How do you enlarge a pic without makeing it blurry

[Karon]

Ive tried to enlarge some pic's of Ko but they are always blurry, i use photobucket to store and enlarge them, but even if they are clear when smaller they always appear blurred/out of focus when i enlarge them, am i doing something wrong?

[Roxy1]

Well- you may not be able to enlarge without getting blurry or pixelating. The resolution that the pic was taken in is what the prob is.

The higher the resolution, the more you can enlarge and still look good.

So - try taking some with a higher resolution.

Then they will still have to be downsized to load to the gallery.

[Andy]

What is the original size of the image and what size were you trying to increase it to ??

[tazdevil]

You need to get the sizes on your digi camera right (case of playing around with it i.e. 480x640 size. Also, don't be tempted to zoom in to him via "Digital Zoom" as this will make the pic even more blocky/pixely. You need a camera with a large amount of "Optical Zoom". This give your pic a truer view without going pixely and losing it's quality. Basically the better the "Optical Zoom", the better the quality of the pic. More "Digital Zoom", the crappier the quality of the pic taken. I'm probably speaking Chinese to you, but if you've got a 5 megapixel+ camera with a 14x Digital Zoom & 10x Optical Zoom, switch to "Optical" when you want a close up shot without the blockiness. You should get quality where you can count the hairs on his back! Hope this helps??

Ian & The Ingleby Krew