Hi,
Many years ago (can't remember how many) I was asked to create a logo. We found a suitable photo image and used the Lasso tool to cut an image of a car. The logo we made was great at the time as it was fairly small and it was used exclusively for web and print newsletter, until now.
We were recently asked to prepare this logo to be used on a large banner to be displayed at the race events. So I found the original png file (1269X445 pixel) and re-did the text on it thinking it would be OK for this large banner. However when the Printing Shop tried to use the image they said it was very grainy when "blown up" and was unusable.
The problem was the original photo we took the car out of was taken on a standard 35mm camera and was then digitized when the film was taken to a kodak lab and copied to CD. The total size of the whole photo was 835KB. I would class the original image as a little grainy.
We need to get this image to a high enough resolution to print this banner. We thought about maybe using a paint bucket fill and making two colours which did not go well. The edges were jagged.
We were looking for some advice on how to either convert this car to two solid colours (Black and red) or improve the image quality. I am using Photoshop CS5. Attached is the PNG we are working with. Any help, advice or appraisal is greatly appreciated.
Many years ago (can't remember how many) I was asked to create a logo. We found a suitable photo image and used the Lasso tool to cut an image of a car. The logo we made was great at the time as it was fairly small and it was used exclusively for web and print newsletter, until now.
We were recently asked to prepare this logo to be used on a large banner to be displayed at the race events. So I found the original png file (1269X445 pixel) and re-did the text on it thinking it would be OK for this large banner. However when the Printing Shop tried to use the image they said it was very grainy when "blown up" and was unusable.
The problem was the original photo we took the car out of was taken on a standard 35mm camera and was then digitized when the film was taken to a kodak lab and copied to CD. The total size of the whole photo was 835KB. I would class the original image as a little grainy.
We need to get this image to a high enough resolution to print this banner. We thought about maybe using a paint bucket fill and making two colours which did not go well. The edges were jagged.
We were looking for some advice on how to either convert this car to two solid colours (Black and red) or improve the image quality. I am using Photoshop CS5. Attached is the PNG we are working with. Any help, advice or appraisal is greatly appreciated.
