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01 June 2008

so, i have some clip art. and a new job! my boss helpfully sent it in lots of random sizes. Now I want to blow it up so I can put it on an 8 foot banner, but without the jaggedy pixels.→[More:]

she sent them as Windows Metafiles, too. ossem. Fortunately I have open office so was able to open them in the Paint program with that here on my Mac, cut and paste into photopoop.

also, i has got the job. and an internship in a rather frighteningly important person's office this summer.

furthermore, this outfit has clue! At a training saturday: "We recommend you use this web app in Firefox due to IE being full of security holes."

post by: By the Grace of God at: 16:17 | 10 comments

to clarify, the boss of the OLD job wants the banner, the interview was for the NEW job, and the NEW job has the clue.

What the heck program sends windows metafiles?!

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 16:18

also, i have photoshop cs3.

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 16:20

If you don't want jagged pixels you're going to have to back to the WMFs and export them at high res. Graphic Convertor can do this. When you open a WMF it'll give you a dialog asking for a resolution. Make you end up with pictures a couple of thousand pixels accross. Save as a PNG and export in Photoshop.

Or you could just use Microsoft Publisher on Windows. It has a rather excellent (yes, really) banner creation mode that'll divide your banner into pages (assuming your using a regular size printer).

posted by cillit bang 01 June | 16:45

Hm, got it and its not giving me the resolution dialog when I open.. I use the scale command to expand it by a factor of 10 and then i get jaggedy edges..

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 17:07

Here's one of the images by the way - i've just switched it to a png so imageshack will take it but this is the same size. I need to blow this up a lot - 7 images of similar size at top and bottom border of an 8 foot banner - and want to keep the edges, internal and external, as smooth as possible. Thanks much for help btw cillit bang.

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 17:18

Don't you need vector graphics, usually saved as Adobe files, to expand size (beyond the original size) without pixellation? Or else you need a massive graphic the same size as what you're printing at?

posted by shane 01 June | 17:18

shane, generally yes. But this is a flighty boss who gets annoyed with requests like that. Asking for better images is a last resort - she's very bad at this stuff and gets irritated at taking the time.

when i try to convert them to smart objects in ps they're still jaggedy.

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 17:19

er. Never mind think I may have got it.. for some reason when I convert the image to a png as is and then open in ps it's better.

posted by By the Grace of God 01 June | 17:31

Yeah, you got it. It's all about the diff between vector and raster...

posted by shane 01 June | 22:39

WMF are usually vector.

I think you might need to enable the resolution dialog - go to Preferences > Open > Convert and Modfy and make sure the 72 ppi option is unchecked.

posted by cillit bang 02 June | 04:01

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