Scanning and cleaning up using Photoshop

I am not sure if this should go here or in the creative forum. I am sorry if I placed it in the wrong forum, but need some assistance that I think other people could benefit from reading.



This would be an example.... need to straighten the edges. I scan it and of course it prints at a DPI and I need to get these smoothed out, or straighten out and rid the ragged-ness of it. I hope there is a photoshop action, filter, etc to accomplish this task. I have a project that requires 10 scans, and I really do not want to have to tidy them up all by myself.

Thanks in advance...

 

most of the noise can be removed with the topaz filters, but I'm afraid that smoothing the edges out will take some manual drawing.

 

Slightly better.

 

So I was playing around with Corel Draw and it has a trace feature. It helps a bit... you can use a straighten feature or sometimes it traces without the jagged marks...

I appreciate the effort, I just was hoping for a quciker fix than hand fixing them.

Cheers!

 

I didn't hand fix it. I used filters and it took about 12 seconds.

 

My ex-wife does this for a living. If it's for professional-looking output, you pretty much have to do it by hand. Or alternating your modifications by hand and with a filter. Good luck!

 

Yeah...

I had to do them by hand. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought...

I scanned them in at 1200 DPI.

Then enlarged them some more. Put on a surface blur to get rid of the hard edges. Throw a slight medium filter on it and then shrink it using the softer filter.

I would magic wand the white area, which would leave the jaggedness. I went in with the lasso tool and straightened out the selected areas, then fill in with appropriate colors, etc.

Once it got to the standard size of like 800 x 800 give or take depending on the logo, they looked pretty good... but it did take me an entire afternoon. Hey Im getting paid for it...

Again thanks for the help and the vine to just see if there was something!