Photo Clip Art Poor Quality

Hope someone can help.

I extracted a deer antler from a picture and exported it as .png. When I imported it into a file it had lost a lot of its resolution and was blurry.

So, trying again, I increased my original antler size and exported it again as a larger png file. There was some improvement but it did not look near as clear and sharp as the original.

Is there anyway I can save my photo clip art to use at a later date without loosing photo resolution? (Note: I did have an antler without any background).

Thank you.

Can we see examples please? Otherwise we'll all just guess at what's happening.

And, are you importing the saved clipart back into Xara Designer Pro X or another application?

What was the resolution and size of the origional photo?

The original photo was taken on an iphone at 1936 pixels x 2592 pixels 72 dpi.

Of course, the antler was only a part of the picture.

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I did import the antler back into Xara, and it looked OK, but when I imported it into PowerPoint it looked poor. When I imported the deer picture into PowerPoint the corresponding antler looked great.

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Thank You,

One more question. Were you using the antler larger than the original? or, the same size or smaller?

When you bring the original photo into xara make sure it is at 100% (not zoom but the image setting). Sometimes xara reduces an imported photos display size on the page if the photo is over a certain size and if you edit and export it when it's at less than 100% you'll lose some resolution on the exported file.

All is good! Thank you all for your help.

I also followed the thread on PNG export quality. As it turns out, I was exporting the PNG at the default size. I have now learned that I can go into options when exporting and choose to export at 300 dpi. (more info on other thread)

So, I imported the deer to Xara, cut out the antler, then I resize the antler to be a full page size, then saved it at 300 dpi. Then imported into PowerPoint and the antler was as good as in original photo.:D