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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.
-------------------- Bob Noyes Digital Graffiti 310 Main St NE Mapleton, MN 56065 Posts: 130 | From: Mapleton, MN | Registered: Nov 2007
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I take it into photoshop and resample it to make a higher resolution image. Sometimes this helps.
-------------------- John Arnott El Cajon CA 619 596-9989 signgraphics1@aol.com http://www.signgraphics1.com Posts: 1443 | From: El Cajon CA usa | Registered: Dec 1998
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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.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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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.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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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.
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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.
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