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Hello all,
I've been a very casual photoshop user for years, and know the basics of the program. However I'm a bit stumped with a current task. I recently had a friend do a single color shape-based logo design for my band. I love what he came up with, but I never got any type of hi-res or vector files from him (just a jpg of the logo on white BG), and he has since been very busy with work and other things. I was able to pull out the white from the middle of the logo (image attached in PNG format for reference) to make the shape usable for smaller designs (stickers etc), but I'd like to be able to size it up without loss of quality. I tried to select by color and make a path from the selection, but that didn't look right no matter how I tried. Is there any way that do something similar so that I could make the shape into a vector? Thanks in advance for any help.

230x330 just isn't big enough to use as a basis, and the author surely isn't so busy that they can't email the artwork through to you as an attachment. do you know what app they used? In the few minutes since my last post I have made a work path of the outside, and one of the cutouts. If you did the same and scaled up the work path so you could clean up the curves, you could make the dots with half tone on a raster layer, convert that to a path, and combine with the main art work. You'd need to maneuver and mask the half tone dots into place, and on several different layers. Do this at a decent pixel size if that's the way you want to do it.
Or you could do the entire thing as a vector in the first place. Lay out a row of dots and FT using perspective to make them taper. Maybe a wee bit fiddly, but an hour or two should easily cover it.
Or just ask your friend for the art work for you to finish 'if your friend is really so busy'.

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