enlarge images without loosing the quality?

[Tigger]

Does anyone know how to enlarge images without loosing the quality?

 

[Loget]

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...-images-without-loosing-quality-or-pixelated/

 

[Tigger]

Thank you Loget, I've looked at that article which is kinda old but a good way, however I heard that there is a program or a tool that can do this efficiently but I am not sure...

 

[JmZ]

You can't do it, it'll always be pixelated slightly.
Reason being, when you enlarge it, there are new empty pixels. All the enlarging apps do is fill them in with "guesses" of what they should look like.

 

[Elio]

only vectors can be enlarged without losing quality so dont bother looking for an app

 

[Mac]

There is an app, cant remember the name tho...

 

[zes]

Well I know a plugin for photoshop,corel etc...
It's called FixerLabs
You can save most of quality,but there is no way to enlarge the image and keep the same pixel quality.

http://rapidshare.com/files/237758142/FixerLabs.FixerBundle.v1.7.0R7-YAG.rar

Here you go :P

 

[Jaim3x]

thanks zes =)

 

[yais]

there is no real way to guarantee no quality loss when enlarging a bitmapped image. like eliteelio said, only vectors can be enlarged without any quality reduction as they contain information about the image instead of pixels.

 

[Mr Happy]

Ya, you won't find one because it's impossible. You can make an image bigger but this doesn't increase the quality only the size. As other's said it fills in the missing pixels with ones which it thinks appropriate. This leads to a larger more blurred image rather than a large pixel image. Their are hundreds of programs that does this. Photoshop itself will make it larger and reduce the pixel look by making it more blurry. You'll never get a sharp in focus image doing this.

Only vector images like you get with indesign, AutoCAD or other similar programs can be enlarged.