Customer wants EPS file format

I think I'm in over my head here. I did a logo for a company in Photoshop CS (it was an ad agency that contracted me so no direct contact with client). Just some text and clip art, nothing fancy. I've sent off the layered file in .psd format. Now they want .eps format. I know you can save as .eps format in photoshop, but there's lots of different options.

Photoshop EPS
Photoshop DCS 1.0 [*eps]
Photoshop DCS 2.0 [*eps]

Other options are

Preview - TIFF (1 bit/pixel) or Tiff (8 bit/pixel)

Encoding - ASCII85, ASCII or Binary. Or JPEG low medium or high.

Include Halftone Screen - yes or no
Include TransferFunction - yes or no
PostScript Color Management - yes or no
Image Interpolation - yes or no

No clue what I need to select here. Is this dependent upon the print shop specifications? Or is there a typical EPS setting I should choose and be done with it?

Thanks!
Shelly

Not going to say your in over your head here, they just haven't been specific enough is all. I don't usually put anything out in EPS format, but there shoud be some default settings when you create it right? I would just kind of stick to these. If the customer hasn't specified, then perhaps it really doesn't matter all that much to them, as long as it is EPS format.

Perhaps somebody here knows a little better what those options actually mean (DCS 1.0 vs 2.0 and such) and that could help you make the decision.

Thanks for responding. I think there was a mixup on my part. I was asked to do a logo by local ad agency for a car dealership. Hey, I can draw! Good enough qualifications right? Wrong.

She ask me to come up with a capital dome picture with the name of the car dealership surrounding it. I drew it out by hand (using paths) in Photoshop CS. They didn't like it. They found a clipart picture on the microsoft site and ask me to use it. I researched the copyright laws and against my better judgement used the clip art.

It's the one on the right on the top row
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart...ryID=3ek5vYPXu0

If you download it, it's in a .wmf format. Not really sure what that format is, but I was able to use it in Photoshop. But, it turns into a Raster image and you're screwed.

Anyway, that's how it all began. Now they want .EPS format.

I need to research if a .wmf is scalable or not. If so, maybe I can do it over again in Illustrator, then output to EPS. I'm not that familiar with Illustrator though. It came with the Creative Suite I bought, and I haven't devled into it yet.

Thanks.

.WMF is a vector type of grafic, so it is easily converted to eps.

It is not a strange request for a company to want a logo in a vertorial format, in fact, it is professional. This means they will be able to use the same logo on the design for small posters and advertorials to, let's say a huge 10 x 7 meter billboard.

You can use Illustrator to work on the material, after converting your former created PSD file to EPS. It may sound a bit strange, but the most easy way to convert a bitmap type file (like PSD, jpg and more) to EPS is by importing it in flash and then use the modify -> trace bitmap function. Then export the created symbol as EPS.

The better but more time consuming way is by tracing the earlier created work in Illustrator by hand.

Regards,

Sander Meilink

Edit:

Oh, by the way if an image is build up by vectors it means it is easily scalable! (Vectors can be seen best as coordinates with lines and curves from one point to another. The image file contains next to those coordinates relevant colour and gradient per field data to visualize the dots and lines)

Thanks BugMeNot, that actually conjures up my own question. It's not photshop, but rather flash, still I think it can go with this thread.

So I have a little clipart picture, one of a fish, need to it be much bigger than it is. I did import it into flash and traced as a bitmap with several different tweeks to the variables, still's very pixilated. Scales like a vector graphic but those pixels just get large, don't smooth down, is there a way that I can do this without redrawing as you've said (I'm a horrible freehand artist) thanks.

Update: I redid the logo in Illustrator CS, using the .wmf file from Microsoft. Thank you Jesus! it was vector format and I didn't have to trace it by hand, because that would have driven me to drink, heavily.

Anyway, thanks for all your help. I'm new to this whole design business and I don't know anyone else in the business. It's nice to have a community full of experts to turn to.