Many garment decorators use CorelDraw(TM) or Adobe Illustrator(TM) as their design software. Most CrystalPress users have purchased our Ioline Design (TM) software which is useful for many rhinestone design tasks, but does not include the capability to scan artwork and "trace" that artwork into vector shapes that can be used to create rhinestone designs.
If you have Corel or Illustrator, you can use the tools in those programs to scan and vectorize "bitmap" logos and other artwork. If you have questions about using those tools, call Ioline @ (425) 398-8282
If you don't have either of those programs, you still have many choices. There are service bureaus that can vectorize designs into file formats that work with the CrystalPress. You can also purchase or download programs that will allow you to vectorize scanned artwork. This link will give you a pretty good list:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/bitmaptovector/Bitmap_to_Vector_Conversion_Tracing_Software_Raster_to_Vector.htm
Another program that has a great selection of graphic tools (including vectorizing bitmap images) is Inkscape, which can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47/Inkscape-0.47-3.exe/download
Understand that Inkscape is a sophisticated graphic design program, but there is no one who is "paid" to provide support for it. If you want a simple program or a program that has good tech support, you should be prepared to pay for it.
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