Image enlarging question

If you have a image that you want to enlarge but do not want the pixels to be shown as small squares how can you enlarge the picture but with the best quality?

Dont really know. Cause i wanted to know this aswell. I don tthink there is a way around it. I have tryed but it always seems to just go pixelilated. Veyr hard.

Resolution is the answer....

without enough resolution you can't enlarge a photo without it getting like that.

you need 72 dpi for the photo NOT to look pixelated....

but if you take a 72 DPI picture and enlarge it it doesn't have 72 DPI anymore.

as the physical size of the photo increases the DPI decreases.

example:

a picture at 150 DPI enlarged 200% will have 75 DPI....

see what I mean?


bottom line.... start with the largest image you can find.

This Photoshop plug-in is supposed to help increase the size of the image above the original without looking like crap. Give it a try.

http://www.altamira-group.com/

Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches

I worked with a guy a while back that used dust and scratches to clean up images that he inlarged...i adopted this technique and it seems to help at least a little bit and maybee a bunch if your enlarging a jpeg...hope that was helpfull

Chris Brown