Resizing Pictures....

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Ballzo

This is really not an XP-specific question, but perhaps some kind soul can
help...

Several weeks ago, I experienced a major PC crash. Scrambled the NTFS
partition on my primary drive. What a nightmare.
The drive was rendered unbootbale.

I set to work with my data recovery tools. I was able to pull significant
amounts of precious data from the drive. Propbably about 95% of what I
needed.

Digital photos I desperately tried to recover. The tools recovered alot.
Not everything but quite a bit. In data recovery, you get what you get I've
learned.

Here's my issue:

Of the photos I recovered they appear to be OK however in reality they are
only thumbnails. That's as big as the photos get.
I use ACDSee as my image viewer.

My attempts to resize the photos result in failure as the pictures become
grainy and unviewable. Quality degraded. But previewing them, they look
fine.

Am I stuck or might there be a solution to all this?

Many thanks,

B
 
Apparently, the only images you restored were
your thumbnails. I doubt that there is anything you
can do to enlarge them successfully.

It may be worth a try to open them in IrfanView
and resize them using the various filters...Just
open a image and go to...Image / Resize-Resample...
you'll see the drop window where you choose the
filters. At best you may reduce the blockiness...
don't expect too much. At a enlarged size they'll
probably be quite blurry...maybe the sharpen
option in your editing progam will help slightly.

IrfanView 3.85
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
(get the plug-ins too)

One longshot may be to print the images at
the best settings on good photo paper and
then scan them at very high resolution...1200dpi
maybe.

I hate to say it, but this is a prime example of
how important it is to have a backup of your
image collection.
 
Look for a programme called "digital image recovery' I
got it on a compilation disc with Digital Photography mag
 
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