From: "Carol Brown" <carolstree@btinternet.com> > How can I enlarge saved images on Ancestry please. > > Thanks, Carol < You need two things 1) a graphics program and there are lots of them around; 2) to acquire some knowledge and skill in manipulating images. You don't say what sort of images you are talking about. Are they census images, BMD certificates, newspaper reports, photos, or what? I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, which is the cut-down version of Photoshop but quite adequate for my needs and much cheaper. The full version is for professional graphics artists and expensive. I do a bit of desktop publishing in a modest way and find Photoshop Elements perfectly adequate If you check out the internet you should find there are a number of graphics programs around that are free to download. I am sure other listers will have a few suggestions. If there is a manual that comes with it, then I suggest you acquaint yourself with the basics and experiment - it's the only way! You need to learn something about file sizes in relation to resolution and how to achieve a balance between the two. If you enlarge an image too much, then it may become fuzzy and unreadable or the file will be too large and take up more space on your computer than you want. It's a question of experimenting, as I say, with hands-on experience. With a half-decent program you can enhance images until you get them as you want them, i.e. lightening, darkening, sharpening, colour correction, red eye fix, etc. Photoshop Elements comes with a facility for auto-fixing, so you don't have to be too expert because the program does it for you automatically and if you don't like the result you can simply undo it. You can play about with all kinds of effects too. Photoshop Elements costs £56.49 for version 11 from Amazon, which I think is the latest, but you can put it on more than one computer, so maybe you can find someone to share it with. It's available for PCs and Macs. However, shop around. As I said earlier, if you don't want to splash out on a program like Photoshop Elements there are downloadable free programs around that may be quite adequate for what you need. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE