Photo Trouble

cumulusjames

cumulusjames

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I have only used windows photo gallery to view pictures. When I zoom in the picture becomes pixelated and degrades. So I bought a new beter monitor and a new graphics card thinking this would solve the problem. But it has not.

Surely there is a way to zoom into pictures and keep most the quality? I have seen them do it on CSI?
 
I'm gobsmacked. Utterly gobsmacked.

Surely this has to be a wind up. It's like saying "I had a bottle of water, but I wanted more water, so I bought a bigger bottle, but the water is still the same amount. I thought a bigger bottle would increase the amount of water I had."
 
vaseline on the screen, smooths out the pixels nicely.

Hint: all images look pixelated when zoomed in on, take the photo/image at a higher resolution - much higher than your monitor's resolution and it'll allow you to zoom in a bit and still keep the quality.
 
What you aren't told is all cameras in CSI, regardless of the device they are in, can take pictures with billions of pixels. This allows the CSI teams to read the name on the business card being handed to their suspect in the reflection of a glass of wine in a dark corner of a restaurant across the street at night.
 
SiriusB said:
What you aren't told is all cameras in CSI, regardless of the device they are in, can take pictures with billions of pixels. This allows the CSI teams to read the name on the business card being handed to their suspect in the reflection of a glass of wine in a dark corner of a restaurant across the street at night.
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But what you are told is that csi isn't real ;)
 
I remember when the film Bladerunner first came out and Harrison Ford was looking at a photograph on a machine which allowed him to infinitely zoom (so it seemed) to then see, from a reflection in a mirror, a lady presumed dead lying in a bath.
I was pretty amazed at the time and wondered if we would ever be in such an age, but then again I haven't watched CSI.
 
just incase the OP really is serious

photos only contain a certain number of pixels.. viewing them at 100% size you will see the photo perfectly

when you zoon in more than 100% you are trying to look at information that isnt there so the more you zoon in , the more it will become blurry and pixelated

to solve the problem you need to take photos with a camera that uses more pixles ( a 20MP camera will let you zoom in much more than a 5MP camera)
 
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The Picture and Fax viewer built into Windows after XP is rubbish, the old version used to interpolate and smooth out pixels so you could zoom in past the native resolution of the image and it would still look ok without any pixelation. Not so these days as it no longer does this. If you install something like Google Picasa and use the viewer built in to that you'll get much better results. You cannot however expect image enhancement on the level often shown on tv as that just doesn't happen.

Quite why everybody felt the need to be hats about it I don't know.
 
Dano said:
The Picture and Fax viewer built into Windows after XP is rubbish, the old version used to interpolate and smooth out pixels so you could zoom in past the native resolution of the image and it would still look ok without any pixelation. Not so these days as it no longer does this. If you install something like Google Picasa and use the viewer built in to that you'll get much better results. You cannot however expect image enhancement on the level often shown on tv as that just doesn't happen.

Quite why everybody felt the need to be hats about it I don't know.
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Tha was helpful. I do not know why everyone had to be so mean. Everyone on here seems to assume we are all tech geeks who know about every aspect of computers and technology. Were that the case we would not need a forum.

I asked the question because I did not know the answer to it. If you want to respond then why not do so posatively?

I think it says a LOT about human nature that when someone does not know something you take the P*** rather than help them out.
 
I'm going to assume you're trolling. If not, then...

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