Adobe Illustrator, maybe? But that might be a long shot.
Unfortunately you can’t make the smaller compressed thumbnails any bigger without the dithering/blurring of the pixels. Is she able to get back on classmates and click on the thumbnails? Sometimes that will take you back to a full size jpg image that can be snagged...then she can make, for example, depending on size of the image, a hard copy for a picture frame or whatever.
Got a link to the thumbnails at Classmatewhatever?
Might be helpful.
Here’s something I did once. It’s kind of a round-about solution and the result wasn’t perfect, but it might be an improvement.
First I had a professional glossy print made of the small photo. Then I took that print and scanned it at extremely high resolution, probably something like 1200 dpi. That allowed me to sort of fake in the extra detail I needed to enlarge the photo.
Unfortunately, a photo like that can’t be blown up without becoming pixelated.
Sorry, but nothing can be done.
Unless she’s been banished from the family or something, maybe there is a relative that could get her some pictures or post them to facebook or something?
Each thumb is only a few pixels high by a few pixels wide and when you try to enlarge it each pixel will be enlarged so that you will have nothing but a bigger view of each pixel.
Even the best software will try to interpolate the pixels and you will just get a photo that looks like the camera lens was smeared with Vaseline.
I was able to download the image pillut48 put up, and ran it through Photoshop 7, and increased the pixel count from 180 to 400/inch. Then printed it to a PDF.
The original photo was 450x339 pixels, the result was 1000x749, file sizes 47 & 342KB respectively. The PDFs are 25 & 56kb. I can email them all to her, or to you, if you’ll send me FReepmail with an address.
Old Student
You might try this, if you have access to a color printer (inkjet or laser) or grayscale with a regular inkjet printer:
>>Load the image (thumbnail) in a graphics program. I use IrfanView which is a freeware program.
>>Select the ‘print’ command. An adjustments window will pop up. Play around with the various settings until the ‘preview’ is a good size. Then print it.
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Typically, even a regular computer image (gif, jpg, etc.) is relatively small (about the size of a postage stamp). The printer driver settings may be able to resize the printable image without causing too much distortion.
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If you can get good prints, then you can rescan them to recreate computer images.
Lost them how? Digital photos? Lost them from a computer?
PC Inspector can recover these sorts of things from digital media and it’s freeware. Works great.
http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?language=1