Clearing Up An Image?

Question

I saw a similar question asked about two hours ago, but mine is a bit different.

I have a GIF Image (350x133) that I copied and pasted onto MS Paint to enlarge. As I expected though, the image became overly-pixelated and it has made it pretty much impossible to see faces (it's a group photo). And as it stands, it's also much to small to make anything out (50+ people situated in the picture).

What solutions, if any, are available to correct my dilemma? I saw something about Auto-Sharpening using PhotoShop on the other question I mentioned above. Would it work in my situation as well?

Answer 1

Way way way too small to do anything with.  Try and get a higher resolution version or give up.  

350 x 133 pixels = 46 thousand pixels.  Most poor mobile phones have 3 Million!

GIF is a bad format for a photo as its format only supports 256 colours.  Photos should be PSD, TIFF or JPEG.

and finally....MS Paint is NOT a photo editing tool and will do more harm to a photographic image file than good.  

Answer 2

The file is too small for any Photo package to do anything with I'm afraid, as a rule of thumb you need 1mb per 1" to get a first class print, this file is just 46.5 Kb so with the above formula will print decently at about 0.25" !

Chris