Making a jpeg higher resolution - filling in pixels?

[Spork]

Hi guys.

I've been mucking around with photoshop and have finished up with the image below.

I would like to get it printed on to something but at the current resolution it wont print well at all.

When you zoom in a bit you can see that the grey is not a solid colour, but rather a combination of a few different coloured pixels. Does anyone know how I can make the grey a more solid colour so that I can make the image larger?

[iDad]

open the image in PS just change resolution it is now at 72 dpi put it at 300 see it that helps

[Spork]

That seems to have made the edges smoother but I'll have to wait until tomorrow when I can see how a printer goes with it.

Thanks so far though! any other suggestions?

[iDad]

Try you vibrancy levels

[Spork]

Im using CS3 :(

[Steve]

Im using CS3 :(

There is a Vibrancy slider in ACR available in CS3 if you want to try it.

[Spork]

You guys are legends.

The vibrancy slider didnt work but I played around with a few other settings in ACR and got the following result.

I know its not the best but it should print much better than the original. Would love your opinions though!



Just close the gap, apparently I cant post links yet

[Tron]

You could try converting it to a vector.... give it a little cleanup in Illustrator and then you can print at any size you want. the image seems simple enough that it might work well.

[Spork]

I've never tried converting anything to vector before. Is it an easy enough process?

[Gaussian]

Can you post the PSD, or a version of it without black background? Would be easier to make a vector conversion with that.

Here's what I could get with the current image:



This was just done using Vector Magic, but you can clean it up in Illustrator.