Does anyone know how to take a small image and make it a much larger image that is printable?
This is the image I have and it needs to be much larger. Resizing by itself just makes it blurry.
Thanks for the help . . .
Posted by Bob Noyes (Member # 8317) on :
How big is it now and how large do you have to make it? What is the resolution Now?
There are many programs out there that allow you to interpolate the rastered file up in size/resolution but depending how much you have to enlarge it, it may not do you any good. If the image you posted is the actual file you are trying to enlarge
Currently I just use photoshop or camera raw from CS3. In Photoshop make sure you have the Sample Image drop down menu set to "Bicubic Smoother (best for enlargements) selected under Image Size dialog box. Some guys on here use some other programs and from what I understand they have pretty good luck but my past experience with them is not great.
What ever process you use increase in only small increments instead of going the whole way at once. Also keep in mind that .jpegs are going to start getting artifacts all over the place the more you work with it so I would definitley save it as a .psd first. At least your .jpeg appears to be saves at the highest quality setting.
Good luck.
Posted by John Arnott (Member # 215) on :
I take it into photoshop and resample it to make a higher resolution image. Sometimes this helps.
Posted by Bill Modzel (Member # 22) on :
It's too small to enlarge digitally. There's just not enough information to work with. I would offer to redraw it in vector and quote them a couple hundred bucks at least to do it or have someone else do it if your not that comfortable doing it yourself.
Than, find someone in the county building who already has what you need. It looks like it was originally vector, someone already has the right file. Ofttimes they have an eps but won't send it because THEY can't open it.
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Why not project it?
Posted by Dan Beach (Member # 9850) on :
Thanks guys. I will try to get ahold of someone from the county to get a larger file.
Since it is so small, I was doubting it could be made substantially larger, but figured I would at least ask.
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
I agree with Bill. It's never going to look good as an enlargement.
This is typical. The website images become the images they expect people to work from. "You can find the graphics on our website". Sure you can, if you want to make blurry postage stamps.
Someone who works for Montgomery County, PA will have access to the larger image. Hopefully they haven't lost it. Whoever made the image for the web had access to a larger image, guaranteed. That is where I would be looking, or have the customer find it.
Otherwise, like Bill said, it needs to be redrawn to look nice at a larger size.
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
quote:Originally posted by Russ McMullin: blurry postage stamps
Now that is a wonderful description. I'll keep that one for the next time someone tells me to use the artwork off their website.
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
I guess there are no miracle programs out their, but you certainly can improve on poor images. I've not worked with re-sampling in Photoshop and Corel much. We have a program called Zoom Pro which we really like. Dead easy to use...
If you want to try it yourself, I'll dig out the link for a free trial.
[ March 30, 2009, 11:10 PM: Message edited by: Duncan Wilkie ]
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
There is only so much you can do with a tiny image, but that software is pretty amazing.
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
Photozoom is great .. and will work wonders with many images, But there's just not quite enough pixels there to make it acceptable in this case... looked at it yesterday.
You just can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse....
Posted by Sean G. Starr (Member # 1549) on :
Another trick I've used (doesn't really work with realistic photos, but would probably work on this) is place the image in to Illustrator CS3 and trace it and then expand it, which makes it all vector which can then be scaled without distortion. It works about 80% of the time on simple graphics, and has saved me a ton of time on printed projects.
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and will work wonders with many images, But there's just not quite enough pixels there to make it acceptable in this case... looked at it yesterday.