How do i create a crisp/smooth version of this?

"Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and white version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

You are going to be tracing it with the pen tool.

You can do that in Photoshop, but you would be better off doing it in Illustrator.

The Doormouse

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Hi,

I’m building a website for a local carpet company.

I have obviously got to include their logo on their site and have had to scan in from a compliment slip.

The quality of the printing on the compliment slip results in a pretty poor scan – which can be found here:
http://www.smdwebsites.co.uk/logo.htm

The scan has a very blocky appearence (when highly magnified) and the edges are all over the place. There are further details of the process I have used thus far at the web address above – but you will see that they have not worked :o(

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and white version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

Regards,

Sonars UK

PS: I am using PS6

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"Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and white version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

You are going to be tracing it with the pen tool.

You can do that in Photoshop, but you would be better off doing it in Illustrator.

The Doormouse

I agree that the Pen Tool would be the way to go at recreating this logo, but I’m curious as to why you would choose Illustrator in this particular circumstance. The OP didn’t say what ver of PS he/she had, but CS should be able to handle this project, especially considering the end use – Web. This is not any form of challange, just a question for my edification. TIA

Hunt

You can do that in Photoshop, but you would be better off doing it in Illustrator.

<finger points to nose> Doormouse has got it 100%. If you are better at Photoshop it may take you a bit longer but it is worth the effort and will do a great job that you can adapt for other aplications and look great every were from business cards to posters, </finger points to nose>

Charles
Torrance, California
http://www.tcpslashipdomains.com

(Hunt) wrote:

why you would choose Illustrator in this particular
circumstance.

Illy is the best tool for vector objects (generally).

He could use photoshop, and it would work – but Illy is a little bit better for this specific purpose. Plus, his client may want more than web graphics in the future.

Importing Illy files to PS is loads better than trying to export PS files to Illy. IMO.

The Doormouse

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wrote on 07/14/2004 5:01 PM:

Hi,

I’m building a website for a local carpet company.

I have obviously got to include their logo on their site and have had to scan in from a compliment slip.

The quality of the printing on the compliment slip results in a pretty poor scan – which can be found here:
http://www.smdwebsites.co.uk/logo.htm

The scan has a very blocky appearence (when highly magnified) and the edges are all over the place. There are further details of the process I have used thus far at the web address above – but you will see that they have not worked :o(

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and white version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.
Regards,

Sonars UK

PS: I am using PS6

Hire ArtistMike.com to redo the logo.

Sonars_UK <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I’m building a website for a local carpet company.

I have obviously got to include their logo on their site and have had to scan in from a compliment slip.

The quality of the printing on the compliment slip results in a pretty poor scan – which can be found here:
http://www.smdwebsites.co.uk/logo.htm

The scan has a very blocky appearence (when highly magnified) and the edges are all over the place. There are further details of the process I have used thus far at the web address above – but you will see that they have not worked :o(

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and white version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

As others have mentioned, your best results will come from using Illustrator and tracing it. You’ll get the smoothest edges and infinitely scalable art.

If you want to do it in Photoshop, you can try this:

Scan at the higest resolution your machine can handle.

Use levels or curves to increase the contrast such that the letters are as dark as possible and the background as light as possible. There will still be speckles. Don’t worry about them.

Apply a mild gaussian blur (this will fill in the speckles and soften the edges). I can’t give you a number because this will depend on the image’s resolution but I’m guessing somewhere in the 2-6 range for a very high res. image.

Convert the image to greyscale.

Use levels to sharpen the image by dragging the sliders as needed to expand the black and white areas and eliminate the grey). This is a fairly common way to clean up line art which I learned way back when Kai’s Power Tools was in version 2 and one could access Kai’s Power Tips.

Apply the unsharp mask.

You should be able to get fairly smooth results this way although it’ll be nothing like drawing a vector version.

I tested this method on the low res. version on your site and this is the result I got: http://www2.gol.com/users/poza/CClogo.gif

You should be able to do better on a high res version since you can probably sharpen it better without making the edges look rough.

Orchid

for the op:

orchid
As others have mentioned, your best results will come from using Illustrator and tracing it.

It’s a simple logo, no need for tracing. In Illustrator, place the image as a template, set the type [looks like arial black], convert to outlines and shear, distort, or envelope it to match the sample. save for web.

In Photoshop, open image. In a new layer for each, set the type [two ‘c’ , reative, carpets ltd.], load each selection and free transform [skew, scale] to the shape of your sample’s type. Draw a rectangle shape and skew to the logo sample’s shadow at the bottom. save for web.

please note: you may or may not need to rasterize the type before transforming. sorry, I can’t recall as I don’t usually set type in PS.

hth
—Gem

Sonars_UK <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I’m building a website for a local carpet company.

I have obviously got to include their logo on their site and have had to scan in from a compliment slip.

The quality of the printing on the compliment slip results in a pretty poor scan – which can be found here:
http://www.smdwebsites.co.uk/logo.htm

The scan has a very blocky appearence (when highly magnified) and the edges are all over the place. There are further details of the process I have used thus far at the web address above – but you will see that they have

not

worked :o(

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and

white

version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

As others have mentioned, your best results will come from using Illustrator and tracing it. You’ll get the smoothest edges and infinitely scalable art.

If you want to do it in Photoshop, you can try this:

Scan at the higest resolution your machine can handle.

Use levels or curves to increase the contrast such that the letters are as dark as possible and the background as light as possible. There will still be speckles. Don’t worry about them.

Apply a mild gaussian blur (this will fill in the speckles and soften the edges). I can’t give you a number because this will depend on the image’s resolution but I’m guessing somewhere in the 2-6 range for a very high res. image.

Convert the image to greyscale.

Use levels to sharpen the image by dragging the sliders as needed to expand the black and white areas and eliminate the grey). This is a fairly common way to clean up line art which I learned way back when Kai’s Power Tools was in version 2 and one could access Kai’s Power Tips.

Apply the unsharp mask.

You should be able to get fairly smooth results this way although it’ll be nothing like drawing a vector version.

I tested this method on the low res. version on your site and this is the result I got: http://www2.gol.com/users/poza/CClogo.gif
You should be able to do better on a high res version since you can probably sharpen it better without making the edges look rough.
Orchid

Sonars_UK <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Orchid. That was very generous of you.

My pleasure. 🙂

Orchid

Thank you Orchid. That was very generous of you.

Best regards,

Sonars UK

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Sonars_UK <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I’m building a website for a local carpet company.

I have obviously got to include their logo on their site and have had to scan in from a compliment slip.

The quality of the printing on the compliment slip results in a pretty

poor

scan – which can be found here:
http://www.smdwebsites.co.uk/logo.htm

The scan has a very blocky appearence (when highly magnified) and the

edges

are all over the place. There are further details of the process I have used thus far at the web address above – but you will see that they have

not

worked :o(

If anyone could offer some advice on how to get a nice crisp black and

white

version from this scan it would be very much apprecited.

As others have mentioned, your best results will come from using Illustrator and tracing it. You’ll get the smoothest edges and infinitely scalable art.

If you want to do it in Photoshop, you can try this:

Scan at the higest resolution your machine can handle.

Use levels or curves to increase the contrast such that the letters are as dark as possible and the background as light as possible. There will still be speckles. Don’t worry about them.

Apply a mild gaussian blur (this will fill in the speckles and soften the edges). I can’t give you a number because this will depend on the image’s resolution but I’m guessing somewhere in the 2-6 range for a very high res. image.

Convert the image to greyscale.

Use levels to sharpen the image by dragging the sliders as needed to expand the black and white areas and eliminate the grey). This is a fairly common way to clean up line art which I learned way back when Kai’s Power Tools was in version 2 and one could access Kai’s Power Tips.

Apply the unsharp mask.

You should be able to get fairly smooth results this way although it’ll be nothing like drawing a vector version.

I tested this method on the low res. version on your site and this is the result I got: http://www2.gol.com/users/poza/CClogo.gif
You should be able to do better on a high res version since you can probably sharpen it better without making the edges look rough.
Orchid

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(Hunt) wrote:

why you would choose Illustrator in this particular
circumstance.

Illy is the best tool for vector objects (generally).

He could use photoshop, and it would work – but Illy is a little bit better for this specific purpose. Plus, his client may want more than web graphics in the future.

Importing Illy files to PS is loads better than trying to export PS files to Illy. IMO.

The Doormouse

Thanks for the response. In older versions of the two, I’d have said the exact same thing, but now that the two are much closer, I wondered why AI would still be the program of choice.

Hunt

PS and you are SO-O-O correct about the client upping the ante from Web today, 48"x60" backlit trans the next!

(Hunt) wrote:

now that the two are much closer, I wondered why AI would still be the program of choice

Although I have Illy CS, my copy of Photoshop is still version 6!

The Doormouse

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(Hunt) wrote:

now that the two are much closer, I wondered why AI would still be the program of choice

Although I have Illy CS, my copy of Photoshop is still version 6!
The Doormouse

I understand completely. Thanks for the clarification.

Hunt