Is there a way to increase the size of a picture and make it so that it is not so pixilated? Im trying to increase the size of a pic from the web but all that happens is it gets biger but all the detail is gone. Any way to fix that? How can I make a blurry picture clear and have crisp detail?

Thanks

It boils down to the original and what the resolution of the original was.
I am a moderate user of Photoshop and don't know of a way to 'sharpen' an image. Hopefully other more experience users may know. If not you may have to re-shoot.

Hi Adam,
With low resolution photos it is difficult to increase size without compromising picture quality, One thing you could try is in the filter pulldown go to noise then use the median filter try 1 or 2 as setting. When you do scale up picture try to use a resolution of 150 or 200 before appyling filter.
Hope this helps
George

Adam:

I would echo what the others have said.

If your resolution and physical size aren't high enough, there isn't going to be much you can do. Most internet images are only 72dpi. A print quality image is 300dpi.

You can always go into photoshop and force the image to a higher resolution, but you aren't really improving the detail. You're only spreading the existing pixels over a larger space.

It would be helpful if I could see the image, and also know what your intentions are with it. If you need to print it out for framing quality, you are more than likely stuck. If you only need it for a reference, there might be something that can be done.

If you care to, let me know where the image is and I would be more than happy to try and improve it for you. If I'm successful, I could explain what I did so that you could do it yourself in the future.

HTH

John

Hi- there is a program available called 'Genuine Fractal' which runs as a plug-in within photoshop.
When it's installed you have to save your jpeg or whatever as a '*.stn' format, then close and re-open the stn file and when you do so you are presented with a control panel allowing you to set the amount of enlarging, via resolution, pixel size etc.
There are complaints about quality of enlarged images, and to be fair, they are sometimes a bit indifferent, but I have used it for producing school display size images from fairly small images found on the net.
There is a review here:
http://www.designer-info.com/master.htm?http://www.designer-info.com/Photo/genuine_fractals.htm
Hope this helps
MC

You could also try Paintshop Pro- the later versions allow you to scale-up images by increasing resolution, and the results can be impressive. Hope that helps some more.
MC

I think the upcoming Photoshop CS 2 has this special feature, and only in CS2.

I don't think the other earlier Photoshops can solve this problem very well.

You're going to have to read the CS2 specs on Adobe's website.

Yeah...that's why Adobe keeps releasing upgrades and making Photoshop users buy them...it's one or two features that the newest version has that trumps all previous ones .