So I am doing some more volinter work for the FT. Rucker NCO Acadamy, problem is I’m needing to make some flight crew badges but I can’t find prober vector art for them.
The flight crew badges are exactly the same as the pilot badges except the bars and coloms are replaced with the great seal. I managed a bitmap conversion of the seal but for the life of me I can’t figur out how to get rid of the bars and coloms in the shild without distroying the rest of it.
If someone can show me how to do this in either Corel x8 or Inkscape I’ll owe you one.
I’m not clear on what you’re asking for. So from the top logos with wings and a shield, you want to remove the shield and replace it with the eagle from below? Or you just want to remove the horizontal and vertical lines from the shield? Or something else?
If only I had inkscape at work, I’d certainly give this a go. If you haven’t heard back from anyone by the time I get home, I’ll give it a shot at that time.
From what I remember of other images I was messing around with, make sure to join/combine everything into a single path, Then create the shape you want to “cut out” of the original. Place it carefully (I like using outlines to help with this part), and then select the two shapes and select Difference. Try it and see if it works.
Quick question- do you want a write-up of how to do it yourself, or just the cleaned up file? I think I figured out a way to do it but it’s a bit fiddly. It’ll take me a lot longer to write it up than to just do it myself and send it over.
Not sure for IS, but in AI I just made a simple shape with the pen tool by clicking each outer point, and then used the curvature tool to drag the lines in to fit the shape’s curve. Less than a minute to get this:
and then a boolean operation to knock out the stuff behind it.
Just for future reference, if you set fill to ‘none’ and stroke to black you can see why you couldn’t separate the outline from the bars. Effectively, there’s no difference between the shield outline and the bars
There’s also a way in Inkscape that you can go through an delete the segments that you don’t want, and create new segments between the outline points that you do want. It’s pretty much the same end result as tracing over the other points.
1: Use the pen tool > Match the shape of the shield with the pen tool > use the direct selection tool to box around the shield and new path > use pathfinder to subtract front > this creates a shield outline.
2: Select all > use the the shape builder tool > select all space between the shield lines > this creates an all black shield with no lines.
No problem! In Inkscape you’ll want to turn on object snapping, and specifically “snap cusp nodes,” otherwise the path tool won’t snap to the existing points.
This is 2 minute down and dirty as I’m running out the door to work :-/ Is this kinda what you need though? (Wasn’t sure if you still needed the black shield part.) You can just add the the seal.
In Corel select image> “Break” apart > select the bars/stripes and delete>select all the inner feather and combine again.
To get rid of black shield part pull nodes of shield down so the wings are just attached at the bottom> use erase tool on the little connection piece between the wings> then clean up/smooth the nodes.
Dang it! Can;t get the SVG to show right, but I’m out of time…Save it and see if it opens right for you…
