photo enlarging in Illustrator

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Jean Pierre Daviau
Nov 8, 2005
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Hi,
I opened a photo scanned with photoshop in Illustrator.
Then I saved it has a vector file (.ai) and reopened it in photoshop to enlarge it.

Somebody has comment on this approach?

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Marsupilami
Nov 8, 2005
Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:
Hi,
I opened a photo scanned with photoshop in Illustrator.
Then I saved it has a vector file (.ai) and reopened it in photoshop to enlarge it.

Somebody has comment on this approach?

Does this means that you intended to transform a photo into vector draw i.e. Bezier curves and so on?
Did this enlarged your photo with a better result?

This approach may work if you ask for yourself why would it work (or not!) Did it works?
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Mike Russell
Nov 9, 2005
"Jean Pierre Daviau" wrote in message
Hi,
I opened a photo scanned with photoshop in Illustrator.
Then I saved it has a vector file (.ai) and reopened it in photoshop to enlarge it.

Somebody has comment on this approach?

..ai is really a flavor of encapsulated postscript. Although .ai and .eps are capable of representing vectors, your original image is almost certainly embedded as a raster image. To verify this, check the size. It should be about the same size as the original scanned photo, and may be a great deal larger.
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Tacit
Nov 9, 2005
In article <CK5cf.43781$>,
"Jean Pierre Daviau" wrote:

I opened a photo scanned with photoshop in Illustrator.
Then I saved it has a vector file (.ai) and reopened it in photoshop to enlarge it.

Somebody has comment on this approach?

It makes no difference. It does not produce quality that is any better than simply enlarging the image in Photoshop.

Why not scan it at the proper resolution to begin with?

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Tacit
Nov 9, 2005
In article <4370f02a$0$20854$>,
"Marsupilami" wrote:

Does this means that you intended to transform a photo into vector draw i.e. Bezier curves and so on?
Did this enlarged your photo with a better result?

If you place a scanned image in Illustrator, it is still a scanned image. It’s raster, not vector, even though it is inside a vector "wrapper." Enlarging it does not produce any better results than just enlarging in Photoshop; it is still a raster image.

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