Making a graphic bigger

[trinity0159]

Hi,

I am a newbie to graphics and was wondering if any of you could possibly take the image below and make into a 500px wide image. Right now it is 80 pixels wide.

Thanks!

[Varelse]

Can You upload it on Your server or any image hosting site?
We'll have to wait until the attachment is approved otherwise...

[trinity0159]

its mainly this nissan logo which can be found here: http://www.courtesyparts.com/images/logo_nissan-1st.gif

[Varelse]

Better re-construction of this artwork would require vectorizing it, which is rather time consuming

[trinity0159]

I was wondering if you could tell me how this was done?

[Varelse]

I've Googled for "nissan owner first" and found quite good image:
http://www.harrisonburgnissan.com/im...irst%20rgb.jpg

Then I've re-sized it, sharpened, filled with colors (gray), replaced "Nissan" with a better version, replaced "Owner First" with text (Arial Black),
And that's all
Does it work for You?

[trinity0159]

cool! Thanks alot! when i googled it i searched for "nissan 1st logo"

[trinity0159]

when you say filled with colors what does that mean?

[Varelse]

when you say filled with colors what does that mean?

Because of lossy JPG compression, there were "artifacts" - visible square areas of slightly distorted colors. I've selected them with magic wand (+subtracting +feathering the selection...) and filled with plain gray instead. Same with white background.

[mmj]

varelse did a remarkable job of enlarging and recreating that image (above) given the time constraints and the source material!