Pixelation removal

[stefanz40219435]

Hey,so I have an image in Photoshop which was blurry, so I traced it with the pen tool, made a color fill out of it, so I basically I redrew it as a shape and then I did sharpen to make it clear and ot blurry. But now the pixels are very large when I zoom in. Is there a way to make them samller or smoothen them? In Photoshop I know if I make it a vector it's fine but the design has to be done in Photoshop.

[davescm]

'But now the pixels are very large when I zoom in.'

How far have you zoomed in?  If you zoom to more than 100% then you are going to see pixels. Photoshop is a pixel editor so the smallest unit it can draw is a pixel.

If you have any vector shapes within your document then they will be drawn using current document pixels. Resize the document and vector shapes will be redrawn using the new document pixels.

Dave

[Bojan Živković]

You expect Illustrator preview for vector data in Photoshop it seems. When heavily enlarging in Photoshop it will try to simulate pixels for both, pixel and vector based data. Press Ctrl + 1 then judge. That's how things work in Photoshop.

[stefanz40219435]

Yeah I guess it's because it's a raster image it's gonna be pixelated when I zom in, that's fine. But notice how the pixels in the other image are smaller probably because it's higher res. Can I make the image of the princess which is a separate image from the backgorund look higher res(smaller pixels)? I know it's not possible technically but can I at least make it look like it is(not actually being so) with soem filter or trick?

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Look closely. The pixels in the background are not smaller. With less contrast between the colours the edges are less obvious.

Your sharpen step has probably emphasised those edges and made the anti-aliasing less effective. I would do it again without that step

Dave

[stefanz40219435]

yeha you are actually right. And the fact that it's pure white and it contrasts a lot emphasizes them even more. Well that's fine then. Maybe I will tune down the sharpening a little bit so they are less obvious. It looks fantastic at 100% already so no big deal

[stefanz40219435]

Also I am wondering about this. 

1. if I import a png into a vector app(not necessarily illustrator but still a vector app) then trace it, make it a vector, export as SVG, reimport into photoshop(without changing image size) will it look better into Photoshop? Or will there be no difference once it resterizes?

   Also will it make a difference if I export in higher resolution and downscale to the original one in Photoshop?

[davescm]

When you bring vectors into Photoshop, or make them in Photoshop, they are displayed using the pixel dimensions of the Photoshop document.

Dave

[stefanz40219435]

Thanks but it was not necessary becuase I realized I was zooming in to an image thta was already like 3000 by 3000 px or some crazy resolution like that. I mean that's hi-res enough for me, I jus had the size in cm and didn't realze how big it is. I mean when I don't zoom in, it looks fine and for such a resolution I don' need zooming in. But thanks I will remember that for the future!