Need help redrawing this logo.

This is the only copy I have. I have illustrator and photoshop but cannot figure out how to do it. Please any help would be appreciated.:confused:

In Illustrator you'd have to use a gradient mesh for the bird and another one for the globe.

i have to redraw it first though and the copy i have is so small. it's only 26k and i want to redraw it so it can be sized for anything. PLEASE HELP!!!

I don't know if this is of any help with Xara you can make it any size you wish.
Does your program not have an enlarging device in it. Then trace it and save it to the size you want.

Do you have any familiarity at all with Illustrator?
In order to resize it you'll have to turn it into a vector image, which you'll be doing by tracing it with the Pen Tool. You can resize the version you have in order to trace, but basically you'll have a lot of manual work to do.

Well let's give you a start. I have a globe which was done in Illy which you will find attached. The object like the bird just use the Pen Tool and I wouldn't try using the Gradient Mesh Tool if you are asking how to do this logo just use a linear colour set to a angle that looks right and then if you want any extra colour in just use the Pen Tool give it colour with a little feathering so that it blends in with the gradient colour better. Have a shor yourself and come back with any problems

I guess i am not as good as i like to think. this is what i have after doing a live trace in illustrator. i don't know what to do from here.

paulkola you appear to be a beginner with computer illustration techniques, and while we all had to start somewhere at one time, I think your choice of software (apparently without any form of training or mentor or even many hours of practice) is probably your biggest hurdle at the moment.

Fortunately you have landed at the right place for help. TalkGraphics was set up by the Xara Group who produce probably the best and most intuitive illustration software on the planet. I might suggest that downloading a trial of Xara Xtreme and learning to use the Shape Editor, fills, feathers and transparencies will likely be a rewarding experience for you.

As you can see below, I could reproduce your logo for you, but you would learn little - so learn a few basic techniques with Xara and (eventually) you'll find even Illustrator will make more sense.

I am not as fortunate as yourself with CS2 at least because when I tried to open your file in CS there was nothing there. If you have gone to the expense of buying the software you will think nothing of spending another £20 or less buying a book with a CD to help you get the most out of Illy. The ones that I would recommend is "Adobe Illustrator CS? Classroom Book" or "Illustrator CS? Wow" will take you through the steps require to get you use to the pen tool.

Ok, here you go. Hopefully your guys will be happy with me. After much trials and tribulations I came up with this. But, I cannot figure out how to blend those two colors to make it look like original. ie: almost like fire. I am attaching the AICS2 file.:(

The way that you tried to do this would not give you any chance of Blending you would need to make smaller shapes and blend them to the background. Have a look at this, it is not really finished but it is a way that you could do it and the add smaller shapes. Because I am using a older version of Illy and the file gets change to a PDF on upload your file changed quite radically with fill being changed to bitmaps so I had to make the bird larger to cover the feathering and trans that I did> I am sorry I have no more time to spend on it as I have to go to work but have a try to improve the drawing by adding more shapes and removing the linear colour fill to a flat red.

if there is a feather, and transpearency options in CS, I would suggest to use them to blend the two colors of the bird...
Nice logo by the way....

I had purchased CS3 some time ago from a student, and had never used vector graphics before.... If you get yourself the free trial of Xara, it will really help to get you aquainted before tackleing CS3 , the version I purchased (for $50.00, my luck) also came with a tutorial classroom cd... does the commercial version come with it??

Good luck

You blend the colors using a gradient. In this case, you should use the gradient mesh tool.

I had some trouble opening the file (as I use Linux) but happy to say, it can be opened with "Gimp"!!
I understand you're using CS3 for this but just offering different avenues for you.
Gimp is available for windows:
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

From within Gimp you can convert the file to work in Xara, etc. So, hopefully that helps a little in the future as well?? CS3 is nice, but it is also nice to have a few other options too.

The possablities with Gimp as well as Xara, and even InkScape are really great, especially if you are unfamiliar with CS3, etc. (the fore-mentioned softwares are more "user friendly") when it comes to newer users... and can greatly help in understanding the workings of CS3 and alike...

Hello, hopefully, this is close to what you're looking to achieve? Hope this helps. (just right click, choose "view image" then click on + and then right click and save image as. This is built more on Albacore's model / file

Might I suggest the use of the 'crop' tool on this one Geminiguy?
Your 1669x1309 image has plenty of white-space that could be cropped out leaving your version of the artwork the same viewable size (475x790).

Ahhhh?? I fully apologize Sledger... I posted the wrong one as I was in a hurry, sorry I will go back and resize it

Now that is a well drawn image Paul, well done. Paulkola should be happy with that. Yes I would use the gradient tool too Coningham but Paul was having trouble even using the pen tool so I was trying to keep it simple.