expanding a scanned pen stroke

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

"Allie" wrote in message

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

it should be in vector format I think
I had one made for me many years ago
the guy used illustrator paths

you could try this

select color range on the black writing
or use your path you made
and change to selection expand it by 5 pixels and fill with black?
if the edges are not pretty you might have to do some clean up with another path

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:43:46 -0400, Allie wrote:

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

It’s called STROKE. select the sig and STROKE.

KatWoman wrote:

"Allie" wrote in message

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

it should be in vector format I think
I had one made for me many years ago
the guy used illustrator paths

you could try this

select color range on the black writing
or use your path you made
and change to selection expand it by 5 pixels and fill with black?
if the edges are not pretty you might have to do some clean up with another path

Hi Kat,

Thanks a bunch for the tip. This is what I ended up doing. It’s a fine solution for now, though it doesn’t end up looking much like a real pen, just pure black and all. I feathered the selection a bit, but still, not quite the real deal. What I was really hoping to find was something that would allow me to stretch the raster out, to make it look basically the same as before, but just with a fatter stroke.

Anyway, thanks a bunch. If anyone else has any ideas about how to stretch out a complicated selection’s contents, lemme know!

Thanks,
Allie

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:43:46 -0400, Allie wrote:

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie

It’s called STROKE. select the sig and STROKE.

Thanks for this. I ended up doing something similar, though the same comment goes as went for KatWoman: it works for me for now, though I was really looking for a way to stretch out the raster in such a way as to maintain the look of a written signature. Stroking a color just doesn’t look much like the real mccoy. thanks again.

allie

Thanks for this. I ended up doing something similar, though the same comment goes as went for KatWoman: it works for me for now, though I was really looking for a way to stretch out the raster in such a way as to maintain the look of a written signature. Stroking a color just doesn’t look much like the real mccoy. thanks again.

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Allie wrote:

Thanks for this. I ended up doing something similar, though the same comment goes as went for KatWoman: it works for me for now, though I was really looking for a way to stretch out the raster in such a way as to maintain the look of a written signature. Stroking a color just doesn’t look much like the real mccoy. thanks again.

Wow, you did it the hard way!

There’s a filter just for this kind of thing, though since few people use it, few people (even people with Photoshop experience) would think of it. Filter->Other->Minimum. That’s all there is to it.

Hi Folks,

First time on the list. Have been playing with this for a while, but can’t figure out how to do it.

I have a scanned signature (raster). I need to make the signature line fatter, but still want it to look like a written signature. (This is all legal by the way – just for a colleague who is out of town). I’m not quite sure how to "stretch" it. I hope this makes sense. I’ve tried making paths from selections, transforming, etc. It’d be nice if there were some photoshop algorithm like the bicubic it uses when resizing entire photos, but I haven’t been able to find one that will work in this instance.

To paraphrase, let’s say he signed with a size 5 pen. I need to increase that to a size 10.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Allie