To any and everyone out there. I once worked with a guy who claimed he could increase the dimensions of a digital image without decreasing its resolution. Basically, we had files that were not good enough to make nice prints out of and he came up with what he thought could be a solution. Out of pretend curiosity I asked “how would you do this?” He then proceeded to show me that all he does is “leave the resolution alone and increase the dimensions in Photoshop under image size.” If you have a digital file that is a certain size at a certain resolution, never try to “just make the dimensions bigger while leaving the resolution the same.” If the pixels are “not there” in the original image, don’t think you can just create them. The result will be the same every time… a pixellated, crappy-looking image. Image file below is 72 pixels per inch (web resolution) at 150 pixels wide. Above is what happens when you try to turn that image into a 540-pixel-wide photo.

The larger photo above was created from this tiny image.