TheProdigy

Can anyone get this logo in better detail and store it somewhere, would really appreciate it thanks. I tried google etc and nothing comes up.

Buy and scan, do some noise reduction or clear it up in other ways a bit and it'll be pretty uber resolution.

<does is this need to be sticky'ed?>

Dude that's a wicked pic you got there, where did you get it from? And yeah, way too much of stickys here.

Josso wrote:


Sticky gone

What FREE software you reccommend? I have tried using the simple edit feature on AOL and enlarging looses a lot of quality. The picture is from a t shirt from the bravado shop.

i would recommend to stay away from AOL... really...

Yeah my internet is (unfortunatly) provided by AOL but I used IE 24/7 nowdays, my email is Gmail + re-directed to Gmail anyway so I don't need it.

I wouldn't know actually, I usually use the HP software that came with my scanner. Mind you... Microsoft Picture It is usually pretty good, simple program but does the job. It'll most likely save it as TIFF and shouldn't fuck it.

The main problem is enlarging as when I do this I get nasty jagged edges, I've got it to A4 landscape size but need the outline cleaning up. The black logo is all I required, I eill have to try my Epson software to see what it has.

Ah I see, well I could help you there. If you have Photoshop CS2 it's easier for clearing stuff up but if not just send me a TIFF or something I can see what I can do. Sounds like jagged edges are digital compression or something, noise reduction would help.

Do i send it to the Msn email address?

Yeah sure or just send it via MSN, whichever you please.

you could make a complete rework, sonce its a monotone picture (black and blue).. since the picture is quite detailed it will take a while though

Jagged edges are a result of anti-aliasing, resampling and interpolation (yeah they are essentially the same)

If you take a raster image (a scan) and increase the size by 200%, then the software has to "guess" what colour pixels to insert to make up the image. It just averages the surrounding pixels so it makes sharp edges blurry and smooth gradients blocky.

All you can do is scan it at an insane resolution or use special spline algortihms to better interpolate the image. But even these don't produce brilliant results.

If you have photoshop/illustrator and a few hours you can recreate the logo in vector format - then you can resize it as much as you want and lose no detail. Requires patience though, my company charge 45 quid an hour for someone (me) to sit and do that


Edit: what zumo said

Emp wrote:


This may as well be written in Chinese

Yeah HDRi is supposed to complete replace AA in the new card series (aka: Geforce 7800+). Want to test it in gameplay (getting slightly off topic my bad) but I need a 2006 game.

HDRi is just a lighting solution - you'll still need anti-aliasing to get smooth edges. Though I think I heard somewhere no cards do both at the moment? Sounds a bit odd to me though.