Convert a logo to a vector

[The goblin]

Hi

A colleague designed my logo for me and I now want to use it for producing bespoke goods with it on. Alas the company require it as a vector, it's all text. Is there an easy way to convert this in photoshop CC?

I would ask my friend if she could send it to me as a vector, but I asked AGES ago what font she used and she never got back to me so I doubt I'll get anything back.

I have googled it, repeatedly, but I only seem to get old tutorials and I struggle making it fit with CC.

If I have posted this in the wrong place, apologies!

 

[johnsy]

If it is text, it should be fairly easy to trace it using illustrator. Post the image and I'll have a go.

 

[The goblin]

Alas I don't have illustrator. But many thanks, I've stuck it on dropbox, it's only small, so didn't want to lose what little detail there is!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ug3782kcf9gx6gl/MC Logo.jpg?dl=0

 

[Alejandro]

but I asked AGES ago what font she used and she never got back to me so I doubt I'll get anything back.

You might already know this but your name is in the "Zapfino" font (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapfino). Comes as standard on Mac computers, not sure about Windows. Unfortunately I'm not a font expert so couldn't say what the other font is - sorry!

 

[The goblin]

I did some investigative work and discovered what it was. Yup, got it on my MacBook but not on my PC. Not wishing to pay the $55 fee for it either! The photography part is Geosans light.

 

[johnsy]

Tried running it through live trace in illustrator and it's not as good as the original. Do you have a larger version of the jpg?

 

[The goblin]

Oh boo. Many thanks for trying. Alas the JPEGs I got given were about 80kb each, not sure they'll be any good.

 

[ianp5a]

You can trace it easily with Inkscape. http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape is a popular vector program. And it's free!
Use the "Path - Trace Bitmap" command to automatically trace it. It takes less than a second.
Set the number of colours to 2 or 3, and the threshhold to a small number to be sure to get the small details.
I've just converted and saved a PDF as well as an SVG file. See this link https://copy.com/WwPvDGmYWOeTY6XR
Let me know if you need any refinement.

 

[The goblin]

You can trace it easily with Inkscape. http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape is a popular vector program. And it's free!
Use the "Path - Trace Bitmap" command to automatically trace it. It takes less than a second.
Set the number of colours to 2 or 3, and the threshhold to a small number to be sure to get the small details.
I've just converted and saved a PDF as well as an SVG file. See this link https://copy.com/WwPvDGmYWOeTY6XR
Let me know if you need any refinement.

Brilliant thank you.

This is why I love TP

 

[ianp5a]

Are you going to give inkscape a go? With a bit of tinkering, you could do a better job than I did. Particularly with the small text. As the bitmap resolution wasn't that high.

 

[The goblin]

Yeh, I'll take a look at it

 

[Denyerec]

Try www.vectormagic.com to start you off. It's produced insanely good results for me, you get two conversions free per email address used to sign up, so should be enough to experiment with.