Old, low resolution pictures in iPhoto

Are there any techniques for viewing old, low resolution photos decently once their imported into iPhoto? Preview and other image viewers just open a version small enough to be clear, but in iPhoto they come out pixelated and blurry.

Hi Tom
you might find this suggestion strange (so would you peter), launch which ever editing app. you are using and click on "fill the screen". since i was using elements, it filled the screen enough not to see pixelation. i then took a picture of that image using "snapndrag" and the resulting image nearly tripled in size. at least enough to print/view.
I said that this suggestion is strange because just recently, my sister and mother went to visit her ailing uncle(mothers' brother) in california. the camera they took along had its setting from max resolution reset to the lowest by a family member. as a result, the final image turned out to be 3.5in x 2.5in. instead of 26in x 35in. so printing is out of the question and any detail in the faces is bare minimum. so i took a chance and used the "snapndrag" app. and the result was a large enough image that i can see and print.

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