Anapan wrote:@Note In graphic design professionally, how do you deal with a client demanding low-resolution Jpeg data being entered into the final product? Do you denoise, then AI upscale it before vectorising, or just recreate it?
Good question, well it really depends on how that particular visual will be used (print or web), how complex the visual is, and the timeframe for getting the work done. I've recreated a lot of assets from scratch in the past, if the project wasn't a rush thing. For example, when laying out a research brief to be printed, if the accompanying charts and figures were all low-res, I would recreate them in Illustrator, so that we had vector files on-hand. Also, there are some Adobe Illustrator tricks to quickly vectorize something if the graphic is simple enough.
Nowadays, it's rare that we actually print something, almost all our materials are online only, so this type of situation doesn't come up as frequently.