Making a JPEG or GIF file a high resolution! help!!

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Katie_Lewek
Sep 28, 2006
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Is there a way to make a JPEG or GIF file a higher resolution?? The graphics I was given are in a very low resolution and I need to use these graphics. I need them in a high resolution, though. I know that once you make a JPEG or GIF file, it’s impossible to manipulate it. Please let me know…I have Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 for my using.

Thanks,

katie

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Don_McCahill
Sep 28, 2006
It’s easy to make it a high resolution, but it will be a tiny size. You can resample the resolution up by 20-50% without too much loss of quality, but beyond that they will get super blurry.

The real solution is to get the original artwork in high resolution or vector form, or recreate it.
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Ed_Hannigan
Sep 28, 2006
You can manipulate it all you want, but the number of pixels you have is the number of pixels you have. There are various up-sampling programs and plugins, but you can’t make something much larger than it is and retain clarity, because you cannot manufacture detail that is not there.

So, what exactly do you need to do?
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a
Sep 28, 2006
In a word, no. Since the pixels aren’t there, Photoshop has to make them up out of thin air. You should do better working with a JPG that should have millions of colors to work with as opposed to a GIF that only has 256.

You can try using Image Size with resampling bicubic smoother turned on.

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Is there a way to make a JPEG or GIF file a higher resolution?? The
graphics I was given are in a very low resolution and I need to use these graphics. I need them in a high resolution, though. I know that once you make a JPEG or GIF file, it’s impossible to manipulate it. Please let me know…I have Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 for my using.
Thanks,

katie
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alewek
Sep 28, 2006
You need to find the original art and recopy it at the resolution that you need. to change what you have will result in a grainy/blurry image, which will be unusable. Dad
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Katie_Lewek
Sep 28, 2006
bummer
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 29, 2006
That’s no way to speak to your father! 🙂

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