Increase file size?

[Canonball]

I have entered a major photo contest and have made it past the first round with my of my images,my problem is that should my image proceed into a further round i will need to supply the image in it's original size which i have deleted from all my drives and folders,i actually entered 3 images and have backups of the others but the 1 that got through mysteriously vanished and no backups,so is there a way to increase the size from 60kb to say 4MB jpeg without to much distortion,many thanks.

[private]

I believe if you duplicate the layer and then flatten it it will increase your file size...I think...

[Trader]

If you duplicate a layer and not make any changes, when you flatten it your end result file size is going to be the same because the flattening just merges the two layers into one the same size as the original.

I think your only hope here is to create a new document that is larger than your current image. Open both files in Photoshop and drag the layer of your current small file into the larger new file and expand it to fit. See if there is enough detail in the small file to not look degraded in the new file.

[wulf]

Original size will mean original resolution - for example, if you have so far been judged on an 800px wide image you will now need to provide the 3000px wide image that came from your camera. The file size in KB is irrelevant; they will be talking about the file size in pixels.

If you don't have that, then I suspect you are out of the race. A 60KB JPEG image isn't going to be very large and is unlikely to blow up in size much without significant degrading.

Wulf

[LoveDSLR]

Have you try undelete/file recovery to see is the original image still around?