How can make pixelated pictures less pixelated and more like a sharper picture?

Question

I sent a picture from my phone onto the computer that why its so pixelated...

Answer 1

A telephone picture is taken at a small size and low resolution. It cannot be made large without pixelating because there is just so much information and no more. It will be sharp only when it is smalI. When you scale it up the pixels just get bigger. You need more pixels if you want more sharpness.
If there is a setting on your phone to increase the size or resolution of the pictures the phone camera takes, you can increase it. I don't think most phones have this ability, though digital cameras often do. Remember: larger size or greater resolution takes more memory.

In an imaging program, such as Photoshop, you can increase the resolution and the program will extrapolate new pixels from the nearby ones. This can leave artifacts, which are signs of computer generation.

Bitmap images are made of pixels. Vector images can be enlarged by mathematical formulas so that the picture stays the same. Some imaging programs can handle vector images. If you can convert your image to vector based, you can increase teh size without degradation.

Good luck. Best advise is to start with a higher resolution image.

Answer 2

Without going into too much detail the the most likely reason why your image doesn't look great on your computer is because the lenses on most camera phones are of poor quality resulting in poor resolution, and doubly compounding the problem of resolution the cameras image sensor is quite small.
On the other hand if by a slim chance your cell phone does in fact have a good lens and has a robust image sensor of above 3.0megapixels other problems may be that when you view your image on the computer you have zoomed in on the image in whatever preview application you are using, or your computer is using a high-end graphics card which is set above 72dpi, 72dpi being the setting at which what many cell phones capture their images at. To change your display settings on a pc you have to to go start > control panels > displays > settings > advanced. Under the advanced settings if your monitor is set above say 72dpi lower it to match your cameras settings and you should get a sharper image. If you are using a mac, unless you have purposely switched your video card you should not have to switch your display settings.

Answer 3

That's interesting

Answer 4

You cannot increase the quality of a picture.. You can only decrease... You can try blurring the picture a bit.. but it wont be sharp... It has to be a high resolution picture to start with..

Answer 5

Use a lower ISO also, go into the Shooting Menu and select High ISO Noise Reduction. This may help.

Answer 6

Haven't considered it

Answer 7

it depends...