Photo Problem

[rodgy-dodge]

Hi all, wondered if anyone can help me with a photo problem. It's a friend of ours big birthday in June and we're thinking of making T-shirts with her on them, she has a particular party piece she's known for when out biking and it was caught on mobile camera the other week! we'd like to use the image on the t-shirts but when I try to zoom in and crop it looses all definition and the pixels are very blocky. I have photoshop 7 if anyone would have any helpful suggestions.
cheers me dears x

 

[ian turner]

Try Perfect Resize 7.

 

[rusky]

I think you should post the pic here so we can advise you on the best way to do this

 

[beanzontoast]

You know this but worth restating - always work on a copy of the original image.

IME, if the image is pixellating when you enlarge it, it probably wasn't very high resolution to start with. You can resample / upsample the image to a higher resolution but realistically you can't create actual new detail where the camera didn't capture it in the first place so a softer, less detailed image will result. On a print the size of a t-shirt, you may lose so much detail that the person even becomes hard to recognise!

You could just try blurring the image slightly - this will remove some of the 'blockiness' but again at the expense of detail. As long as you're working on a copy, you can experiment a little.

 

[rodgy-dodge]

OOOOO thats more than my lifes worth just yet I'm sure you'll get to see the end result once I've mastered it

I think you should post the pic here so we can advise you on the best way to do this

 

[rodgy-dodge]

I've thought of just drawing from it and making a cartoon copy if I can't get the picture clear enough. Not sure what phone it was taken on, Just wished they'd zoomed in at the time of taking it!

You know this but worth restating - always work on a copy of the original image.

IME, if the image is pixellating when you enlarge it, it probably wasn't very high resolution to start with. You can resample / upsample the image to a higher resolution but realistically you can't create actual new detail where the camera didn't capture it in the first place so a softer, less detailed image will result. On a print the size of a t-shirt, you may lose so much detail that the person even becomes hard to recognise!

You could just try blurring the image slightly - this will remove some of the 'blockiness' but again at the expense of detail. As long as you're working on a copy, you can experiment a little.