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and it is rare to get something good for nothing... I believe you are talking about enlarging an image, also known as up-sampling. The basic techniques when up-sampling without pixelating include (Bi)Linear, (Bi)cubic and Lanczos. All thre are supported by gimp. They work by curve fitting the points in the vicinity, and the result is a blurry, larger version of the initial image. There is also the likelyhood of colour bleeding/smearing as a sharp transition between two colours will get replaced by pixels of a averaged colours. You mentioned commercial products (like genuine fractals?) that reconstruct "fake" details to give the appearance of sharpness. There is a stand-alone freeware application I know of: http://logicnet.dk/Analyzer/ that does upsampling using a number of additional algorithms, like Wiener 4, Wiener 6, Sinc, XinLi, and Fractal 5 - XinLi which all can give decent results depending on the source image. There is a demo of a product called smartedge here: http://audio.rightmark.org/lukin/graphics/resampling.htm and another commercial product Enlarger Pro http://www.beardedfrog.com/download.htm An easy, do it yourself method is step enlarging with smoothing and edge enhancement each step, but again, it really depends on the source image(s) -Rob A>