I have a jpeg that I want to make a poster out of as a gift, but the quality is pretty poor and it would be very hazy if blown up. Is there any way to enhance it?

 

here is the pic if anyone wants to work on it tonight

 

Since its closer to line art it would be alot easier to increase in size and then go back over and smooth out any rough edges. But it wont scale smoothly like true line art would. So you could be looking at several hours of work.
I havent done image manipulation in years, so the newest version of the Illustrator/Photoshop might be able to help out via filters, but it you truly want it to look like the original, it would require smoothing or redrawing at a larger scale.

 

the best I can think of is increasing the DPI to around 600 or more and then try resizing it. No matter what your going to have to go back and do what Nuki said

I did a quick job, not to bad but it will need some touch up, am not willing to do.

the image size is huge and file size is nearly 30megs on a PNG format. If I remember I'll put on my server for you Monday afternoon

 

Is that the biggest image u have????

How big do u want it>??

 

the only way to resize considerably would be to retrace in a vector based program - changing dpi in photoshop will not make it any clearer at larger res.

I can do it for you but it will take a little while, how important is it that you get it done?

 

how big do you want it (w----px h----px)?

 

35x22.5 inches is poster size I believe.

No rush if you could do this for me, be nice to have it by like december or so for xmas present.

Yeah, it is the only copy of it I have unfortunately.

Thanks for all the responses guys!

 

thats pretty huge, but thats the nice part about vector; resolution independant

 

a couple things; it doesnt fit that aspect ratio (but close enough 33.5x22.5), and it wont look exactly like that pic, and it will be done way before dec.

 

whatever you can do would be greatly appreciated!

 

you need to vectorize it hommie

 

ctzn- Thanks! I'm going to clean that up a bit but looks great!