How Do I blow Up A Picture To Print Without It Being Distorted?

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I'm not sure if I posted this before.If I did,please accept my apologies.

I was wondering if any one could tell me how to enlarge pics without it causing the finished pic to be distorted when I go to print it.

I have a HP "All-In-One" printer if that's any help.

Thank you for taking the time to view this.It is very much appreciated.

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Normally you can't enlarge anything without some distortion. You can shrink images to a certain amount until the pixels can't match up and render the image correctly, but you can't enlarge without it playing up.

How ever if you've got a Mac, or you know someone who has, and that Mac has Photoshop, that's a good program to try because the mac is essentially built for graphical generation, and it should allow you to enlarge a photo/image with causing the least distortion possible.
It really depends on how much large you want to make it. Images that are large to begin with and have a huge resolution; such as a photo, could be enlarged by another 30-50% larger and maintain themselves without causing much trouble. After that, stretch marks, off balanced colour and speckles will start to become easily detectable, in some cases, sharpening a darker image, or blurring can work. Fiddle with some copies of the image you want if you can and see what happens.
Otherwise, you can take images and photos to a place where they print them, and they can enlarge it for you, generally with the best quality imagery and technology to maintain quality. I would suggest this if you want to make the image you want to a large scale.

Remember: The resolution of the image mean a lot!
 
Hell Scyth said:
Normally you can't enlarge anything without some distortion. You can shrink images to a certain amount until the pixels can't match up and render the image correctly, but you can't enlarge without it playing up.

How ever if you've got a Mac, or you know someone who has, and that Mac has Photoshop, that's a good program to try because the mac is essentially built for graphical generation, and it should allow you to enlarge a photo/image with causing the least distortion possible.
It really depends on how much large you want to make it. Images that are large to begin with and have a huge resolution; such as a photo, could be enlarged by another 30-50% larger and maintain themselves without causing much trouble. After that, stretch marks, off balanced colour and speckles will start to become easily detectable, in some cases, sharpening a darker image, or blurring can work. Fiddle with some copies of the image you want if you can and see what happens.
Otherwise, you can take images and photos to a place where they print them, and they can enlarge it for you, generally with the best quality imagery and technology to maintain quality. I would suggest this if you want to make the image you want to a large scale.

Remember: The resolution of the image mean a lot!
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Thanks Mate!
I truly appreciate your help.thank you.
 
Hell Scyth said:
How ever if you've got a Mac, or you know someone who has, and that Mac has Photoshop
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So Photoshop on a machine running Windows won't suffice? Photoshop is identical for both platforms. If he wanted to use something that's free, and available for all platforms, he can try The GIMP or the GIMPshop modification to do a lot of the more common features of Photoshop.

Hell Scyth said:
because the mac is essentially built for graphical generation, and it should allow you to enlarge a photo/image with causing the least distortion possible.
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No. Photoshop runs the same on both platforms, as mentioned previously, however most Windows-based machines cost far less. To be honest with some of the plugins I've installed into Photoshop on my, gasp, Windows-based machine, it'll enlarge an image exponentially better than any Mac running standard Photoshop could.

Hell Scyth said:
It really depends on how much large you want to make it. Images that are large to begin with and have a huge resolution; such as a photo, could be enlarged by another 30-50% larger and maintain themselves without causing much trouble. After that, stretch marks, off balanced colour and speckles will start to become easily detectable, in some cases, sharpening a darker image, or blurring can work. Fiddle with some copies of the image you want if you can and see what happens.
Otherwise, you can take images and photos to a place where they print them, and they can enlarge it for you, generally with the best quality imagery and technology to maintain quality. I would suggest this if you want to make the image you want to a large scale.

Remember: The resolution of the image mean a lot!
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Truth, all of it. Resolution is everything when you're trying to enlarge a photo. You can shrink an image down as much as you want but there's no way to enlarge an image, no matter how small an enlargement, without losing quality. You can't add data to an image, all you can do is interpolate and hope that the random pixels you add blend properly and don't look terrible.
 
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