Is there ANY way to enlarge a photo without distorting it?

Question

Does anyone know how to do this or a place that can do this?
We would like to crop and enlarge a picture of my brother in law to put on his headstone. Everytime we try to enlarge it, it comes out distorted. It's just a regular photo that was taken of him and two of his brothers.
If anyone knows how to do this, would you be willing to try it for me???
Thanks to anyone who can help!

Answer 1

There are ways to do this but they aren't done often because they are time consuming, expensive, and not always successful.

#1 If the image is digital have a photo print made of the image in the original size at a photo developer shop. (You can upload images to ritzpix.com and get a print but remember to keep the sizing close to the original -- no enlarging yet.) If the photo is a 35mm snap shot print move on to step 2.

#2 Then take the photo print into a professional photo developing shop and have a large format negative made of the image.

#3 Now have that pro-developer make the enlargement from the negative.

this method isn't full proof. Some time the cropped image is so small it's already too blurry to make out in the original, but this will help keep it from distorting as bad as just sizing up a digital image or trying to make a large format image from a cropped 35mm negative.

Not all photo developers will do these services. Look for a film developer of Fine aArt prints and/or large formate prints.
Good luck.

Answer 2

send it to a pro shop like Kinko's or something. Its alot easier. Also, if the picture has a low resolution, it may be very blurry when you enlarge it.

Answer 3

My parents tried to do that with my grandparents old picture to no avail. In the end, they hired a professional portrait painter.

Answer 4

photoshop baby

Answer 5

write to "[e-mail]" and explain what you want.