Sony Increased Resolution Quality Comparison

"Raster RGB and INDEXED Increased Resolution Quality Comparison" 

Indexed Color 

Discussion: Saving as an indexed color gave this image terrible, terrible quality. Indexed color consists of only 256 colors or less. Compared to the RGB image which has 16.7 million colors to use the low number of colors gives the image lower quality. As you can see the image has a lot of artifacts around the edges, this was actually visible before it was compressed for delivery. 

RGB 

Discussion: I had some trouble with this image because I didn't get why it was just as terrible as the indexed image if saving as RGB was supposed to make it better. I realized that the issue was that I had changed the resolution size before changing the image to RGB. This makes a huge difference. You must first change the image to RGB and then increase the image resolution to 1000px. This will allow the image to resize in the best quality setting. As you can see, this image, compared the indexed color one above, the edges on this logo are much smoother. 

"High Quality RGB Converted to Vector" 

Discussion: What I did to achieve this image is that I changed the file to RGB and then increased the image resolution to 1,000px. After saving it, I opened it in Adobe Illustrator. I then changed the Image trace to high fidelity. Compared to the second image this image has much nicer quality and softer edges. 

Discussion: With the second image I did not change the resolution. I simply took the image and placed it in Adobe Illustrator. Then I changed it to High Fidelity but as you can see this image is very blurry and the edges aren't even rounded.