Photoshop help needed!!!

[Northcott]

Hopefully one of the other artsy folk can help me out, as I'm only moderately proficient with Photoshop. I just finished up a project where I cranked out five illustrations, painted the buggers, etc. Got 'em in by the deadline, this morning. All was good.

Except they're all half the bloody size they need to be.

Turns out the pdf that the AD sent me was too small. I printed it out and used it as the template for the illustrations, since there were some odd dimensions to the art holes. Unfortunately she failed to provide measurements, and never thought to mention that the sketches were half the size they needed to be when I submitted the roughs. :mad:

I don't want to waste the time re-doing these. I've got other projects I've got to get on to. Does anybody know of a good way to resize images in Photoshop that reduces (preferably removes) the problem of excessive pixelation?

[JavaElemental]

I don't think you can. I've had a bit of success fiddling around with the unsharp mask and a couple of the other filters when I was up-sizing a picture a little bit, but to double the size . . . I don't think there's a way to fix that. I'm no expert, though. (So if you figure out a way, let me know. ;) )

[there_is_no_bob]

http://www.masternewmedia.org/how_to_convert_bitmaps_into_vectors/ is all I could come up with.

It ain't photoshop, and it apparently ain't easy, but that's what you're looking to do...

Or there's this one:http://photoshophelp.blogs.com/photoshophelp/2005/04/bitmap_to_vecto.html

[Northcott]

Thanks for the tips, guys.

I tried resampling in photoshop using the bicubic setting... and it actually came out with little to no pixellation. The advantage of painting digitally in the first place. However the pencil lines are now really thick. On the one hand, this highlights every frickin' minor tremble of my hand and makes the drawings look rushed. On the other hand -- they look rushed, so there's a sense of homey charm and honesty to them. I hope they all hold up so well.

The AD's taken the decision out of my hands and has decided to resample. Apparently she has a few tricks up her sleeve to make sure that there's no pixellation at all. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[Martin]

Get Illustrator.

[Space Cadet B^3]

What resolution were the images saved at? If you resample, you can often escape bitmapping of the images.

Generally speaking when dealing with Raster files, going bigger is always a problem.

[Northcott]

They were at 300 dpi, Billy. Nothing remarkable, but Photoshop did the job regardless. Or at least that's what the AD says. So long as the customer's content, I'm happy enough to leave it be.