Please help, I will forever be in love with you if you do

[peramoure]

Yo.

So my girlfriend is fascinated with graffiti art and am having some problems because I want framed art for her apartment. Lets say I find an image I REALLY like, but it is incredibly low resolution. KEEP IN MIND that all of these images are usually just stencils. Like this one -->

http://emiliestaat.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/banksy-2.jpg

So that is an image I would like to print for my girlfriend. She loves it. I want to print it in a really high resolution, like (estimated) 3000 x 2000 w/ 300 DPI for an 18x24 poster.

This is what I've done so far, but the EDGES and the inside of the black on the girl look grainy.

1. Resize the original to huge proportions, select by color, and copy that selection and move it over to the other one in a new layer.

2. Mess around with feather, smooth, expand, fill, etc, until I try to get it to look good. It is kind of grainy and the edges aren't smooth like they need to be for print.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? If you can help me I can paypal a couple bucks if necessary.

The other print she likes is more technical (just more colors), but that means more grainyness and hardness for me. It looks like this:

http://solehiphop.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/banksy_bang300_300x400.jpg


LET ME KNOW! Thanks so much y'all. To summarize:

I need a low res, two or three color image, converted in to a high res, print ready image. The edges need to be smooth.

 

[peramoure]

i'll paypal someone if they can show me how to do this.

 

[admin]

If it is a simple image like the first one you linked, you could try converting it to a vector image. There's a number of tools available to do this, try a search for Raster to Vector on google.

Once you have a vectore image that looks good you can make it any size you want without losing quality.

Good luck.

 

[iDad]

depending on how much it needs to be "that image" I could probably redraw it in vector
"the girl and balloon" very easy .the other, more time

 

[Yutosi]

Conversion to vector seems like your best bet.... there are some plugins and tools that can make it easier, do a search.

 

[hawkeye]

18 X 24 at 300 PPI would equal 5400 X 7200 pixels. There is no reasonable approach to making a low res. image into a high res. image, short of creating a whole new one. Essentially that is what you would be doing, to turn it into a vector image.