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Removing background from logo for a novice

New Here ,
Nov 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019

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Hi all,

 

Apologies if this is a really simple question, but I don't even know the correct terminology for what I want to do so it's difficult to use the search function. 

 

Basically I have had someone kindly design a logo for a business I'm looking at starting. In order to get it on business cards, I've been told to download Adobe Creative Cloud so that I can remove the "white" from the background to just leave the logo. This would be to stop any white box appearing around the logo when they're printed off. 

 

Can anyone please give me or point me in the direction of an idiots guide on how to do this? Hopefully the explanation makes sense. 

 

Thanks in advance

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LEGEND ,
Nov 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019

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Let's start with the file type of the logo, as you have it. For example, is it JPEG, PNG, PDF, AI, EPS, TIFF, something else, or you just can't tell?

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Thanks for the response, the file is a .eps file.

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LEGEND ,
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One thing you could do is ask the person who designed it for you to remove the background (make it transparent). 

 

How you go about removing the background can depend on the file type.  If it happens to be a non-vector file, such as a jpeg, gif, or png, then getting rid of the background can be more challenging as pixels are blended at the edges of things to make the transitions between those things less than jagged. 

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Hi Ned, unfortunately I can't ask the person who did it orginally as it was done as a good will gesture and I don't like to keep asking if it's something I can do myself. 

 

As above, the file is a .eps file.

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Thank you. EPS is a complicated format, so it doesn't have one set of instructions. So, some more questions:

1. Do you happen to know which app was used to make the EPS (for example, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW?)

2. Do you know the difference between "raster" and "vector", and if you do, do you know whether your logo is raster or vector?

3. Are you already a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud (so you can already run Photoshop, Illustrator and so forth)?

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Thank you. 

1. I'm afraid I don't know what was used. It was emailed over as a file that just has .eps at the end, is there a way to tell from the file itself?

2. I don't know the difference I'm afraid, although he did also send it to me in .jpg files and having just had a quick search it looks like this would indicate it's a Raster file? Not sure if that's correct. 

3. I am now a subscriber to Creative Cloud, it's also opened a program called Adobe Illustrator. 

 

Sorry for the novice questions, I feel like my dad!

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