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Need a way to fix a PNG image that has small text.

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August 12, 2018
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I have an image that I received that has small numbers and text around it and when I zoom in it gets blurry/pixilated. When I change the image size it is still blurry/pixilated. Is there any way that I can make it so that it looks at least halfway decent when zoomed in? If you want the image just reply that you want it and I can upload it.

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DaveJCummings

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As others have said, you will have to recreate the text. its something I have to do all the time with my day job with files customers send us. If you truly want it to not be blurry at all when you zoom in, you might want to recreate it as a vector image in Illustrator. And please, don't get rude with us. We're trying to help you. I understand its frustrating when things don't work the way you want them to work in an app and we're doing our best to help you. But also keep in mind, none of us are Adobe employees, we're people who use the apps just like you and we're using our experience to help

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termanator1128Author

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Again, it wasn't rude. And I understand that. How can I recreate the text if I can't read what the text says?

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DaveJCummings

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You either need to make a bess guess as to what it says, or track down who made the image and see if you can get a higher res image or one that has the original layers that have text, as others have said. There's no way to magically make the text become clear, because when its flattened and set up at that resolution, whatever sharpness it once had isn't there anymore. You can try to tweak contrast or mess with the sharpness filter, but its not going to help too much.

Derek Cross

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Maybe post the image in here so we can see.

By the way, what are the pixel dimensions of your image?

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termanator1128Author

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Here is the image Rika's Address Map (Dispatch Desktop Version) 04-29-2018.jpg - Google Drive it just too large for the uploader.

The image size is 4144x5624

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termanator1128Author

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So you do not think zooming is scaling your image.

The only time you are looking at your actual image pixels is when you view zoomed to 100% Actual image pixels. At any other zoom percentage you are not viewing your Image. You are viewing a quickly scale version of you image that image image has more or fewer pixels then your actual image. If you zoom in greater then 100% the scaled image has more pixels than your image. If you zoom out the scaled image has fewer pixels than your image.

Displays can not change their resolution. The only way to change the size an image displays on a display is by scaling the image to a different size by changing the number of pixels the image has. If you zoom to 200% the scaled image has 4 times the number of pixels you actual image has.

You display resolution is most likely lower the your image print DPI resolution in that case you image will print smaller and sharper then what you see on your display.

Zoomed to 100% your image will not fit on your display even an 8K display can not display an image 4144pixels wide. If you set your image print resolution to 296DPI your image will print 14" wide and 19" high, Tht print will be smaller and sharper than what you see on your display image zoomed to 100%. However, you will only see a portion of you printed image on your display. The portion on your display will be larger then the printed size and less sharp. Your display has a resolution less then 296DPI. You can print your image a different size by changing the print pixel size the Print DPI resolution with out scaling the number of pixels you have for the image. If you change the image Print DPI resolution to 96 DPI you image will print 42" by 57" and the area on you display will be the same size and sharpness in your print if you has a normal 96 DPI display.

Now you are getting into printing which I don't want to do. I want to be able to have this on my site and for people to be able to zoom in and be able to read all of the text. There is a road that is labeled that I saw but cannot read what it says. I also want to put this into my game which needs to break the image into 6 sections, not sure if that makes it better or not but that is something as well.

So if there isn't a way to fix it then just tell me.

JJMack

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If you interpolate rasterized text way up in size it will become very soft distorted and unreadable. Try adding text layers that cover the unusable interpolated resized text

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termanator1128Author

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Well, I didn't make the image and it would be very hard to get the same text in the same spot that it's in.

JJMack

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If its not you image you should not use the image without permission. Ask the owner if they still have the source and can they resize it for your use.

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