Grainy Photos

[dtrain123]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me out here. I use images.google.com to find photos. I saved them to my hard drive and opened them up with Photoshop CS3. I resized the file to 8x10. When I printed them out with an Epson printer, the photos looks grainy. By the way I am using high qulaity glossy paper. What should I do? Thanks.

[jdp3577]

when your resizing them are you making them larger or smaller?

[dtrain123]

99% of the time I am making them larger.

[dgangel]

dont resize them, larger file sizes are always best.

[jdp3577]

usually making them larger doesnt work too well, you can resize down fine but when you try to make them bigger it really messes with the quality.

[dgangel]

yup, instead of resizing them to make them larger, try and find larger sized pictures on the internet.

[dtrain123]

what sites do you suggest I should start with?

[dgangel]

depends on who you are looking for pictures of, you can try fansites, google, altivista, dogpile,msn, yahoo, etc...