• printed image

    Posted by Richard Urquhart on January 23, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    hi all i have a problem regarding obtaining an image good enough to use for print and wanted to know if this would help

    if i print the image i have now at a4 and its ok could i then scan this to make the image better or am i stuffed
    thanks rich

    also how good is photoshop at adding pixel’s

    Shane Drew replied 17 years, 4 months ago 11 Members · 22 Replies
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  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    January 23, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    Rich
    i have had success with the print A4 then scan ideally print onto a photo paper. You normally find that images go slightly blurred when you increase the DPI by software.

    Kev

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    January 23, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    as kevin says.
    you could try adding a little bluer then increasing the resolution a bit at a time not one big jump then a bit of unsharp mask depends on the original image but could help.
    i have never had any success at all with dedicated image enhancing software but perhaps i was expecting to much like what it said it could do on the box.

    Chris

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    January 23, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    this is probably a daft question but is there no way of getting/recreating the image in question rich?

  • Bill McMurtry

    Member
    January 24, 2007 at 4:34 am

    I use Photozoom Pro. It’s a brilliant little program for upscaling an image to any resolution with excellent (and sometimes astounding) results. I think you can download the free demo version for a try-before-you-buy.

    http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=ourproducts&section=photozoompro_3

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    January 24, 2007 at 8:02 am
    quote Bill McMurtry:

    I use Photozoom Pro. It’s a brilliant little program for upscaling an image to any resolution with excellent (and sometimes astounding) results. I think you can download the free demo version for a try-before-you-buy.

    http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=ourproducts&section=photozoompro_3

    I’ll second that. Brilliant program and well worth the investment!

    Welcome Bill. What part of oz you from?

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    January 24, 2007 at 9:18 am

    thanks for your help guys
    were working on this at the moment with our printer i will let you know the out come
    thanks rich

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    January 24, 2007 at 9:36 am

    guys i have got to say that photozoom pro 2 is great well worth a try amazing results and so fast
    i will have to talk to the customer on this as its going to cost me 150 for buy the softwear but if i were doing printing full time this would be a life saver
    thanks rich

  • Gary Birch

    Member
    January 24, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Wow!!! 😮 How much time can this save redrawing artwork. Where`s my wallet

    Cheers

    Gary

  • Bill McMurtry

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 9:30 pm
    quote Shane:

    Welcome Bill. What part of oz you from?

    Hi Shane, thanks for the welcome. I’m in Devonport, Tasmania – you can’t get much more down-under 😀 What about you?

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:36 pm
    quote Richard Urquhart:

    guys i have got to say that photozoom pro 2 is great well worth a try amazing results and so fast
    i will have to talk to the customer on this as its going to cost me 150 for buy the softwear but if i were doing printing full time this would be a life saver
    thanks rich

    When you meet Richard Urquhart at Sign Uk, will someone gave him a years supply of punctuation, here’s some from me……………………………………..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,”””””””””””’;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:43 pm
    quote Harry Cleary:

    quote Richard Urquhart:

    guys i have got to say that photozoom pro 2 is great well worth a try amazing results and so fast
    i will have to talk to the customer on this as its going to cost me 150 for buy the softwear but if i were doing printing full time this would be a life saver
    thanks rich

    When you meet Richard Urquhart at Sign Uk, will someone gave him a years supply of punctuation, here’s some from me……………………………………..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,”””””””””””’;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

    Harry, can lynn have a share as well, she is always a few dots short!

    Ducking down now!!
    Peter

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    ohhhh, you might be seeing dots in front of your eyes Peter 😀 😀

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:48 pm

    your.not.wrong.Harry.

    😛 Lynn

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    sorry i go for the quick reply, like when writing a text message.

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:54 pm

    don’t do texting just talk fast and forget to take a breath !!!! 😀 I will probably expire one of these days because of that

    Lynn 🙄

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    no offence intended Richard, I am just useless at working out sentences without the dots and commas.

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    I talk very fast. I don’t take a breath, if i were writing a letter i would be more inclined to write correctly, however i,m not the best at punctuating I can’t be good at all areas of sign making, i,m better with my hands.
    Richard

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    January 25, 2007 at 11:00 pm

    I think i will have to give sign uk a miss now. I don’t want people chasing me round the place with bags of punctuation now do I . I will try harder next time, if i get the chance.
    Richard

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    January 26, 2007 at 12:03 am
    quote Bill McMurtry:

    quote Shane:

    Welcome Bill. What part of oz you from?

    Hi Shane, thanks for the welcome. I’m in Devonport, Tasmania – you can’t get much more down-under 😀 What about you?

    Hey mate, I’m in sunny SEQLD (Waterford West – between Brisbane and the Gold Coast). Last time I was in Tassie was in the late 70’s. I guess it has changed a bit since then 😳

    Welcome again mate, they are a great bunch here.

  • Bill McMurtry

    Member
    January 26, 2007 at 4:44 am

    My old stomping ground Shane! I lived in Brisbane for 15 years, moved down here 4 years ago. It’s a small world on the internet!

    Thanks again for the welcome, mate. I would have to agree about the people here 😀

    PS, sorry Robert, I just realised with the avatar – mug-shots only 😮

  • George Kern

    Member
    January 26, 2007 at 5:36 am

    Richard, you could also try this little trick in Photoshop to clean up a blurred image to some extent, it works very well once you get the hang of it.

    1) Open image go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, now you are going to have to play around with how much blur you really wanna use, you wanna be able to blur the image a little more but not to the point where its unrecognizable.

    2) After the filter has been applied go to Edit > Fade Gaussian Blur

    3) The opacity should be dialed in @ 100% and the Mode should be "Hard Light". You may have to dial the opacity down depending on the image you are working on, but trust me this technique works well.

    I found that it works even better when you duplicate the layer then apply this effect, then on the layer with the effect you turn the opacity down to 90% and merge it over the original layer.

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    January 26, 2007 at 5:48 am
    quote Bill McMurtry:

    My old stomping ground Shane! I lived in Brisbane for 15 years, moved down here 4 years ago. It’s a small world on the internet!

    Thanks again for the welcome, mate. I would have to agree about the people here 😀

    Can’t help but think we’ve met Bill. Your name sounds so familiar to me. I guess we could have crossed paths at some point.

    Cheers

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