photoshop request, please

[wycoco]

I'm planning on having this printed on a T-shirt. But when I print it, it comes out all pixelated or something. Can someone make the colors solid and clear? Thanks.

[M42Technik]

Do you have Adobe Illustrator? Thats the only real way to get it ready for a shirt, you have to remake the image using the pen tool...

And that takes a long time, even if you use Photoshop's pen tool.

[Brant]

...and if those letters were solid/clear they wouldn't be readable.

[wycoco]

Oh, no. I didn't mean clear as in see through. It's just kind of blurry when I print it out so I was hoping if there was an easier way to get the colors more slid without any of those blur marks.

[kidrobot]

That looks like crap now that its offa my computer, I wonder what happened?.

[Brant]

Oh, no. I didn't mean clear as in see through. It's just kind of blurry when I print it out so I was hoping if there was an easier way to get the colors more slid without any of those blur marks.

OH, I get it...

[wycoco]

Kidrobot, that's awesome! Thanks very much. I'm sure this will print out nicely.

[8380 Labs]

unfortunately that wont ever print out nicely because the image you are starting out with is low-res.

you cant take a bitmapped (pixellated) image like that and make it bigger without it getting fuzzy like that.

yer only hope is as said before to recreate it in a vector program like illustrator or if there is another version of the image somewhere that is higher quality.

[kidrobot]

unfortunately that wont ever print out nicely because the image you are starting out with is low-res.

you cant take a bitmapped (pixellated) image like that and make it bigger without it getting fuzzy like that.

yer only hope is as said before to recreate it in a vector program like illustrator or if there is another version of the image somewhere that is higher quality.

Sorry but I don't buy that......


No worries Wycoco! I vectored the BG and just filled the other parts with the
same colors to edit out pixelation. Doesn't take long to do, and makes it look
that much better!

[8380 Labs]

Sorry but I don't buy that......

its fine to disagree but you havent really given any reasons explaining WHY im wrong, so it doesnt garner you a lot of credibility.

:roll:

[8380 Labs]

heres a couple links for you to read up on bitmapped graphics:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/glossary/g/bitmap.htm

heres another good one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics

exerpt ^: "Raster graphics cannot be scaled to a higher resolution without loss of apparent quality."

[kidrobot]

Thanks for treating me like I am art illiterate.
I'm sure I know what I'm doing by now though.

[8380 Labs]

well when you make claims like that one, you dont get to sit at the grown up table.

8-)

[kidrobot]

exerpt ^: "Raster graphics cannot be scaled to a higher resolution without loss of apparent quality."

For a guy who quotes things from a text book,
has 23 posts, and has yet to bless us with his graceful
art. Don't tell me as an professional artist of 15 years
what I can and cannot do. I'm probably old enough to
be your father, and have been creating CG since you
were in grade school.

If you had the LEAST idea how they make shirts you'd
be smart enough to shut up NOW. Two common processes
are screen print and iron on. If it is ironed, they vector
it out first. Hence it wouldn't matter pixel content. If it
is screen printed they just layer color splotches, hence
pixel content is also irrelevant.

Before you chime in your two cents and cop an attitude
with me kid, shut up, sit down, and think over what you
will say before you say it.

[Jand3rson]

Alright guys, give it a rest.