Enlarging and Enhancing Heirloom Photos

The original image was a small print, roughly 1” wide by 1.5” tall. The client wished to enlarge the image to at least 8” wide by 10” tall. While most editing tools will allow for such enlargements, it is rare to be able to recover the detail found in the original image. Enlarging typically degrades an image. In the examples below, the original image on the left was enlarged to roughly 8” x 10” in the middle view. The image on the right is the result of professional editing and enhancement to emulate the original photograph at a significantly larger scale.

NOTE: Click on the images below for a larger view.

NOTE: Click on the left image for a larger view, then use the scroll arrow on the right side to scroll through the progressive edits.