help resizing photo

I imported a photo from google into photoshop but the image was tiny. I tried to enlarge it but it went out of focus is there any way around this . please any help for a beginner gratefully accepted.

As far as i am aware there is nothing you can do, as the image is set to that size, so if you try to enlarge it there is no more information saved in the image to come out, if that makes sense?
Also all those images will be copyrighted so doubt they'd want anyone doing anything to them.

Thanks for the reply ,at least now I know it's not something I was doing wrong

Yeah, you can't make images larger without consequences.
Your imaging program will have to 'imagine' the pixels that weren't there before, traditionally most programs don't do such a good job.

I found this site http://www.sxc.hu/ for stock photo's that I thought could be used in photoshop, but when I try to put them into the photoshop program they are tiny . Am I doing something wrong.

hi,
are you downloading the right picture?

I noticed on the site... it will tell the resolution of the picture below the thumbnail

and those are nice large pictures however you have click on a couple of thumbnails before you get to the actual picture....

from what i see.. the first thumbnails is only about 100x100,,,, then after click ing that one you get another but larger thumbnail and that only about 200x300, and then after clicking that one you have to put in your password... and you get the orginal large picture that you download... and those there are much large... and that one's you want to download..

buddha2007 said:

I found this site http://www.sxc.hu/ for stock photo's that I thought could be used in photoshop, but when I try to put them into the photoshop program they are tiny . Am I doing something wrong.

Many thanks got it sorted now. once you explained it in idiot proof terms , thanks again for the help

hi,
Great you got it sorted out now..... your quite welcome and happy thanksgiving...

buddha2007 said:

Many thanks got it sorted now. once you explained it in idiot proof terms , thanks again for the help

As the others were saying, you cant add pixels after the fact,
so best to get a large enough image to start, but if you have to, you can in large images (works best with 100 plus pixels) by going into image size (comand/control-alt+I) change the image size from inches to percent, and you can en large the image by 110 percent at a time, this should get okay results with good pixel size, but as pixel size goes down, so does the clarity,so be aware not to do it to many times,

hope this helps.

Thanks again for all the help and advice