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Logo Help

bwfc0907

bwfc0907

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My local junior football team has a logo, but its poor quality. How can I get it to look new, clear & professional? Is there any way to improve the resolution so can keep it clear when using for presentations, etc. I eventually want it looking shiny and new but don't know where to start. Any help is appreciated.
 

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Resolution of a raster file can't really be improved. Your best bet would be to have it recreated in some sort of vector program such as Illustrator or Corel Draw. This way it would always look good and sharp no matter what it goes on.

If you don't have access to a vector program, your designer could do it over starting at a high resolution. Upping the resolution of an already-made file won't do it.
 
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Possumgal said:
Resolution of a raster file can't really be improved. Your best bet would be to have it recreated in some sort of vector program such as Illustrator or Corel Draw. This way it would always look good and sharp no matter what it goes on.

If you don't have access to a vector program, your designer could do it over starting at a high resolution. Upping the resolution of an already-made file won't do it.
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Sorry new to all this. What is a raster file?
 
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Sorry new to all this. What is a raster file?
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The file you posted is an example of a rasterized image; it is made up of pixels. There are only so many pixels and while photo editing applications can enlarge a rasterized image, it does so essentially by guessing. As a result, when you enlarge a rasterized file a lot, you either see the pixels it is made of, or it gets really blurry from the photo editing program guessing at what should be there.

The opposite of a rasterized file is a vector file. A vector file is not made of up of pixels, but is, more or less, a math equation. It represents a line, for instance, not with pixels, but with an equation of that line. So, if you make that line bigger, the math simply follows. As a result, you could increase an image made of vectors to the size of the moon and it would be as sharp as it is at the size of a postage stamp.
 
It would probably take 30 minutes start to finish. If you could match the font. good luck ;)
 
Probably wouldn't be too hard to do. Using adobe illustrator you could live trace it, touch it up and resize it as large as you want with no loss of quality.
 
Take the opportunity and do a new logo. Being "forced" can be a great opportunity to get changes passed.

I recommend viewing info about great flag design - there's a good video which includes examples of before and after and a good chart out there somewhere as well. The principles very much apply to logos.
 
I tried. The bottom font is just traced as I have no idea what was used and Comic Sans didn't help. You could probably do it with stroke and path, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
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cruisin said:
I tried. The bottom font is just traced as I have no idea what was used and Comic Sans didn't help. You could probably do it with stroke and path, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
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You got the font wrong on the ISC. It's Arial (possibly Arial Black), not Helvetica. The bottom font is Arial Rounded (Bold, if I'm not mistaken).
 
bwfc0907 said:
Stunning. Any chance of a Lion (team name) instead of the tiger and including original colours plus a football & an Indian type flag colours somehow included.
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OK, gotcha :) didn't know about lions
 
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