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Can anyone fix this easier than I can?

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So I drew this picture then did what ever on paint and now it looks like crap!
All those pixels.
I don't know what to do. Help would be sa-weet.

Bah Humbug!
Scroll down a bit for the picture! C:
She is a Norse Viking! Woot.
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Re: Can anyone fix this easier than I can?

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Well if you gave us the pic we could fix it using photoshop I guess. Not much I can do over here without the pic.
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Isn't that the pic?
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Had to change the format of it to get it to work! Bah humbug!
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Eh, if given time I suppose I could clean it up for you but I guarantee that there are people on this forum that are way better at this.
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I don't mind. Any help is appreciated. C:
Her name is Narth Orwhal.
'Cause I like Thor and Narwhals. So I put the two names together and the same on her helmet. C: C: C:
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Well, what exactly do you want done? I mean I see the pixely stuff around the lines but...

If you scanned it just scan again at higher res.

DON'T use paint. Get Gimp, I have photoshop but figured I'd give Gimp a try and with 1 minute it was 1,000 times better than paint.
You probably just compressed it too much when saving it in paint. Gimp might give you better results even at same size/compression.

Nice drawing though, and it's sad she had to kill a Narwhal to make that helmet.
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First, you saved it as a JPEG in paint. That means your quality is going to suck. Even if you want it in JPG format, do it in GIMP or Photoshop and save it with 100% quality.

What you probably need to do after that is some antialiasing work.
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Divine Fate wrote:First, you saved it as a JPEG in paint. That means your quality is going to suck. Even if you want it in JPG format, do it in GIMP or Photoshop and save it with 100% quality.

What you probably need to do after that is some antialiasing work.
Yeah, all I was going to do was re-save in photoshop and just fix quality.
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Sigh, I didn't scan it. I took a picture of it with my phone. Sigh. Um I'll see what I can do. I just wanted to get those darn little pixels out of the picture.
Here is the original.
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I'll take a stab at it tommorrow Sas, basically what I do at work.

Inkscape will work great. It's a freeware vector art program, you should check it out.
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Really! Sa-weet.
I'll take a look at it too.
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Lets see what I can attach...

Should be a decent res jpeg you can shrink for avatar or something.
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And the svg file is an Inkscape file. You can open it and change thickness of lines, add color, whatever. You can scale it too but I think the best way for a good png out of it is to keep the drawing large, export png, open png in gimp and save to size as hi res jpeg.
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attach svg?

hmm, guess I can't attach svg, could email though.

heres a png too

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now I see, the png is transparent because I didn't add a background color. Oh well, the jpg is probably better anyway
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Original wrote:attach svg?

hmm, guess I can't attach svg, could email though.

heres a png too

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now I see, the png is transparent because I didn't add a background color. Oh well, the jpg is probably better anyway

Idk. If she made that into a TF2 spray, staying transparent like that, I think it'd look pretty cool.

...not that she's doing that.
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Oh man!! Thank you! I just downloaded Gimp and its pretty awesome. Still getting the hang of it but thank you so much!
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Your welcome.

There is a gimp plugin I believe for sprays too so...
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Hmmm. Everyone is asking me if I'm gonna do it for a spray.
I guess I'll try it. Not like there is a down side to it.
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