Image Resizing

Emc2 · July 10th, 2002, 09:04 PM

I know there's a program out there that will do this, and PSP 7.0 just doesn't seem to be doing it too well...

Resize this image to say, 1024x768, without losing clarity

It's a .jpg file, so maybe I'm just in the wrong format?

Any info. is appreciated.

**EvilRick** · July 10th, 2002, 09:13 PM

I used XP's PowerToy Image Resizer...it got real ugly!

OuTpaTienT · July 10th, 2002, 09:16 PM

Impossible.

You are asking to take this 3 inch piece of elastic and stretch it to 3 feet in length without it getting thinner. Can't be done.

Best you can hope for is to enlarge it in a program like Photoshop or PSP, then manually touch it up and try to make it clearer. Try using things like "sharpen" filters to at least give you some idea of what you can do to try and regain that clarity.

**EvilRick** · July 10th, 2002, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by OuTpaTienT
Impossible.

What about if you turned into a .pdf document Out?

J/K

incase you're wondering wtf i'm talking about

fatal xception · July 10th, 2002, 09:35 PM

Nope, you are still asking a program to guess on making it bigger (essentially what you are doing when you enlarge it). That's why it looks pixalated.

If it was done in Illistrator (saved as vectors, not pixels), you can enlarge it, shrink it, no problem. The information is saved as math equations.

ChoaticWhisper · July 10th, 2002, 09:59 PM

I would aggree with Out, Resize it to what you need then touch it up, Probably the best your getting.

Theophylact · July 10th, 2002, 09:59 PM

Or you could use another vector drawing program such as Corel Draw. Actually, you could use a trace program on the existing file to convert it into a vector drawing and clean that up; the result would scale to any size you like.

OuTpaTienT · July 10th, 2002, 11:05 PM

What is it that you need that enlarged picture for? You could always check with the college about getting an official logo. Or if you have any stickers or anything else that bears the logo you could always scan them.

But if you're just wanting to use it as wallpaper or something like that, then a good trick is to go ahead and enlarge it, then just start tweaking it. Ya know, make it look all "artsy fartsy". Maybe something along these lines: http://home.attbi.com/~0utpatient/gsu.jpg (actually that's not a very good effort on my part, but I think you get the idea.)

tobu · July 11th, 2002, 04:46 AM

What about if the image wasn't resized but recreated?

Use photoshop 7.0 to get the out lines, select, transform selection, stroke, fill in colours... Should be easy.

The only prob i could see is it would be teadious to out line the thing

cwizard · July 11th, 2002, 05:21 AM

I use genuine fractiles with photoshop to enlarge or shrink my images. You do a save as and it converts it into it's own format and then you can load it in to photoshop at whatever size you want.

I tried it on a jpeg though I haven't attempted to print it yet as I'm just now getting serious with my digital photograpy. But the jpeg looks fine on the screen and I usually get on the printer what's on the screen.

Genuine Fractiles, a great photoshop plugin to change image size without trashing the image.

Cwizard

PS the built in image resizer doesn't work well.