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BucNastyHater
05-04-2006, 11:44 AM
I have a picture that I just scanned and its very small resolution, about 150x200 im guessing. Does anyone know how to enlarge it and not make it all pixelated and blurry? Is there a tool in photoshop for this? Or could I just upload the pic and have someone here do it. I kinda need this by tomorrow so any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

Dynamic
05-04-2006, 11:56 AM
If you have PhotoShop or PaintShop Pro it will do the trick. I can't remember which option but there is one that you can adjust manually the resolution height and width on a picture and save it. So look around on the tab settings at the top for something close to what you're looking for, very easy!

Overconfidence
05-04-2006, 09:28 PM
There are ways to make the picture bigger, clear up a bit of noise, etc, but..

The image that you have is 150x200 pixels. The entire image is composed of 30000 little dots, 150 rows and 200 columns. That's it. Nothing special about it. Just a bunch of colored dots. There's no way that you can enlarge that picture while magically gaining quality. Photoshop can GUESS what goes in between those little dots when you enlarge it, but you can't gain what was lost when the image got smaller. Post the picture and we can try... but don't expect much.

Vapor
05-04-2006, 09:38 PM
Out of curiosity....when you scanned it, why didn't you use a higher resolution? Even if if increase the DPI tighter than the printed pixel pitch, that can easily be remedied. But unfortunately, like Overconfidence said, you won't get much out of it other than what's already there.

BucNastyHater
05-05-2006, 01:04 PM
I used a friends Multi-purpose printer/scanner and I was in a little hurry. I had no idea how to use it. I put the picture in and pressed the scan button on the printer and it was in my documents a few minutes later. I guess I should've used software other than the printer. When I would zoom in using Windows Picture & Fax viewer, it would look horrible. Once I printed it in photoshop, fitting to scale, it didnt look too bad.