hellboymart

http://www.geocities.com/hellboymart/popcicle.jpg

There's the image. Basically I would like to make it 300 dpi and about 6.5 inches in width by whatever it works it out as. I've tried making the image 4 colors but that just decreases the image quality, obviously. Can somebody help? This is for a t-shirt I want to make up.

Email: Hellboymart@yahoo.com if you can help me out on this, I'll even send you something for your time as this is really important to me!

docilebob

Try this, maybe.
Open the image in Photoshop.
Right click the image title bar, and click on Image size.
Uncheck the Resample box at the bottom of the dialog, and increase the image to 300 DPI. Click ok.
Right click on the title bar again, and Click image Size. Recheck the resample box and adjust the size. Click Ok.

In some cases this will work, but as a general rule, upsizing is bad.
The program is forced to create pixels that weren`t there before, and it doesn`t always do it like you would think.

stickdiesel

did you create the image from scratch in PS?
If you up size it to 300 ppi you will notice it in the print.
A logo like that would be best done in illustrator.

Welles

Hi hellboymart,

Actually that's an easy image to do...all except for the signature. Use Image > Image Size... and in the Document Size just enter 300dpi in the resolution box and 6.5" in the width with the constrain proportions checked and resampling set to bicubic. The thing that makes this image so easy is that there are only two colors (well three if you count white). Once you have resized the image you will see all sorts of jpeg artifacts but not to worry.

Use Select > Color Range... and choose Highlights from the dropdown menu. Click OK and you will get a superb selection of the areas supposed to be white. Fill the selection with white. Next, use the eyedropper tool and select the red from a very solid area such as the interior of the hat. When you choose the Color Range... dialog choose the Reds from the dropdown menu and click OK. Fill the selection with red.

The blues were a bit trickier. First use your eyedropper tool and get a nice blue for your foreground color. Zoom in on your image's blue type to about 100% as you only need to see part of the image. Go back to the Color Range... dialog but choose the Eyedropper tool and, at the bottom of the window, set your Selection Preview to Greyscale. Now you will see your blue selection in white and everything else will be black. Notice that there are lots of greys in the type. Either click on the Add Color Eyedropper tool, the one with a little +, or just hold down the Shift key, and click on a number of those grey pixels until the blue areas (which are white in the preview) will be all mostly white. Click OK and fill the selection with the blue which you previously made your foreground color.

By doing your image in that fashion I was able to get an excellent image for print. The only flaw was the artists signature which I made a little better with the sharpen tool and a bit of judicious burn tool on the interior lines. Once you have all the areas nice solid colors again you could easily select one or more of them to change colors if you wished.

Good Luck!

wbiss

[righton] Welles!

Great approach... and beautifully detailed! :}