Cleaning a picture?

Post by **ayu** » 22 Feb 2008, 11:29

Ok so i have descent knowledge about photoshop and i mostly make my own stuff for my sites and so on. But i have never made a really good wallpaper before, so i thought i should give it a try.

And i am wondering the following....

If i have an old picture of an anime char for example, that is in a pretty bad quality, as in "pixlel'ish".

How would i go about cleaning this in the best way? to make it look nice and clear again.

It doesn't matter if the method is time consuming, because i have time ^^

Post by **Gogeta70** » 22 Feb 2008, 15:54

Well, it's hard to tell you the best method without seeing the picture itself. I can help more if i can see a picture

Post by **ayu** » 22 Feb 2008, 17:48

Sure, you can see the pic on the link below

http://documentcat.com/images/forum/vlc.png

It's a screenshot from a movie using VLC, bad quality and small.

Was thinking of remaking it to a 1280x1024 wallpaper, but first i gotta clean the char on the pic.

I was thinking of simply drawing my own version and then scan it and do the work.

Or make the picture black and white and remove everything but the lines and recolor her.

But, i want some advice first on whats best before i start working ^^

Post by **Gogeta70** » 23 Feb 2008, 00:32

Well, the quality isn't too bad. There are a few things you can do:

1. Filter > Sharpen > unsharp mask (amount: 50% should do, radius 1, threshold 0)
2. Image > Adjustements > Brightness/Contrast
3. Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation

Or, if you'd like to remove all color and just have the lines:
Filter > Stylize > Find edges

I went ahead and tried it myself, and got this:
http://g70net.com/cats.gif

Edit: Oops, i missed a spot and messed up the hair, lol.

Anyway, the quality i am showing you there is about as good as you're gonna get with the screenshot that you have.

Post by **ayu** » 23 Feb 2008, 03:08

Thanks man, I'll have a try ^^

if i can't solve it with photoshop I'll simply redraw her

n3rd · Post by **n3rd** » 23 Feb 2008, 12:28

gogeta70 wrote:Well, the quality isn't too bad. There are a few things you can do:

1. Filter > Sharpen > unsharp mask (amount: 50% should do, radius 1, threshold 0)
2. Image > Adjustements > Brightness/Contrast
3. Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation

Or, if you'd like to remove all color and just have the lines:
Filter > Stylize > Find edges

I went ahead and tried it myself, and got this:
http://g70net.com/cats.gif

Edit: Oops, i missed a spot and messed up the hair, lol.

Anyway, the quality i am showing you there is about as good as you're gonna get with the screenshot that you have.

nice, however create some anti aliasing or blur the pixels away

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