I'm trying to enlarge a few photos, but when I try the image gets distorted and blurry.
2007-03-23 04:24:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
One of my friends for another state took some pics on her digital camera. She uploaded them into her compuer and posted the after creating them into thumbnail size. After she did that, they were accidentally erased from the camera. They are all around 128x85
2007-03-23 06:25:06 · update #1
There are programs but they cost $. Photozoom makes a few of the more inexpensive programs. If you have an image that has a higer dpi, it will enlarge better.
2007-03-23 04:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by chikkenbone 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is difficult if not impossible tho take a low resolution image, say from a web setting of 72dpi at 2x2in and make a larger image without distortion. It is easier to size down than up because you're trying to take less information and make more out of it going up. What size is the original and how big are you going for? If you have Adobe Photoshop, you can try enlarging the image in 10% increments. There are programs such as Alien Skin Blow Up which does a pretty good job looking a the article I just read. However, it runs about $199. You can download a trial from alienskin.com
2007-03-23 06:11:58 · answer #2 · answered by tnexposurephoto 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There probably is, but it would also be very expensive and you most likely end up with something that doesn't look natural. In general, if the data isn't there, it can't be created from thin air. When something is shot in low resolution, that's it...you can't add to it. You can enlarge it, and the computer can make an attempt to fill in the gaps, but it generally doesn't look good. When something has been reduced to a thumbnail, all the extra data that was used to render the photo when it was larger is stripped off. Always try to find the source file to get the most detail.
2007-03-23 14:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Ken F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ofoto.com does a good job. It's cheap and it's a kodac company website. You have to download the photo to their site first. Some photos can be enlarged well and some cannot. If a photo was not taken with a proper exposure and it's grainy it will become more grainy the larger it gets. Well taken photos also get grainier the larger they get, but at a much slower rate.
Good Luck.
2007-03-23 04:35:42 · answer #4 · answered by HeartOfGlass 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theres a program called Genuine Fractals that enlarges pix.
Don't know what it costs, but I din't think it's cheap.
2007-03-23 14:20:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best program - Adobe Photoshop!!
2007-03-23 05:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋