Adoption Profile Help - Photo Selection

When it comes to selecting photos for your adoption profile here is a tip based on 15 years of experience in commercial printing.  Use photos that are over 500 KB in size.  Anything over 1 MB is even better.  If you’ve taken photos with your phone, email each photo to yourself and select the largest size available before sending.  If your photo is less than 500 KB it can’t be “made larger,” it’s impossible. Why? 
Think of the photo as bits of information.  When you enlarge a photo you expand the detail.  If the photo was very small to begin with, let’s say it was a photo from Facebook which will be the size of a postage stamp, actual size.  If I want to make that photo into a 3” x 5” it’s going to fall apart.  There is nothing to fill in the detail because it doesn’t exist.  That image then becomes blurry and pixilated. You’ve spent so much time writing great text, don’t do yourself a disservice by illustrating your profile with bad photos.