Help with enlarging pictures?

Question

i have just scanned these pictures and i would like to enlarge it without the picture becoming pixelated.

what is the best way to do this?

here is the picture to view it.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/mz_deena/capitals.jpg

Answer 1

Try using Microsoft Picture Office Manager. That's if you have it.. If you're on a MAC, I'm not too sure then. Maybe Photoshop.

Answer 2

you can either change the setting on your scanner to scan it bigger or i think photobucket might have a photo editor that can resize stuff

Answer 3

It's not possible as far as I know, you can use photoshop to smooth out the pixels but it will never be a clear picture.

Answer 4

If you can afford an expensive digital enhancing then you could.

If you have a good and quite expensive vector tracing program then you can turn the pic into a vector graphic (which is made of calculations rather than pixels)

Nothing that you can do much.

Answer 5

The best way to do it is to go back and scan it again at higher resolution. This is because the only option when enlarging apart from pixelated is going blurry.

Answer 6

Absolutely no way.  Sorry :(.

Try scanning it at a higher resolution, say 500 dpi.

Answer 7

There are Free Transform in the Edit menu in Photoshop, use it to enlarge the picture.

Now Select All (CTRL+A) the picture, use Blur plugin to depixelate. And also you can use the contrast feature.

Hope it helps,

HSP

Answer 8

do you live in japan?

Answer 9

It's not possible with raster images (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, etc); you can do it with vector based images (SVG) though.

For raster, simply put, the data isn't there. If you have a 16x16px image, you have data describing what color each of the 256 pixels is. If you try to resize that image to 32x32, you can't just create new data. It just isn't there. Graphics programs try to guess, but the results are always blurry. The computer can't tell how the image is supposed to look, because there are many possible appearances, so the computer just guesses and creates a fuzzy average.