Vectorize the Namco Galaxian bezel

[Etienne MacGyver]

Good job Etienne! Please keep pretending it's difficult to do, I don't want to loose my job if my boss ever reads this forum.
You should upload your stuff to Zorg's vectorlib once they are done.

@ Chrischris boss:

Its super dificult !, eats time and you should give your fine employee a raise  

seriouly, it takes alot of patience, dedication, precision, and skills if you want to do it correctly

and as i am still learning, i will like to get this skills one day..
dont get me wrong, but in general this bezel is just straight lines (read coordinates) and layers so as a practice it was a perfect quest!

It looks so easy... but i would say give it a try...

It looks like i am learning fast but i did not mention that i worked in MS publisher an MS Visio for many years, and i have some detail thing that i cannot stand it if something is a mm off, i think you guys know what i mean.. 
for example : Its like a painting in the wall that is not hanging "levelled", i cannot stand and see that 

its not a job for everyone...

[Etienne MacGyver]

Here you go: (click on image for MACRO)

Thanx !

and corrected :



Now only the correct colors and i think we are good to go 

[Q*ris]

 
Etienne, my boss now asks for a copy of your résumé!

[Etienne MacGyver]

he cannot afford me 

[DarthNuno]

...seriously, it takes a lot of patience, dedication, precision, and skills if you want to do it correctly
...and as i am still learning, i will like to get this skills one day....

Is it possible to learn this power?



Not from a Jedi.

  The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities 

  Sorry...cannot resist! 

[Muerto]

NAMCO Bezel color codes...
Green: NCS 3040 G10Y
Blue: NCS 6030 R80B
Orange: NCS 1080 Y60R

NB! These where the closest matches

[Etienne MacGyver]

lets translate that 

Here we go

Green:
Description Moderate bluish green
RGB Hexdecimal 439F64
RGB 0÷255 67, 159, 100
RGB % 26.3, 62.4, 39.2
CMYK % 58, 0, 37, 38
HSV 142°, 58, 62
HSL 142°, 41, 44
CIE-L*ab 58.9, -41, 22.8
XYZ 17, 26.9, 16.4

Blue:
Description Dark azure
RGB Hexdecimal 032352
RGB 0÷255 3, 35, 82
RGB % 1.2, 130.7, 32.2
CMYK % 96, 57, 0, 68
HSV 216°, 96, 32
HSL 216°, 93, 17
CIE-L*ab 14.6, 9.9, -31.8
XYZ 2.2, 1.8, 8.2
 
Orange:
Description Brilliant orange red
RGB Hexdecimal E23403
RGB 0÷255 226, 52, 3
RGB % 88.6, 20.4, 1.2
CMYK % 0, 77, 99, 11
HSV 13°, 99, 89
HSL 13°, 97, 45
CIE-L*ab 50.3, 64.5, 61.8
XYZ 32.6, 18.6, 2

Thanks ! 
Will update soon !

is the orange of the marquee the same as the bezel ?

[Etienne MacGyver]

And corrected..

are you sure about the green muerto ?  it looks off..
i used the CMYK values..

[Blanka]

CMYK is not CMYK. CMYK is the hardest to define colours in, as it depends on the inks used by the printing device. For things like this you better print a CMYK grid first, and then use the swatches in this grid to compare them to the original colours. Another option is to use the pantone swatches, and hope that the RIP of the printer does a good translation of Pantone to its CMYK.

Using RGB is also possible to define colours in, as sRGB is pretty much standard for most printers, but it is a luminescent colour space, not a reflective colour space.

[Etienne MacGyver]

Im no pro, and do not have alot of experience with printers, but why do the blue and orange than look good to me ?

anyway, my friend is comming over to "finish" it and making it print ready , he understands what you mean with grids and terms like that.

well , i hope he does, because i dont know that 

[Blanka]

It's this

You can find profile-less CMYK PDF's with all these squares. Just print it on your device, then match the colours and use the found numbers to set up the colours corectly. It is quite possible that orange and blue match better than green. Green is a difficult colour in CMYK.

[Etienne MacGyver]

Ah,  so let me see if i understand you correctly; i should let the print company that i have in mind, print this file, ship that printed piece to muerto, and he can compare the correct color, and then tell me the correct codes that i put in AI ?

[Blanka]

Ah,  so let me see if i understand you correctly; i should let the print company that i have in mind, print this file, ship that printed piece to muerto, and he can compare the correct color, and then tell me the correct codes that i put in AI ?

If you want the best color, yes.

[Etienne MacGyver]

Maybe a stupid question, but would this file be sufficient ?

cmyk.pdf

can let this print on the material i have in mind and then do the colorpicking with that as a refference ?

[Etienne MacGyver]

First test is comming from the printer this week, will post pics then

also Zorg is hosting the files of this at http://vectorlib.free.fr/Galaxian_Namco/

Thanks for that Zorg!