Cleaning up an image.

[AlwaysLearning]

How do I clean up the edges of this image? It was taken from a JPEG of a vinyl decal in a car. I've attached the original JPEG as well as where I have it thus far. I'm just not sure how to clean up the edges to give it a cleaner look.

Thanks in advance!

Gavin

 

[ibis]

you're facing problems due to the low resolution of the image taken at the first place.
you need to take the fact image editing is not that trivial as it appears, have it in mind during taking this kind of photos. If you have taken it under soft light, on flat surface and with the decent camera resolution it would be piece of cake....
in this case you may have to put 300dpi resolution, some sotf blur afteh that some sharpen edges to increase image quality in total and then to make selection of the logo.
alternatively you may vectorize it in good old ilustrator, corel or so to complete its restoration if you want to use it as any serious logotype purpose.

 

[dv8_fx]

Will this do?



a quick fix but you might do better....

Make sure the logo layer is active and use MENU>SELECT>COLOR RANGE..... click on the pink and set fuzziness to 50. This will create a selection.

on new layer fill in the pink.

Add a slight blur to the new image logo.


Hope it helps.

 

[dv8_fx]

Another thing.... increase your image resolution to 150 or higher.... that way the selection will be finer - less jagged edges.

 

[ibis]

tried to vectorize it, quality is not there...

 

[dv8_fx]

You've got something going there, ibis. Illustrator?

Usually, I'd redo these things in Corel Draw. Then export the image as a layered psd to CS.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

Thank you for the comments and instruction. Ibis, that looks amazing. Did you do that with the instruction you gave me above? Also, with your permission, could I use what you posted up?

Thanks!

Gavin

 

[ibis]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1413061/LogoHIS_dv.eps
of course you may use it and here it is in .eps vector format.
dv8_fx, for vectorization i use small trd party tool called VectorMagic.
gives better results then my favorite CorelDraw or Illustrator.

 

[AlwaysLearning]

Thanks a ton Ibis!