Any graphic designers / photoshop gurus on here?

After some advice please, if you would be so kind..

I am currently looking at getting some stickers made up for my business, using the logo that was designed for use on letterheads etc. The print company tell me that they need a higher resolution image than the one I have.

So, is it possible to take a low resolution image, and make it high resolution, suitable for print? Or do I need to start from scratch with a high res?

 

I think you need to start with a high res image...

 

Possibly put it into photo shop and fill in the bad pixels

 

When it comes to photoshop and photo bombing I’m your man, you need more pixies or is it bombs

 

If desperate, using "soften" or similar would take the boxiness out of edges, but might give you an out of focus feel if over done .... Post your logo on here so peeps know what they're dealing with

 

You can make baby pixels but the trick is getting them to play nice

 

Where's the original for your existing logo?

 

Where did the original one originate. Perhaps a high resolution one can be obtained. Doubt that it would have been designed low res . Maybe if emailed to you it was reduced in res by the mail programme. Ask for one that's not reduced .
Also post a copy on here maybe someone will take up the challenge

 

If you need help .let me know .im a pro ...As you can see my work in this photo . I have enhanced the blue sky while obviously I am riding one of my dolphins. Must warn you .im a bit expensive for my work.

 

It depends on whether the design was intended to be an line drawing in the first place which was converted to a bitmap inthe first place.
You could try and get the original line art - packages like Corel Draw would have been used. It may be you have a PDF version of the art that is not just a bitmap plonked on the page but is line art.
Or you enlarge the original bitmap and trace over it with a line drawing package - using thick lines. Then delete the original bitmap and give the printer the line art file . They can then scale it and convert to pixels for printing.

Some tools can be used to smooth edges then posterize to increase resolution, but unlike every spy film, if the original is low resolution, the enlarged one will just be made of big blurry pixels. Information cannot be created by zooming ...

The free drawing package Inkscape can be used for a lot of these tricks but like every graphics package unless you speak the language of computers, printing and design its hard to use.

 

Thanks for all the replies folks, didn't realise we had so many Photoshop legends on here!

I'm on my phone at the moment, so don't have the file to hand, but I will post it up when I get home..

To answer a few questions, it was originally done for me as a favour ,by a graphic designer customer years ago, and I have since lost his contact details. To complicate things, if memory serves, it was originally part of a larger image, that I think incorporated my old workshop address, which I cropped out. Thinking about it, maybe it was when I done this that I ballsed the res up with my lack of Photoshop skills..

I have since edited it further, to add my web address, and change it to CYMK colours as requested by the printers, so may have buggered it up further.

I will have a butcher's through my laptop later, and see if I can find the original file.

Thanks for the help so far.

 

You’re very welcome I’m glad to be of assistance

 

^this, if it’s a raster (pixel) image. Whatever program would have to interpolate (guess) what the additional pixels would be, so a bigger version may look odd/blocky. If the original was a vector image (a bunch of formulas that describe the image), it should be scalable to any size.

Don’t forget to include the words “I hate customers” in a bold font

 

This is what I know about photo shop,

Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, it has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, to the point that Photoshop has become a generic trademarkleading to its use as a verb such as "to Photoshop an image," "photoshopping" and "photoshop contest", though Adobe discourages such use.[5]It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formatsbut also uses its own PSDand PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop's feature set can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Photoshop's naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October 2002, following the introduction of Creative Suite branding, each new version of Photoshop was designated with "CS" plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop CS and the ninth major version was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two different editions: Standard and Extended. In June 2013, with the introduction of Creative Cloud branding, Photoshop's licensing scheme was changed to that of software as a servicerental model and the "CS" suffixes were replaced with "CC". Historically, Photoshop was bundled with additional software such as Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central and Adobe Camera RAW.

Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Photoshop Sketch and Photoshop Mix. Adobe also plans to launch a full-version of Photoshop for the iPad in 2019.[6] Collectively, they are branded as "The Adobe Photoshop Family". It is currently a licensed software.

I think I’ve covered it all

 

It’s ashame Oscar is no longer with us he was the photoshop wizard

 

This is what I have at the mo.. I dont seem to have any better res images on this laptop, and I have had 2 laptops die since it was originally done, so may have lost the high res image. (if it was indeed a high res image)

Can anything be done with it do you think? Or shall I go back to the drawing board...