Help!,cannot enlarge my pic without it becoming pixelated

11 Feb 2012

I have a pic i was hoping to down load on here but it's quite small i enlarged it but its become all pixelated i have searched google and have tried a few things but to no avail :sad: anyone ? xx

11 Feb 2012

Can't be done for a bitmap image, even with Photoshop and lots of clever filters. Enlarging a bitmap image by resampling / interpolation always means loss of detail. The enlargement process basically involves Photoshop or a filter type thing trying to fill in the gaps based on nearest colour, and while Photoshop does a decent enough job of it for small increases in scale the result will always be pixelated for larger ones. Simple solution is take a better quality image then scale down. Works much better.

11 Feb 2012

I was going to say what Neil said, but he beat me to it! rolleyes

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11 Feb 2012

Yay me! Out-teching the techs! :smug: Course, the proof of the pudding is when Meaty turns up and tells me all anyone needs is a simple upgrade to what people in media land are all using these days? I'm still earning a living from Adobe CS2. rolleyes

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11 Feb 2012

Quote by neilinleeds
Yay me! Out-teching the techs! :smug: Course, the proof of the pudding is when Meaty turns up and tells me all anyone needs is a simple upgrade to what people in media land are all using these days? I'm still earning a living from Adobe CS2. :P

Cheeky gimp smackbottom

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.....although you can try changing the image resolution to something like 600, select the entire image and copy it, opening a new document in a larger size to you original piccie but at something like TV res (72), paste in your saved image, scale to fit and see how it looks- it all depends on the compression/resolution on the original wink

(CS2?.....typical Yorkshireman :mrgreen smile

11 Feb 2012

Cheeky gimp

Ha! I see what you did there! rolleyes

....although you can try changing the image resolution to something like 600, select the entire image and copy it, opening a new document in a larger size to you original piccie but at something like TV res (72), paste in your saved image, scale to fit and see how it looks- it all depends on the compression/resolution on the original

Well yeah, obviously. I'm sure they already tried that though so was hardly worth mentioning? :uhoh: :roll: bolt

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N x x x ;)

12 Feb 2012

Thank for your answers but i 've tried just about everything and nothing works, only one answer i guess,take another pic xxx
I was going to suggest that, take a load more photos, have fun doing them lol