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termanator1128
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August 12, 2018
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Need a way to fix a PNG image that has small text.

  • 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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    daksh_3934
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    DaveJCummingsCommunity Expert
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    August 13, 2018

    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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      August 13, 2018

      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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      DaveJCummingsCommunity Expert
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      August 13, 2018

      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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      Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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      August 12, 2018

      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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      August 12, 2018

      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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      August 13, 2018

      You will see the best quality when you view your image zoomed 100% and you scroll the image.  Some of the text is small and if you have a very high resolution display it may be hard your eyes to read.   How good are you eyes at reading fine small text. The size of some of the text is very small and the contrast with  the background is not always good.  Rasterized Text does not scale will via interpolation.  My eyes start tearing trying to read some of you image small text wihch is not sharp for the are too few pixels to store finer detail.  Interpolating an image up or down ins size will always loose some image quality.  The Size may be better for you  but the image quality will be lower zooming up in size the image will get softer more blurry.  You need a larger high quality to begin with. And the faces at the top of the Eiffel tower are to far away to make out.

      For a good example here is a link  to an interactive tour of Paris online.  As you zoom in the image quality get better and better for they have stitch 2346 single photos to create high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159x75570 px).   They have great detail of Paris in the image too much to display at once so they made the image zoomable and scrollable on the  web and implemented it in a way that performs well its useable.  Still when I zoom way in I can not make out faces the detail required are not in that 26giga pixel image. For the faces you can see have been blurred by the site. It all about pixels and resolutiom.  You need pixels to store details

      Paris 26 Gigapixels - Interactive virtual tour of the most beautiful monuments of Paris


      For it to work in the game I am using it needs to be in 6 sections and I took that image and sectioned it and made those sections into a 4048x4048 image and I took a picture of it in-game, with it fully zoomed that the game allows and here is what it looks like.

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      August 12, 2018

      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

      JJMack
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      termanator1128Author
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      August 12, 2018

      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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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      August 12, 2018

      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.

      JJMack
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