Comments on: VectorMagic Review

By: reza vatankhah

reza vatankhah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:34:12 +0000

http://www.vectormagic.ir

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By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:25:05 +0000

Ages ago I was using the free beta of vector magic, and I did think it was better than anything else on offer. But now having to pay for the service? No. The cost per conversion is just too high for me when I have to purchase tokens now for the rare instance I may need to do some samples for clients.

I would of been happier if they had added advertising into the website and process rather than charging for the online service, and for a desktop version, I would consider buying, but ONLY if it offered extra options, or gave a serious increase in processing speed of the conversion.

Personally I think I may be sticking with the two free conversions for each free sign up. Looks like I may be telling everyone to use free throw away email accounts to do their processing rather than spend money on the tokens. It is a time consuming way of getting it done, but for the amount of times I use the vector magic conversion, I find that the cheapest alternative.

By: turk pornosu

turk pornosu — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:56:49 +0000

I’d pay $50 maximum for that, turk porno but asking for more is insane. And I’m currently using Windoze XP, but Vista is a permanent nonstarter so I’m going Linux - what’s with the intention to only support Windoze and Macs? Come on, Vector Magic! First, keep the online service a free one.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:51:29 +0000

Anyone else see Wired’s latest issue on the value of FREE? Give away the feature, charge for convenience. Theyre close in their methods, but the romance is gone.

How many people bought an iPod because of the accesories?

There are other options, the trick is making your goods the more swank.

What is the price of ads on Picassa? Oh well, back to Illustrator.

By: Former VectorMagic Fan

Former VectorMagic Fan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:51:20 +0000

I’ve been using VectorMagic for a while now and have been more than pleased with the very excellent results. However, I just discovered today that they’ve gone commercial and I am very unhappy about their method. Their token thing is far too expensive and I can only imagine what obscene price they’re dreaming of for the desktop version given that the first $50 spent on tokens can be applied to it if/when it ever becomes available. Look, VectorMagic is great, but it’s a single function application - I’d pay $50 maximum for that, but asking for more is insane. And I’m currently using Windoze XP, but Vista is a permanent nonstarter so I’m going Linux - what’s with the intention to only support Windoze and Macs? Come on, Vector Magic! First, keep the online service a free one. Then go ahead and make a desktop version for the professionals who need more throughput, quality, etc. and sell it for $100. Taking away the free service and charging a lot for the software won’t get you anything but a tiny niche market whereas keeping the free online service will get you a lot of goodwill and market mindshare, both of which lead to increased purchases when happy private users go to work and sing your praises to their employers. Somebody hasn’t been paying attention to their business and marketing lessons :-(

By: Giyontin Kesim

Giyontin Kesim — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:31:25 +0000

really awesome,thanks for that

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vectorisation de fichier bitmap — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:46:23 +0000

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By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:29:47 +0000

Nice post Bitt, please ignore the first post. I forgot to close the hyperlink. :( Here’s a funny coincidence. Looks like this one which has Magic in the title too is made by 2 guys as well. It looks more like it’s geared towards engineers and CAD rather than designers though.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:18 +0000

Nice post Bitt. Here’s a funny coincidence. Looks like this one which has Magic in the title too is

By: surferjo

surferjo — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:59:53 +0000

isn’t free stuff just the best…

Keep up the good work Bitt.

By: wmwebtr ödüllü seo yar??mas?

wmwebtr ödüllü seo yar??mas? — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:30:57 +0000

Thanks i like it.

By: ic mekan aydinlatma

ic mekan aydinlatma — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:32 +0000

perfect

By: Tami

Tami — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:29:31 +0000

Ah, I just found VectorMagic the other day. I used it to transform a black/white logo that I had drawn & scanned in to Photoshop (a program I’m pretty familiar with). Since I’m just learning Illustrator I thought that this would be a good way to get started. The only caveat I have coming from a newbie is that they don’t offer a black and transparency option - just black/white or black/white/grayscale. Turns out that they make the bottom layer into a complete black shape, not an outlined shape. So if I tried to change the fill of the upper layers from white to transparent I see the black from the bottom layer. I can’t seem to figure out a good way to change this other than to start from scratch and trace it myself. But I did try it with the logo colored in and it looks great!

Ah, and your site looks like it has amazing tips/tutorials. I’m definitely bookmarking this and coming back for more lessons. Good luck with the move!

By: Random Syntax » Precision Vectorization

Random Syntax » Precision Vectorization — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:18:18 +0000

[...] Well pretty exact if you try Vector Magic - an online tool. [...]

By: VectorMagic: vettorializzare immagini online

VectorMagic: vettorializzare immagini online — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:13:51 +0000

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By: Sundancer

Sundancer — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:11:03 +0000

This will really make life easier in the office! Only one of our artists has CS2, and we are constantly bugging him to live trace all the tiny jpg logos our client sends us, which we then have to go in and try to figure out what font they used and replace it.
This program worked BETTER then live trace at getting logos accurate!

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:56:34 +0000

they need some interface design help.

But other than that, great find and awesome tool!

By: Ahmad Alfy

Ahmad Alfy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:31:00 +0000

OMG AWESOME!!
2 guys did all that!? THIS IS BRILLIANT!

By: john

john — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:22:04 +0000

Their site smacks of “GOOG®, buy us!” and confirms my longstanding suspicion of Stanford - the ultimate tech darling billionaire incubating drop out school.

Aside from that, it rawks!

By: fadz9

fadz9 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:04:27 +0000

WHAT AN AMAZING TOOL! WOW!

AWSOME