Does Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 support .jpg file enlargements

Question

Does Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 allow you to enlarge .jpg files?

Answer 1

Explain exactly what you mean by distorting?
If you mean that the resized image is looking 'squashed' or 'stretched' that means you are resizing in a different ratio to your original. No photo editing software will allow you to resize to a different ratio of Height/Width without distortion.
Example:
Original Image - 6 x 4, ratio 1.5:1
Resized image - 7 x 5, ratio 1.4:1 - this will be slightly distorted.
Resized image - 10 x 8, ratio 1.25:1 - this will be significantly distorted.
If this is your problem then use the crop tool, entering your desired final height/width dimensions. You will lose either some of the top/bottom or left/right depending on how you crop and whee you drag the crop mask, but the end result will not be distorted.
If you mean that you resize the image and it starts to look blurry and edges have the jaggies then there is just not enough detail in the original to support the level of enlargement you are looking for. I don't recall the resizing algorithms used in PSE4 but I don't think they were terribly sophisticated - you MIGHT get better results by performing many incremental enlargements of 10% at a time, this often gives a smoother result.
Cheers,
Neale
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