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Photography help needed!

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Hi, I'm putting together a photo-book, for a fund raiser. The photos are donated by friends and were e-mailed to me. I can't seem to figure out how to get the jpegs to get big enough that the photo can be seen without it becoming a blurry, pixalated mess! Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Any and all help would be much appreciated.
 
The key is to start out with large enough images...that way, any resizing will be reductions. Trying to make pics bigger just makes a mess of them. Maybe somebody with more experience will have some tips, but I was once contacted to submit some shots for publication. (Unfortunately, I had started with a small image size, and reduced them for posting online.) The tip I was given was to always take pics at the largest size the camera offers, just in case I get a pic I want to publish/print.
 
Sad and simple, reducing the size is a lot easier than enlarging. If they are friends that donated the pictures, contact them and see if they can send you the original file. (if they have it) Most people at some point resize them for online purposes, maybe they didn't think of it. (Useless, obviously, for print purposes) That certainly would be the easiest solution!

There is another possibility if that is all just not an option, but it still may not work. You can enlarge an image within reason. Generally if you enlarge the image in small increments at a time it tends to hold the quality better. (Rather than enlarging in one step) Usually this is used on images that are already a decent size to start with and have something to work with, but it may be something to try if you run into a wall.
 
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