Photoshop - Enlarge a small image to any size

Booner! · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:16

I have been sent a logo with text and a paint splash. The text is easy to replicate and size up. However, the Paint splash is a really low Res and when i try to make it bigger it pixelates and looks horrible!

Is there anyway I can make it bigger (to any size i want)? I think the term is vector?

I have tried some conversion programmes but had no luck, REALLY NEED HELP

Im not recreating it cause its a complex (i think) image

lozza · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:40

A vector file is resizable to any size without loss of quality, however to get a vector you will need to re-create the image in a vector format any way.

There really isn't a way to do this - however some things you can try are, when resizing don't just up the size but also add more dpi - photoshop will "make it up/guess" for you and the result will most likely be rubbish but not as rubish as without upping the dpi.

There are some progs about that you can put images through that will do a slightly better job, but names fail me at the moment.

As the going says put carp in get carp out - you really should be saying you can't work with what they have provided and could they provide a higher resolution image or a vector image

psyr33n · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:57

There's an AlienSkin Photoshop plugin which can work wonders.

joeyjojo · 15 Mar 2007 at 17:46

Harib0 said:
As the going says put carp in get carp out...

As the saying goes?

lozza · 15 Mar 2007 at 18:17

joeyjojo said:
As the saying goes?

yeah that as well!

fluiduk · 15 Mar 2007 at 20:59

Put the file on here, someone might be able to redraw it

Aaron