Can I get a useable image from a 2"X3" scanned image?

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Glen
Nov 22, 2005
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I found an old B&W image on a historical site of my great-grandfather, to my knowledge there are no other known photos of him and I’d like to enlarge it to a useable size. The image size is 161 by 264 pixels, and I’d like to be able to print off a reasonably clear copy about 5×7 size. I did a bit of googling and tried changing the image size by very small percentages at a time and using bicubic resampling, but that produced unsatisfactory results.

Short of trying to get the picture from the museum to re-scan it (not very likely), is there something else I can do?

TIA

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Jim
Nov 22, 2005
No. You don’t have enough pixels. The only solution is a rescan. Jim
"Glen" wrote in message
I found an old B&W image on a historical site of my great-grandfather, to my knowledge there are no other known photos of him and I’d like to enlarge it to a useable size. The image size is 161 by 264 pixels, and I’d like to be able to print off a reasonably clear copy about 5×7 size. I did a bit of googling and tried changing the image size by very small percentages at a time and using bicubic resampling, but that produced unsatisfactory results.

Short of trying to get the picture from the museum to re-scan it (not very likely), is there something else I can do?

TIA
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kitakits
Nov 22, 2005
It is possible to down-size an image… but to up-size an image is next to impossible due to it’s pixel details…

It would be nice if you have the actual picture with you then you would be able to rescan the image at a suitable size.

If details is of no concern, you can scale it up again using Adobe Photoshop, but details mind you is greatly sacrificed.

I would like to have a go on the picture if you don’t mind. Can you send me a copy of that photo to my e-mail at and see
what we can do with it.. ? If you don’t want then it is ok..

Anyway I hope my suggestions can help you out. If all comes to worst you can go to the next best thing and making it a wallet size photo 🙂

Anyway take care
Bryan Agoncillo
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Clay Rinehart
Nov 23, 2005
Glen wrote:
I found an old B&W image on a historical site of my great-grandfather, to my knowledge there are no other known photos of him and I’d like to enlarge it to a useable size. The image size is 161 by 264 pixels, and I’d like to be able to print off a reasonably clear copy about 5×7 size. I did a bit of googling and tried changing the image size by very small percentages at a time and using bicubic resampling, but that produced unsatisfactory results.

Short of trying to get the picture from the museum to re-scan it (not very likely), is there something else I can do?

TIA
How about going into image size and re sampling up with a higher resolution say 300, then zoom out and see how it looks then try to crop out as much as the picture as you don’t need to reduce file size.

Clay
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Kingdom
Nov 24, 2005
Glen wrote in news:IHLgf.132964$yS6.54693
@clgrps12:

The image size is 161 by 264 pixels,

At that small size there just isn’t enough information to do anything with even using something like photo zoom which is very good would still not be of much use.

Best plan is to ask the museum to scan it, offer a donatoion, might help.


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