Making pictures bigger without losing the quality of the pic

[Dave Youell]

Basically i want to get a pic of the old school punisher logo to print of onto a sheet of A4.

With any pic that i try and find on the net the pic is too small so when i enlarge the pixels become bigger and the quality of the pic is rubbish, does anyone know

A: anywhere i can get a big pic
or
B: How to make it look sharper without going into paint and slowly colouring it in?

[The Destroyer]

As far as I know, it's not possible... making things smaller are one thing, but I think the fact that new pixels need to be created to increase the size of a picture tends to bugger it up. Stuff like Photostop and dedicated image resizing programs make a better job of it, but don't solve the problem.

Of course smaller images contain less detail anyway, and since you're effectively just blowing them up you're exposing that lack of detail...

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Irfanview :love:

[The Destroyer]

If you think Irfanview can increase image sizes without losing quality, you're clearly nuts. There's always going to be loss of quality, particularly if you're using a small image.

[Dave Youell]

yeah that's fine but right now i'm just using word to enlarge it and it looks crap, i'll try one of those other ones and see it it's any better

[JJ Moore]

it wont get better.

[Penner]

use photoshop

it won't solve the problem, but it'll look all right

[JJ Moore]

http://www.modamag.com/punisher.jpg

http://www.thepunisher.com/past_news/june_2003/Punisher-Movie-widepaper.jpg

http://www.thepunisher.com/past_news/may_2003/Punisher_Skull.jpg

[JJ Moore]

some big ones for u