help with photoshop or printshop pro 9

[freakinshoe]

k i have printshop pro 9 and i have photoshop, but i cant figure out how to import pics and blow them up to size i need (12w x 28h) with out them gettin blurry. in printshop i trade to make a vectored work area, but i can import images to it. can someone help me or point me in the direction of a tutorial?

[mahuti]

(in a nutshell) You can't blow up small raster pics without them getting blurry.

If you use a vector drawing program (like illustrator), and make vector art it can be blown up... vector art is based on math plotted lines & patterns.

Photoshop is primarily a raster imaging program and is based on plotting pixels in physical space.... if you blow those dots up, there will not be enough information for Photoshop to work with to make a small image any larger while maintaining clarity... it has to fake in information to upscale. You can scale DOWN easily.... but not up.

There are a few tricks for small amounts of upscaling, but nothing great.

[RayB]

Like he said, you can't take a small photo and some how magically create the detail in it when you scale it up. You see that in TV shows and movies, but it's complete BS.

BUT maybe your question has to do with wanting to keep it pixellated? Is that what you want? Do you have a pixel image and you want to scale it up such that the pixels remain squares instead of blurring together?

If so, the only trick I know to do that is to convert the image to INDEX mode first, then scale it up and then convert it back to RGB.

[mahuti]

It's easier than that.

WHen you scale up or down in the "image size" pane, you make sure you have "resample image" checked with it set to "Nearest Neighbor" instead of the default "bilinear". You have to also make sure that you are scaling up in a multiple of 4 of your art's size. so you go from

(x=black pixel
y=red pixel
z=grey pixel)

xy
yy

to

xxyy
xxyy
yyyy
yyyy

Without using the correct scaling or using bilinear resampling you will get something more like

xxzy
xxzy
zzyy
yyyy

It will blend between the two pixels.... and make it fuzzy

[freakinshoe]

I just want to create my own cp, marquee, bezel, and side art. how do i find vectorized images? Do i google them? I'm mostly interested in mortal kombat pics.

[freakinshoe]

sorry guys i just did what i should have done in the first place i read the pinned topics and i think i am on my way to doing all my artwork myself instead of buying elsewhere. sorry for wasteing a thread.