When importing from external hard drive, photos appear as thumbnail size. How do you edit. Working on imac- snow leopard

I have photos on an external hard drive. When I try to import them to iphotos they appear as a thumbnail (?), small in size. How is the photo restored to its original image. If I try to print, it comes out pixelated. I have many photos on hard drive and would like to restore to original size. Using Leopard OS

and the only time I see the pixellation problem is when the original photo's file size is small.
What did you expect? Of course if the file size is small it won't print well. There isn't enough data to create a reasonable quality print.
Web Photos are - typically - very heavily compressed to speed up downloading. I've seen Facebook photos - for instance - lose 90% of their file size after being "processed". There is no way that a 20kb file is going to print well at any size greater than a postage stamp.
So, basically, the problem you have is the photos you are importing, I'm afriad.
Regards
TD

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