Magic Wand+Low res graphic to High res...How to smooth out?

[Macman24]

I have a graphic that is only about 200 x 300 pixels. It is a simple white background with a black outlined hawk mascot. In Photoshop I can select the black outline of the mascot fine with the Magic wand. Now is there a way to get the selection smooth instead of pixelated like the image, so that I can enlarge the selection about 5X to make a high res image of this graphic? I tried using Paths, but it makes the image abstract.

Any tips?

[Excruciating]

Perhaps this post can help you a bit:

http://www.devppl.com/forum/new-to-forums-ms-paint-to-photoshop-help-vt7022.html?highlight=logo+smooth

[Macman24]

I am not having much success with paths. They are not smoothing right. Here is the image, is it even possible to enlarge from its state?

[Medley]

I'm not on the right computer for this at present, but i have a plug-in that may help with the enlargement.

-Medley.

[Macman24]

I'm not on the right computer for this at present, but i have a plug-in that may help with the enlargement.

-Medley.

Ok cool!

[Medley]

OK, I bigefied it, and played around some to even things out. Here's what I came up with:



This image is 800x439. I upsized the original image by 2500%, making the file 1285x705- too large to post. If you post or PM me your e-mail address, I'll be happy to send the larger file to you.

Incidentally, when I tried to download the file and open in Photoshop, it wouldn't open, syaing that there was an invalid JPEG marker. The only way I could get the image was to take a screenshot.

Hope this helps.

-Medley.

[Macman24]

ok thanks a lot...this will do!

thanks again

[Disjuku]

Another option would be to import the jpg into a program like illustrator and use a tracing function.

This is still always going to just guess how it should look, but gives you quite a few useful options/settings and, if done correctly, will produce smooth lines in a vector format - so you can make it any size you wish.