How to remove raster/pixeled edges from png logo image?

[INCam]

The designer who sent me my vectorized logo (black & white)... sent it to me in png format. Haven't heard from him in years so I can't get in touch with him. The problem is, I have grey & white pixels along the edges of my logo and text.   even after I removed the white background using pixlr.

I only have AI so how do I remove these edges without effecting the logo? Thanks in advance!!!!

[Monika Gause]

PNG is a raster format. So of course there will be pixels along the edges of the shape.

You will need to vectorize this. Best quality can only be achieved when vectorizing manually.

[INCam]

When I try to vectorize it in illustrator... It makes my logo too thick or cartoony looking. It's already vectorized so if I do it again... It will just make it look like I said... Cartoony.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

If all you have is a PNG, then your logo is not vectorized.

You will have to draw it manually. Don't use the image trace function.

[INCam]

Thanks Monika. I don't have the experience enough to do so but, I'll try to grayscale it and then add a black color to it, first. If that doesn't work, I'll have to find someone to re create it. I have trees in the original logo so it may be hard to recreate those since I don't know which kind they are.

[Dynamic Office]

No, what  @Monika is saying is you’ll have to manually recreate the vector, there isn’t a button to magically do this (At least smoothly).

I suspect you may be clicking the ‘live Trace’ function and expecting it to replicate the logo. Though you’re correct that it was probably a vector, once it’s be rasterized as a png/jpeg it’s no longer a vector but a flat image.

If not and your results are still looking cartoony from creating it manually, then this is down to your own ability with the software – if you think you’re not skilled enough to replicate the logo I would recommend hiring a professional to recreate it.

Also, you can play around with the stroke settings here;

Window > Stroke > play with the weight if "to thick"

Request the .Ai file / SVG / eps as well as a png

[Ton Frederiks]

If I understand correctly, it stated as an image, then was autotraced to make a vector logo, that was saved as an image.

Auto tracing it again will not give you good results.

Like Monika suggested; manually vectorizing with the Pen tool and other vector tools.