maximumfitness

can someone enlarge this for me please, all I have is photoshop and I get major pixelization when i try.


thanks

MsOz

The image you've posted is so badly compressed, that the jpeg artifacts make it basically impossible to enlarge. It already looks bad, and it won't get any better.

Do you have the original photo, or can you get it e-mailed to you? If so, you need to have it scanned at the highest resolution possible, then converted to a .jpeg before sending. It might take you a while to download it, but it will be worth it in the end.

Good Luck!

maximumfitness

nope, io just need that enlarged

retired_paddza

How big do you need to make it? MsOz has a point about the quality issue. If it were clear, you might get away with making it bigger, but since it's not good quality right now, it's unlikley you'll get much out of it at this point.

kiwi

Unfortunately MsOz is right Bobz,stretch those pixels it will be to hard to fix.There are PS plugins out there which will allow you to scale up images and do a pretty good job from what I can remember,do a search there a conversation in one of the forums on the subject a while back {sorry cant remember which forum}


What size are you looking to upscale to?



Stu.

retired_paddza

I beleive you're talking about "step scaling". You can basically do what those plugins do by hand if you're willing to spend the time doing it (and don't want to buy a plugin). It really depends on the final desired size and the intention of use for the image. If this is planned on being more doubled or more in size and printed for close up viewing like as a photo, then it's probably not going to happen. You might get away with some scaling though, it depends on how much.

Welles

Hi Bobzworld,

As pointed out, the artifacting in that image is horrendous. No plugin such as Genuine Fractals could perform any magic with it at all. I tried a program called Focus Magic which, in the stand alone Windows version, does a very good job with JPEG artifacting and has a feature to increase the resolution of images which is specifically designed to deal with smoothing JPEG artifacts. It couldn't do a decent job on your image at a 4X file. I actually got better results by using a series of 110% increases with Bicubic Smoother selected in the PS CS Image Size dialog. If you don't have CS, I'd be glad to send you a larger image so you can see for yourself.

Cheers!
Welles

(PSD) Sergiy

Since you post that picture here BoB, you probably would like to have it fixed, so than you could print it and have it as a memmory.
I`m not an expert with all that fixing resoultion stuff. But i have noticed, when you are printing a colorfull photo with 4x6 (350x750 will be OK) and you have a bad resolution. The color Ink will smooth the picture automaticly. Only you have to be afraid of very Dark colors on the picture. They could effect your quality. There are many of the Inks wich are Fat, soft etc... but regular will work either. So, the only think I WOULD DO, is. I would clean this picture with replacing tool, than Duplicated it, work with Contrast/Brightest, equilizer, Blurr. In the End, with the picture i come up with. I would gave it a little of Brighting, so as when you will print your picture it will have not so dark color and the picture will look just Great and ready for printing.
I hope it helps, Good Luck Buddy [righton]

maximumfitness

thanks guys i know the source is Bad, i just want to bump it up to W1000 x L464

MsOz

Bob, the only thing you can do at this point is to go to File>Automate>Fit Image, and enter 1000 and 464, and the image will be resized as it is.
Beyond that, we've all explained to you that you will not be able to do much with the image as you have it...