is too small for her? Or the only size she can bring up is the tiny one you posted earlier in this thread?
Posted on 12/18/2010 3:06:14 PM PST by leapfrog0202
Sorry to post a vanity, but I am looking for some technical help having to do with photos.
A good friend lost her only photos of her son and managed to pull a few off of Classmates.com, but sadly, they are that tiny thumbnail size. (Her ex has custody of the boy, she the girl & he hasn't allowed him to visit in 2 years so the photos mean a lot to her)
I've tried basic stuff to enlarge the photos for her, but of course the larger they get, the blurrier they get. She knows less than I do about stuff like this so I'm appealing to the folks that seem to know something about everything ~ FReepers!
If anyone can help, please let me know. Whether it's a program I can download or whatever, I'm up for it. I just want to help her as she's really missing her son. Thanks.
I was able to download the image pillut48 put up, and ran it through Photoshop 7, and increased the pixel count from 180 to 400/inch. Then printed it to a PDF.
The original photo was 450x339 pixels, the result was 1000x749, file sizes 47 & 342KB respectively. The PDFs are 25 & 56kb. I can email them all to her, or to you, if you’ll send me FReepmail with an address.
Old Student
You might try this, if you have access to a color printer (inkjet or laser) or grayscale with a regular inkjet printer:
>>Load the image (thumbnail) in a graphics program. I use IrfanView which is a freeware program.
>>Select the ‘print’ command. An adjustments window will pop up. Play around with the various settings until the ‘preview’ is a good size. Then print it.
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Typically, even a regular computer image (gif, jpg, etc.) is relatively small (about the size of a postage stamp). The printer driver settings may be able to resize the printable image without causing too much distortion.
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If you can get good prints, then you can rescan them to recreate computer images.
Thank you - great idea!
Again, thank you to everyone that replied. I appreciate your help, opinions and the time you took. I knew I could count on FReepers ~ I know we’ve got some folks with the biggest hearts I’ve ever experienced and brains that are similarly sized!
WOW! Thanks - I had no idea it was that easy!
You cannot know how stupid I feel. Thanks for the lesson in Classmates! :-)
Lost them how? Digital photos? Lost them from a computer?
PC Inspector can recover these sorts of things from digital media and it’s freeware. Works great.
http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?language=1
I got a few more from the site, I’ll send it through FReepmail if you want to adjust those as well and then forward them on.
Be my guest! I’ve had to get a lot of help over the past couple of years, it’s nice to be the one helping for a change!
Old Student
Don’t feel stupid, I couldn’t get to them either. They wanted me to register, and I’m not up for that!
Pillut48 made it easy for me, too!
thank you Ouderkirk - will keep that bookmarked for the future. No, she lost them when her computer was lost - there was a fire....
Funny, she always says if she didn’t have bad luck she wouldn’t have any, but things are actually going pretty okay for her now :-)
Merry Christmas everyone and thanks again!
If the disk will spin, you can attatch it to another computer and inspector will recover the images. If the electronics are fried there are way to get new electronics attached to the drive, and be good enough to recover valuable files. These sorts of things are best done by a professional, but the cost is not as bad as one might think.
Good luck to her and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Aw, shucks, I had a membership there a few years ago when I helped with my high school, alma mater’s 25th reunion. I didn’t renew the membership and thought it had lapsed, but apparently my stuff transfered to a basic free account because it’s still there! I didn’t have any trouble accessing the pictures. There was only 4 of that boy, some of a girl and woman and one landscape? She only wants the ones with the boy, is that right?
Don’t feel stupid, when I first signed up there several years ago I didn’t know that you could click on the thumbnail and THEN scroll down the page to where the larger picture would show up! I kept deleting and reloading the pictures until I finally figured it out, LOL. ;-)
Don’t feel stupid, when I first signed up there several years ago I didn’t know that you could click on the thumbnail and THEN scroll down the page to where the larger picture would show up! I kept deleting and reloading the pictures until I finally figured it out, LOL. ;-)
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