all dust and scratches, adjust contrast, save as bitmap or Jpeg etc. I would think it would be quite laborious to clean up a signature.ĭepends on how perfect you want it to look. How does one go about engraving a signature? I am assuming it must be scanned, then cleaned and converted to a vector file.
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