Enlarging an small image help.

FreakyShadow

Hi guys, can you help me enlarging this image without distrorting it or enlarging the pixels too much?


Thanks in advance!

danielneri

cant you just resize it in photoshop? you do have photoshop...right?

pfgannon

Try increasing the size in Photoshop 25% at a time.

I would do it myself but PS closes as soon as it opens...:(

I need to get a legal copy:)

FreakyShadow

Yes, I can resize it in PS but its quality is reduced drastically:


Is there any way to get it without the blur and a nice quality?

CannonBallGuy

Not really...
You would need to redraw it as a vector.

james.uk

you cant resize an image and hope it looks the same. cant be done.

your best bet is to redraw it as a vector or leave it alone.

martian2k4

Can't you just find another picture of luigi? Just find a bigger one?

Nuvo

No, you cannot do this with raster images.
You can do this relatively easily with vector images because they aren't done in the same way as rasters.
A raster image is a grid of pixels which have a set place and colour while a vector is drawn using math and has no set pixel grid like rasters, a vector is only really rendered when it is displayed.
Vectors don't lose their quality when resized or changed while rasters become blocky because you are resizing the pixel block, meaning more pixels need to be set to the colour of the pixel you're resizing and curves and edges which would normally appear smooth stand out more.
Using JPEG compression and resizing .jpg images can only lead to more problems sicne jpg compression is lossy, the edges become fuzzy and when resizing, it looks awfully fuzzy.
Applications like Fireworks (Adobe Macromedia) are designed to create vector graphics while Photoshop isn't specifically designed for such things as it's a photo editor.