resizing a small image to a big one and keeping it loking good

[unwashed potato!]

i got a small image, 300 x 225 to be precise, and i want it resized to 684 x 219px, the trouble is donig this im loosing a lot of the quality of the picture. I know thats to be expected but is there a way to keep a little bit more of the quality as its gets really quite bad fast.

the picture is a jpg

Is there a difference between jpg and jpeg?

 

[meghatronic]

i got a small image, 300 x 225 to be precise, and i want it resized to 684 x 219px, the trouble is donig this im loosing a lot of the quality of the picture. I know thats to be expected but is there a way to keep a little bit more of the quality as its gets really quite bad fast.

the picture is a jpg

What is the picture?

A lot of modern packages have "smart resize" that 'may' help... depends entirely on the pic.

Is there a difference between jpg and jpeg?

No. Well, yes. One has an e in it, the other doesn't

.jpeg, .jpe, .jfif and .jif are all the same file format... (you can even embed jpeg data in other file formats)

 

[unwashed potato!]

tis the image, as you can already see its not the greatest of quality. I have repeated the image left and right to make it so it doesn't need to be as streched but still no good. Anyone else want to have a go at it?

A lot of modern packages have "smart resize" that 'may' help... depends entirely on the pic.

not sure what this is and how i find out if it got it?

 

[meghatronic]

Are you sure you want to go from 300 x 225 to 684 x 219px?

 

[Fourstar]

Are you sure you want to go from 300 x 225 to 684 x 219px?

Lets hope not. Would be definite slap territory for making the girl look fat

From the quality point of view there are various bits of software that will reduce artifacts seen above. No idea how effective they are. Try googling for removing jpeg artifacts

 

[toString]

I think you'll need a CSI computer to magically create detail where detail doesn't exist!