Scanning a high-quality photograph takes some thought, especially if you want to scan a small image and make it larger. Making a photograph larger can degrade the quality of the photograph if you scan it at low resolution, resulting in a broken image at larger sizes, an image that lacks color depth or a distorted image. Using the resolution setting on a scanner in conjunction with image scaling in an image editor allows you to enlarge small images while maintaining the integrity of the photograph. Writer Bio
