WANTED good pictures!
In most of my work I use stencils,I design them myself,take digital pictures from people (not easy to find a model ;-) ) and sometimes I take them from the web,there it goes wrong...sometimes these pics are useful(good quality) often I cannot use them because they turn out bad when I upload them.(like in the attachement) Is there anybody out there who can show me how to turn those pics into a better quality in photoshop,or isn't it impossible....?
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Permalink Reply by Mo Mapes on -
Hi Ingrid,
Since I'm still up in the middle of the night I'm going to take a stab at this- someone may give you a better answer but I will do my best. Just like here on LMM- if you have a low res photo then no one can steal it. Once the pixels are gone, they are gone. You can enlarge them like I do and they print out pixelated but then I just trace around them to smooth them out and then you can enlarge again if you need it bigger. If a photo is say 90x230 like most small ones on the net then there is nothing you can do to enlarge it to a good pic because the info is just not there ( puzzle pieces have been taken out so to speak). Does that make sense? I hope so because I think my brain is gone for the night!!! If not let me know and I will try again in the morning. I just don't know how much YOU know about photography, dpi and pixels, etc. I hope this helped for now. AND since it is daytime for you by now most likely someone else will be able to help if I didn't make myself clear.
Good night/ good morning! These time zones are confusing.............
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Permalink Reply by Mo Mapes on
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OOOO- now it shows up- geez- hope you got some insight from these two postings. NING- GGGRRR!
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Permalink Reply by Mo Mapes on
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Ingrid- I just wrote a whole explanation about this and it is GONE! so not doing it again- it is almost 1am and I'm tired. So short one- I know you make your stencils fairly large so this attachment wont work. The resolution is too small. Once a shot is uploaded this size it can not be made bigger and look good-that is the whole reason of doing it so it can't be stolen easily. Too many pixels have been taken out- like an incomplete puzzle- not all the pieces are there. You can make it as large as you can before it get's really bad and re- draw it and then enlarge again. What a pain! If you look at the size of the photo when on the web it might look good on the web but once you print it out it is tiny. You can't make it better. If this does not make sense then I'm sure someone else will be able to help you- I'M GOING TO BED! Good night/ morning!
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Permalink Reply by Jay on -
In the later versions of Photoshop there is a option to add extra pixels to make a crappy picture look better.
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Permalink Reply by Jay on
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well there not like perfect quality but it is better. I am looking in the manual to find out how..
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Permalink Reply by Mo Mapes on
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I just had an idea but it is really late here and kinda like dreams seem like a good idea until you wake up so not sure this will work. I am assuming you have a printer/scanner. Print out the attachment and place in your scanner. You can go into your printer and open your "printer driver setup window" or whatever it says on yours. Then you can SCALE your print. Set your paper size and there should be a part that says Page Layout and then click on SCALED. You should be able to scale it from about 20%- 400% or so- whatever your program lets you do. Then print that out. It will be pixelated but you can then do it again until you have the size you want. I know Jay's idea is best but I haven't seen him come back unless he sent you a private message. Maybe this will get you SOMEWHERE. Like I said- I'm half asleep so this might not make any sense but maybe it entertained you for a while........... yawning!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Jay on
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great idea mom and i am still wading through a 700 page photoshop manual hahaha
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Permalink Reply by Jay on
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Eureka! I've found it....took me freaking long enough. To little pictures in that dang book lol
Ok here we go:
open your picture
duplicate the picture
filter
other
high pass
4 to 6 pixels in the box
change the blending of that layer to overlay!
then you can add a un-sharp mask filter to that to add more sharpness
filter
sharpen
un- sharp use the preview to get it more sharp.
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