Graphics help needed!!

[silverweb]

My daughter is president of a new California Young Democrats club at her community college and has created a logo to put on flyers, a banner, etc. However, when she enlarges the image, it becomes pixelated, so it needs to have all the little squares filled in solid by someone with a decent photoshop program. That way, she'll be able to enlarge it without trouble.

Will a volunteer who knows what to do please fix this image? She needs it ASAP because there's a meeting on Friday. I told her that DU would surely come through for her. :)

Here it is:

[democracyindanger]

1. post it nt

[silverweb]

2. How's that?

n/t

[asthmaticeog]

3. When you enlarge an image it ALWAYS becomes pixelated.

What needs to happen here? Does what you posted need to be enlarged? Because that's a tall order. If it's just that the word "Mesa" needs filling in and the donkey graphic needs smoothing out, no sweat.

[silverweb]

4. Well...

I think it's just the wording and the donkey....

She's at class and won't be home until about 9:30, but I'll ask her when she comes in.

[asthmaticeog]

7. We're obviously in different time zones!

It's already almost 11 here, but I have a slow day at work tomorrow, if you could let me know what needs to be done, I could certainly take a crack at it. Nobody at work will question me pfutzing around with Photoshop since that's my job anyway. So just let me know. :hi:

[silverweb]

8. Great!

Thanks so much! I'll post as soon as I know.

:hi:

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. Would you (she) mind if someone...

tried to reproduce the image from scratch? I could try to work up something that could come close.

[silverweb]

6. I'm positive she wouldn't mind...

She wants the best possible image for her new Young Dems organization.

But do you really want to go through all that?

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. I will give it a shot.. I'm kinda bored..

But, any idea on the biggest size she would need? Be aware that this might take a little while.

[silverweb]

13. Okay.

A project is always good for boredom. :D

I know she wants to make a banner, but I don't know how big. I do know she needs something she can put on letter-sized flyers Friday.

Once again, I'll have to check with her when she gets home in about two hours.

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. I have been trying for the last hour and...

have not had any luck getting the donkey to look good at a larger size. Is the donkey already used as a logo by the group? Would starting from scratch be an option?

[silverweb]

17. The group has no logo as yet.

If you can come up with something that would communicate the concept in better style, have at it!

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. I really suck at this..

Here is a quick and dirty attempt.. (like 5 minutes)



It can scale to any size without a loss of quality. I can post the photoshop file if you really need to use. And the star should be changed to one like on a flag. I can do that.. That was just the only one in the custom shapes tool.

[silverweb]

21. I like it.

:)

The question is whether or not my daughter is willing to stray much from the design she envisioned.

She's late getting home, so I called her and she's at her boyfriend's house watching their TV show. Silly me for wrongly assuming she was coming right home after class. :P

[Ian David]

10. I think it needs to be saved as a .PNG file n/t

[silverweb]

11. I don't even know what that is.

:shrug:

[Redstone]

12. It doesn't need to have"the squares filled in..."

it needs to have the donkey and the text dones as vector (PostScript) shapes.

These are resolution-independent, and can be scaled up with no loss of resolution, than placed into a larger flag photograph.

I could do it for you, but not by tomorrow. Next time you have something like this, and can allow a week or so for the work, give me a yell.

Redstone

[silverweb]

14. Thanks, Redstone.

What you just explained is as clear as Greek to me, but I'll take your word for it.

:hi:

[evlbstrd]

18. Redstone means using a program like Illustrator instead of Photoshop.

And I'm out of work right now, so I have little to contribute.
Anybody need a good graphic artis?

[asthmaticeog]

15. GMTA, Redstone.

And I'll bet the farm that those exist *somewhere* as vector files already, too. Just nowhere that the people who need them can get them.

[WCGreen]

19. Take it too a professional printer

Who can do it at more than 2400 dpi

[silverweb]

22. She probably would...

Except they don't have a budget yet. :D

[Merrick]

23. See if this works:

it looks like its just the black lettering in the word 'Mesa' that got pixelated? If so, and if this is the size you want it, see if this works:

[silverweb]

24. Thank you!

I'll show it to her as soon as she gets home.

:hi:

[Merrick]

25. You're welcome - You can mail me if it needs anything more

Hey, Mesa CC in San Diego? I grew up right around there. neat.

and BTW - something as simple as that doesn't require photoshop. You can fill in those squares with Micrsoft Paint, which comes as a standard accessory on any PC

[silverweb]

26. Yes, Mesa CC in San Diego.

We live about three miles from the campus and she's just starting her second year. :)

Thanks for the heads up about Paint, too. I haven't fooled around with graphics for a very long time and forgot all about that program.

[Omphaloskepsis]

27. Oh my..

We used to live in El Cajon.. Just thinking about it is making my shoes melt. La Jolla was a nice place to live when I had money.

[silverweb]

28. Yes, El Cajon will do that.

:D

It still takes LOTS of money to live in La Jolla -- certainly more than I've ever had.

Do you like Oregon tons better than SoCal?

[Omphaloskepsis]

29. Yes..

Moving to Oregon was the best decision I have made.