I need an image blown up/enlarged and outlined.

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Hey guys. I have a black and white ink drawing, about 6"x9" or so.. and I need it blown up about 3 or 4 times with as little quality loss as possible. I also need a white outline around it. I have an older version of photoshop and can’t seem to figure out how to do either of these with any success. Would anyone care to help me out and get mentioned on the thanks list of my next album 🙂
Thanks,
Sam

When you enlarge an image 3 or 4 times the quality normaly disintigrates but post up the image so we can see what its potential is, this is a text group so post it to ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.UTILITIES it’s for anything relating to images including images.

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Hey guys. I have a black and white ink drawing, about 6"x9" or so.. and I need it blown up about 3 or 4 times with as little quality loss as possible. I also need a white outline around it. I have an older version of photoshop and can’t seem to figure out how to do either of these with any success. Would anyone care to help me out and get mentioned on the thanks list of my next album 🙂
Thanks,
Sam

Sam,

A 6"*9" blown up to 12" * 18" is a 4 times enlargement, therefore a 24" * 36" blow up will be a 16 times enlargement and quality will suffer. Idealy a B&W ink drawing needs to be scanned into a vector drawing programme (CorelDraw or Illustrator) where the scanned pixel(bitmap or raster, lots of "tiles") info can be converted into a vector image (mathematical formulae,coordiates, etc.) which would be resolution independant. You could try and select the crop tool, (C on the keyboard) set the measurements in the options bar to 12" * 18" (leave the ppi blank) and see what the resulting image looks like at 100% view. Do the same with a 24" * 36" crop.
To put a line around your image, hit ctrl +A to select the whole image, then Edit>Stroke and pick your stroke colour and how wide you want it to be in pixels.
If you’d like to post it so as others could comment on it, go to http://www.pixcentral.com and upload your image. When you have done so you will see a box containing the html code for your uploaded image, copy this code and paste it into a new group message.

HTH
MH

Ok guys, thanks. I posted the image at my website at
www.trackthecurse.com/demon.htm
It’s scanned a 600 dpi (is that enough)? It probably doesn’t need to be blown up as much as I said. Basically, I am having this put on the front of a couple of my amps. The surface it’ll be going over is approx. 18 1/2" by 13". It doesn’t need to cover the whole thing. I was just hoping to get it blow up as big as possible that will a) not distort to a great degree and b) fill up the space as much as possible w/out distorting.
Also, the background will be black. Hence the need for a white outline.

Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,
Sam

Mike Hyndman wrote:

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Hey guys. I have a black and white ink drawing, about 6"x9" or so.. and I need it blown up about 3 or 4 times with as little quality loss as possible. I also need a white outline around it. I have an older version of photoshop and can’t seem to figure out how to do either of these with any success. Would anyone care to help me out and get mentioned on the thanks list of my next album 🙂
Thanks,
Sam

Sam,

A 6"*9" blown up to 12" * 18" is a 4 times enlargement, therefore a 24" * 36" blow up will be a 16 times enlargement and quality will suffer. Idealy a B&W ink drawing needs to be scanned into a vector drawing programme (CorelDraw or Illustrator) where the scanned pixel(bitmap or raster, lots of "tiles") info can be converted into a vector image (mathematical formulae,coordiates, etc.) which would be resolution independant. You could try and select the crop tool, (C on the keyboard) set the measurements in the options bar to 12" * 18" (leave the ppi blank) and see what the resulting image looks like at 100% view. Do the same with a 24" * 36" crop.
To put a line around your image, hit ctrl +A to select the whole image, then Edit>Stroke and pick your stroke colour and how wide you want it to be in pixels.
If you’d like to post it so as others could comment on it, go to http://www.pixcentral.com and upload your image. When you have done so you will see a box containing the html code for your uploaded image, copy this code and paste it into a new group message.

HTH
MH

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Ok guys, thanks. I posted the image at my website at
www.trackthecurse.com/demon.htm
It’s scanned a 600 dpi (is that enough)? It probably doesn’t need to be blown up as much as I said. Basically, I am having this put on the front of a couple of my amps. The surface it’ll be going over is approx. 18 1/2" by 13". It doesn’t need to cover the whole thing. I was just hoping to get it blow up as big as possible that will a) not distort to a great degree and b) fill up the space as much as possible w/out distorting.
Also, the background will be black. Hence the need for a white outline.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,

Sam,

Why do you need a white stroke line to provide separation if the image is already on a white background? I have inverted the image so as all the white areas are black and vice versa.

see http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ym37v5qy1qHscd7zo KRpHpNXrjPZ8

I inverted it and made it a bit smaller to make the upload easier. I tried at the size you requested and it looked OK.

MH

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Ok guys, thanks. I posted the image at my website at
www.trackthecurse.com/demon.htm
It’s scanned a 600 dpi (is that enough)? It probably doesn’t need to be blown up as much as I said. Basically, I am having this put on the front of a couple of my amps. The surface it’ll be going over is approx. 18 1/2" by 13". It doesn’t need to cover the whole thing. I was just hoping to get it blow up as big as possible that will a) not distort to a great degree and b) fill up the space as much as possible w/out distorting.
Also, the background will be black. Hence the need for a white outline.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,

Sam,

I’ve made the darks in your image "black", (you can have any colour you want) your scan’s darks came out a very dark grey, that’s why the inverted version didn’t show up as white.

see http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1OmBPFLnozVfMrQXyT c2j1Tm6BINk0

Also, the aspect ratio of the original is not exactly a multiple of 18.5 * 13 and as a result you will lose a few pixels off the top or bottom of the image if you use the crop method to resize you image.
Another way to enlarge it would be to use Image>Image Size and input your new size into the height and width boxes and check resample image. If you want to invert it hit Ctrl+I. I don’t think that your audience will be too concerned about any ensueing pixelation 😉
I think that white demon on black background on a black speaker cabinet and lit with UV lighting would look the business!
If it was you who put your site together, this should be a breeze. How are you going to print it?

MH

Thanks so much! It looks great. I’m still going back and forth on how to have it printed. I could have it silkscreened. But that’s not exactly "acoustically transparent", which is what’s preferred to go in front of a speaker. Someone has mentioned to me that I should check with a screen printer about having the image transferred using an ink jet printer and fabric dye inks, as this would achieve the acoustic transparency. Although if it’s too expensive or too much trouble, I might just have it silkscreened and deal with the change in tone. I dont’ mind cropping the edges of the picture. The black background is insignificant, as long as the skull is intact.
I did do my own website. But I always leave out details when editing stuff on photoshop, and then the print comes out weird. I’m just not very good at it.

Mike Hyndman wrote:

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Ok guys, thanks. I posted the image at my website at
www.trackthecurse.com/demon.htm
It’s scanned a 600 dpi (is that enough)? It probably doesn’t need to be blown up as much as I said. Basically, I am having this put on the front of a couple of my amps. The surface it’ll be going over is approx. 18 1/2" by 13". It doesn’t need to cover the whole thing. I was just hoping to get it blow up as big as possible that will a) not distort to a great degree and b) fill up the space as much as possible w/out distorting.
Also, the background will be black. Hence the need for a white outline.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,

Sam,

I’ve made the darks in your image "black", (you can have any colour you want) your scan’s darks came out a very dark grey, that’s why the inverted version didn’t show up as white.

see http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1OmBPFLnozVfMrQXyT c2j1Tm6BINk0
Also, the aspect ratio of the original is not exactly a multiple of 18.5 * 13 and as a result you will lose a few pixels off the top or bottom of the image if you use the crop method to resize you image.
Another way to enlarge it would be to use Image>Image Size and input your new size into the height and width boxes and check resample image. If you want to invert it hit Ctrl+I. I don’t think that your audience will be too concerned about any ensueing pixelation 😉
I think that white demon on black background on a black speaker cabinet and lit with UV lighting would look the business!
If it was you who put your site together, this should be a breeze. How are you going to print it?

MH

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Thanks so much! It looks great. I’m still going back and forth on how to have it printed. I could have it silkscreened. But that’s not exactly "acoustically transparent", which is what’s preferred to go in front of a speaker. Someone has mentioned to me that I should check with a screen printer about having the image transferred using an ink jet printer and fabric dye inks, as this would achieve the acoustic transparency. Although if it’s too expensive or too much trouble, I might just have it silkscreened and deal with the change in tone.

From what I remember of silk screen printing , there shouldn’t be any acoustic problems provided the correct fabric is used to accept the dye, no? Get a few hundred (or more) T shirts etc., done at the same time with the image and advertise them on your site at a considerable markup to cover ALL your costs 😉

I dont’ mind cropping the edges of the picture. The black background is insignificant, as long as the skull is intact.

The inverted image has been cropped to your aspect ratio. I don’t think you will miss what was cropped.

I did do my own website. But I always leave out details when editing stuff on photoshop, and then the print comes out weird. I’m just not very good at it.

Each to his own 😉

Regards

Mike H

Mike Hyndman wrote:

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Ok guys, thanks. I posted the image at my website at
www.trackthecurse.com/demon.htm
It’s scanned a 600 dpi (is that enough)? It probably doesn’t need to be blown up as much as I said. Basically, I am having this put on the front of a couple of my amps. The surface it’ll be going over is approx. 18 1/2" by 13". It doesn’t need to cover the whole thing. I was just hoping to get it blow up as big as possible that will a) not distort to a great degree and b) fill up the space as much as possible w/out distorting.
Also, the background will be black. Hence the need for a white outline.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,

Sam,

I’ve made the darks in your image "black", (you can have any colour you want) your scan’s darks came out a very dark grey, that’s why the inverted
version didn’t show up as white.

see
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1OmBPFLnozVfMrQXyT c2j1Tm6BINk0
Also, the aspect ratio of the original is not exactly a multiple of 18.5 *
13 and as a result you will lose a few pixels off the top or bottom of the
image if you use the crop method to resize you image.
Another way to enlarge it would be to use Image>Image Size and input your new size into the height and width boxes and check resample image. If you want to invert it hit Ctrl+I. I don’t think that your audience will be too
concerned about any ensueing pixelation 😉
I think that white demon on black background on a black speaker cabinet and
lit with UV lighting would look the business!
If it was you who put your site together, this should be a breeze. How are you going to print it?

MH