Images form Microsoft Word

[Jackie W]

Whenever I copy and paste a logo made in Word in to PSE 2, as 'new from clipboard', it loses all its clarity from the edges or text.
I have tried saving it as .png but this does not help.
Is there a way to make a clear copy of the logo as an image file in PSE please.
Thanks

[BobHill]

Jackie,

You're rasterizing the WORD image which pixelizes it. To do a super clear version, you need a vector imaging program such as Adobe Illustrator.

Bob

[Jackie W]

Thanks Bob

Out of interest how come it works alright in Publisher and Word, being dragged to resize. Yet using one of the best image editing programs on the market Adobe, it makes a right jagged mess of it.
If you have the time you could please explain your answer a little bit more.I need to try and explain to the person who made it why I cannot make an image of it and circulate as a jpg or tiff.
Would I be correct in saying that because the image was created in Word, no normal image editing program could make a clean job of it(Ones that average users might have; PS Elements, Serif, Picture It, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact).
If you can name another other than Illustrator it may help
Thank you

[Mac McDougald]

You are probably referring to a vector image in Word (clipart, wordart,
etc?).

Publisher would also treat it as vector.

But pasted into PhotoShop, it will be translated as raster.
Same as into any other pixel based image editor, including the ones you
mention.

Understand the diff between vector and raster?

Mac

[Jackie W]

Thanks Mac
I know there is a difference but did not appreciate what that actually means in practice.

Is that why printable logos created within Word only make the Word document a few more kbs but if you insert file using a logo created in PSE, saved as tiff the document becomes much larger?

Regards
Phil

[Mac McDougald]

Basically, yeah.

Vector images are made of shapes, raster images of pixels.
Even where there is "nothing" in a raster image, there is the same pixel
density to show the nothing as there the "something".

Mac