Help with Clean Lines In Photoshop

[Wayngo]

Hello everyone. Ive noticed the great deal of talent here and wanted to get some advice from people who obviously know what they are doing.

Lately Ive been taking small images and trying to blow them up and then change around. Well of course, when you blow something up, its not as clean or clear, so my question is how do I clean up those rough and blurred edges in Photoshop?


Thanks

[AlexKogan]

Okey, I don't know an exact recipe (don't even know if it exists), but you can try add some Noise (without killing the image, obviously), then Gaussian Blur the whole thing and after that - Unsharp Mask or any other of Sharpen filters.

You may also find more specific answer, along with manyother tips and tricks, at Adobe Photoshop Forums (http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@2.RAfNbIU7RQG.0@.ee6b366). If the link doesn't work, just go to www.adobeforums.com then browse (either as a registred user or a guest) to Photoshop/Image Ready forum.

Ah, an advice: search the forum before adding a new topic! :)

[AlexKogan]

...I mean, there, at Adobe site :)

[elements]

It depends what you're trying to clean up. It also depends by what % you're blowing it up. JPEG's are usually a lost cause, but what I'd suggest is after blowing it up, use the Sharpen More filter (or play around with the Unsharp mask filter), then duplicate the layer, and add a gaussian blur (the amount depends on the size of your image, but make sure it's blurry). Then lower the opacity to about 40% (this again depends). The image will be clearer, with a nice soft touch to it.

If you need it very precise, then you'd need a scanner, a hq photo printer, and glossy paper. Print the photo on the glossy paper, scan it back it, and voila! You've recreated the image in higher res.

If it's a clipart gif image, then I suggest tracing over it and re-create it with the pen tool.

Hope that helps!

[Wayngo]

Thanks for the tips.

And yes, its jpgs that Im trying to blow up. I dont know any other formats to do this stuff in sadly. I'm still very new to this.

Not even sure if Photoshop is the right program to use to do my work.

What do you guys and gals use to make logos?

[Eagle]

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CorelDRAW / Corel PhotoPaint (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel/Products/productInfo&id=1042153079054)

<img src='http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~eeqip/temp/h6ype.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

...nothing else comes close...;)
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[AlexKogan]

ah, well, the Corelbirds sing... <_< :D

It really depends on what you're going to do. First, it's a good idea to understand the difference between raster images and vector-based ones. Then, you chose what you're going to do, raster or vectors, and chose the weapon.

Corel Suite, IMHO, is a good one to start with (hehehe). It has everything, kind of a swiss army knife, it chops, it crops, it mixes.... Well, be aware, thoough, that Eagle is nearly the only one here (or am I wrong?:) using Corel and Corel only :)

Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand, along with CorelDRAW, are the three most used programs in vector drawing. There's also Canvas, Xara and a few other less known programs. PhotoShop, I think, is a monopoly program in bitmap image editing. Others do it, but not quite as well as it does :)

[Eagle]

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...pffft ;)

[AlexKogan]

...what was it? A Corelbird uninflating? ;)

[Eagle]

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:P ;)

[VisualSense]

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