About pixilation.
 

Ok, so here is what I do when I have a photo blown up. I use Shutter fly by the way. I always take pictures in RAW mode and turn them into jpegs for viewing. I use Photoshop and turn the original pixels from 2272x1704 which will produce an enlargement of 12.622 x9.167 inches. To 6500x4875 which will produce an enlargement of 36.111x 27.083. I get the biggest size that Shutter fly has which is 20x30. I notice no pixilation what so ever in my pictures. Is this making the picture more detailed or am I just imagining this. The pictures turn out great when I do this, so I guess no harm is done.

Re: About pixilation.
 

Well, look at it this way...you can't make something from nothing. You can tell the program to increase the numbers - it then looks at the pixels and tries to reproduce them. Those pixels are not part of the original image.

Your images may look good to you, the naked eye, as a print, but the quality definitely suffers when you ask a photo program to make pixels that are not there.

If this could be done effectively then camera makers wouldn't have to keep making cameras with more and more pixels...they could just use 1 megapixel....or half that and then let software make more...from nothing.

The only program I have seen that can does this effectively up to a point is Quantum Mechanics.

What it comes down to is that if you are happy with the final product that is all that matters.

lara

Re: About pixilation.
 

Yeah... if you're happy with it, no need to change, really...

There are some programs out there you can use to blow your pic up that might even make you more happy, though... check em out some rainy day.