: What can be done to increase a 72dpi quality icon for high quality impression? I have a 300dpi file for high quality impression and I want to use a web icon (from a free license icon deposit)

@Harper654

The quality of the final output depends completely on the amount of original pixels. You may be able to make it look a tiny bit better, but as Rad said, there's no way to add pixels that weren't there in the original.

An icon image 200x200 pixels can look okay on a monitor at 72 dpi, but printing requires minimum 150 to 300 dpi, or higher. So a small image will be blurry, or pixelated when printed, unless you print it really tiny.

If you need to print it larger, you can try bringing the icon into Illustrator and convert to a vector image using image trace, or just recreate it. Then it will print higher quality, because now it's a vector.

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