ideefix: i hooked up my vcr to my tv and tivo (i have directv), because when i got directv i knew that i'd want to move some recordings--including a lot of movies on tv--off the tivo to eventually watch on a tv in a different room (i have tivo only on one tv, directv on 2 tvs.) and to make sure i didn't come close to the storage limit on tivo! i figured i would need special equipment. maybe it's not worth it anyway! i'd have to go through maybe 40 videotapes of "Simply Quilts"--each tape holding 6 shows!

I think that using fresh fruit is not a good idea. The fruit contains water and this will go bad; along the same idea of putting fresh garlic in olive oil.

Yep, what Linda C said. As they say, garbage in garbage out. There is some really expensive software out there that "might" do the job. Other than that, the ONLY way to do it is incrementally: You most likely have a 72 dpi jpg from the web, let's say pixel dimensions are 163W x 139H or 2.264 inches x 1.931 inches. First, research the web again to see if you can find the same image with larger pixel dimensions. If that's a no go or if you find something but it still needs to be larger and you are using Photoshop follow these directions: Go to Image>Image Size Under the area labeled "Document Size" in the pop up window change the "Width" and "Height" to "percent" instead of "inches". Change the percentage from 100 to 110 in each direction. DO NOT CHANGE THE RESOLUTION YET. Be sure to have the "Constrain Proportions" and "Resample Image" radio boxes checked. The latter option should be set at "Bicubic". Repeat the 110% upsizing until just before the image takes on a nasty pixelated haze and looks distorted. After doing this 5 times in our example, the pixel dimensions will be 263W x 224H or 3.653 inches x 3.111 inches at 72 dpi. If you wish to use the image for printing purposes, go to Image>Image Size. At the bottom of the pop up window, uncheck the "Resample Image" radio button and change the "Resolution" field to 300 pixels per inch. When you do this, the width and height inches field will change automatically. The size related in those fields are the highest you can go without the nasty pixelated distortion for printing purposes. You can try some of the blurring filters, but that really won't get you where you want to go. HTH

Thanks everyone! I figured it out, with everyone's help and I guess I did have my privacy setting to no PMs. Just fixed that. When we first moved to Houzz I was getting hundreds of emails from here notifying me when someone posted on a thread I just only read. So I went in and said NO to every setting, lol! Guess some settings are necessary. Thanks again. :)