Photo Clip Art Poor Quality

[BeanPole]

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.

[steve.ledger]

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?

[wizard509]

What was the resolution and size of the origional photo?

[BeanPole]

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.



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.



Thank You,

[wizard509]

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

[xtom]

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.

[BeanPole]

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.