Photoshop / Logo question

Mr Gimp · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:50

I have a logo which I drew in Photoshop a few years ago, but I now need to scale it to fit letterheads / business cards. As it is rasterised, it doesn't scale without turning into a big horrible jumble of lines.

Anyone know an easy way of rescaling it or am I doomed to learning how to vectorise graphics?

GravyMonster · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:51

Vectorising it is the only way.

Craig R · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:51

What dimensions and resolution is the original?

Paul11 · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:54

and are you making it smaller or bigger?

Mr Gimp · 21 Sep 2011 at 14:03

1300 x 1150, 300 pixels per inch. It was originally a sketch which I scanned and cleaned up, hence the weird sizing.

Edit: I need to make it smaller ideally, but need to keep the edges sharp. It looks bad enough zoomed in, but printed in original form it's not too bad.

GravyMonster · 21 Sep 2011 at 14:17

You can usually get away with making a rasterised image smaller - although there will still be loss of image quality.

Vectorising it will make it much easier to modify in future.

Mr Gimp · 21 Sep 2011 at 14:30

It's my fault for cleaning it up using such a low DPI

Is Photoshop easy enough to vectorise in or am I better looking at something like Inkscape?

_Gizka_ · 21 Sep 2011 at 14:38

Mr Gimp said:
It's my fault for cleaning it up using such a low DPI

Is Photoshop easy enough to vectorise in or am I better looking at something like Inkscape?

Photoshop isn't too difficult, I find it much easier to use than Illustrator, but that's just my personal preference. Never had any experience with Inkscape so I couldn't comment on that.

How complex is the logo? I can have a bash at it if you like. I do need the practice

asim18 · 21 Sep 2011 at 19:37

There's several methods for downscaling mate. Some will look much much better than others for different types of graphics.

If you want, I can try and downscale it as best possible? Just send me a message through trust.