Photoshop Tracing

[skippy307]

Hey guys,

So i'm trying to make some banners for forums for a paintball team i just started, done a few before on fireworks but they weren't fantastic.

so i have a image of a skull waring a hat. it started out as a jpeg, i put it into photoshop, scaled it up and messed around to get better quality.

now i've come to make it smaller for a forum sig and no matter what i do the quality goes very poor to say the least, so i tried tracing it using pen tool, but i cant work out how to do it better and how to cut sections out.


ive attached the picture.

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[ibclare]

How small was the image to begin with? How small do you want to make it now. The pen tool would be best for tracing, but it's a complicated outline. It will take you awhile to do the whole thing. If you still have the path, zoom in and use the white select tool to move the anchor points and handles around to get it slightly inside the image then you will get a pretty good facsimile of the skull.

Illustrator would probably be the better program to use for the tracing.

Here is my work with the pen tool on part of the image. I masked that part off from the original. And yes, I did go back in with the zoom tool and adjust some points and curves, etc.

 

[IamSam]

Not sure I'm following, I scaled it down using transform and it scaled just fine.

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Signature size. Everything this small loses quality.

 

[ibclare]

That is so!

 

[skippy307]

having another play it may have been zoomed too far in :banghead:

this is what i was working on at the time...

View attachment Shoulder Patch.psd

View attachment sig 500x150.psd

 

[ibclare]

Looks pretty good.