How can I sharpen an image in Paint?

[Ilsa]

I have an image i want to transfer on to a t-shirt for a gag gift for a relative. It's small, though, and when I blow it up, the lines get ragged. I have Paint. I don't know if my laptop has any other programs to manipulate images. But I'd like to blow it up and sharpen it. Any suggestions?

[progressiveBadger]

1. Paint doesn't have any filters...

try downloading the demo of Pain Shop Pro.

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. PSP!!!

I love PSP :freak:

[GCP]

2. If you only have paint you'll have to redraw the whole thing

by tracing the blowup

[alphafemale]

4. If you have a scanner it might have come with software that will let you..

Import the image.
Then increase the resolution when you increase the size.

[Ilsa]

5. I can do that with my niece's scanner.

Thanks, everyone, for the advice. I'm trying to make more fun gifts this year.

[RC]

6. Try this.

http://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.


Some IrfanView features:

* Many supported file formats
* Multi language support
* Thumbnail/preview option
* Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
* Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
* Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
* Drag & drop support
* Fast directory view (moving through directory)
* Batch conversion (with image processing)
* Multipage TIF editing
* Email option
* Multimedia player
* Print option
* Change color depth
* Scan (batch scan) support
* Cut/crop
* IPTC editing
* Effects (Sharpen-, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
* Capturing
* Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
* Lossless JPG rotation
* Many hotkeys
* Many command line options
* Many PlugIns
* Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
* No registry changes without user action/permission!
* and many more

[Ilsa]

7. I just did that, and it worked great!

I took a 2-3 inch image and tripled it in size and sharpened it. I flipped it and it's ready to print on some transfer paper when I'm ready.

Thanks a bunch. Downloaded fast. Neat program.

[procrastinator]

8. Try Paint Shop Pro

from Jasc

Not as expensive as Photoshop, but it does quite a bit.