Making a small image bigger

[BrandontheGreat]

Anyone on here know how to get a small image that's 6 x 6 inches to 30 x 30 inches? The main dilemma is getting the size bigger and keeping it clear when zoomed into 100%.

Is there any way to do this? What's the best way to recreate it while still keeping the nuances?

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

You contact the original creator / photographer, and ask him for the big size of the image.

Either that, or find a new image. Those are pretty much your only two choices.

Retaining quality when enlarging a picture just isn't going to happen.

 

[(O_o)]

You could try a reverse image search on it and see if you can find a larger image or the original.

 

[Tucky]

Presuming it's a rasterized image, then as above. If it's vector then it can be scaled to infinity...and beyond!

 

[Scococo]

Presuming it's a rasterized image, then as above. If it's vector then it can be scaled to infinity...and beyond!

If it's a simple enough image you can convert it to a vector using VectorMagic, then scale from there.

 

[Fatbat]

Anyone on here know how to get a small image that's 6 x 6 inches to 30 x 30 inches? The main dilemma is getting the size bigger and keeping it clear when zoomed into 100%.

Is there any way to do this? What's the best way to recreate it while still keeping the nuances?

Common OP, you've got to give us more info to work with. It's a photo I assume? Or some sort of graphic? 6 x 6 inches at 72 dpi? 300dpi? 600dpi? What's the intended purpose? You displaying on screen? Making a print? "Zoomed in to 100%" sounds like you're talking about using it on screen but you need to be clearer.

There are technologies out there to enlarge small photographic images. Also, when you're talking about billboard size photographic images, they aren't prepared at full size, full resolution, otherwise they'd be hundreds of gigabytes big. They're usually prepared at some fraction of the finished size, maybe 1/4, or 1/8. Of course all text and graphics should be vector because they don't enlarge that well.

Anyways, back in the day there was a company called Genuine Fractals that created a technology that lets you enlarge an image, using their algorithms, to maintain decent quality... up to a point. They got bought out and are now part of this product... Perfect Resize 8 - onOne Software

 

[Fatbat]

Another product for enlarging images. Blow Up - Alien Skin Software

 

[Oald1]

That depends on the image you are using, if you can turn it into vector or not. Try and check illustrator

 

[Member8200]

Re-sizing 6 x 6 inches to 30 x 30 inches image and retaining its quality isn't going to happen.
Just search for the bigger size of your image, or try and ask a graphic designer to do the job for you.

 

[dezinerguys]

As of my other colleagues posts few things need to be clear about the image, if its a raster you have to ask about the XXXL size from the original provider or buy from its original source, if its a vector file we can remade it and then get the file easily as big as you need.

 

[stevehnsn]

Try to get someone to recreate the image as an .svg file.

 

[moonbeam]

A raster image is like an image made up of tiny floor tiles. When you try to "enlarge" it, all you are doing is spacing the tiles farther apart from each other and the image software uses an interpolation method to "fill in" the spaces with additional tiles. Or another way to think of it, is like when you imprint a newspaper image on to Silly Putty, then stretch it. In either case, you're not "adding" any detail by enlarging the image, hence the blurriness/softness.

Those plugins for Photoshop which claim to help you enlarge images without them looking blurry, basically just use algorithms to detect edges in the photo and keep them sharp, giving the appearance that the overall image is sharper. It helps a little, but again, you're not adding any detail to the image.

Your best bet is to just try and obtain a higher resolution copy of the image.