I wanted to share this tip with you....
Now I discovered a rather useful tip for up-sizing photos for poster printing.
Up until a few months ago any photo scaling I did was left to be resampled by PS. This isn’t a good idea generally.
Now when providing images for use on RB they ask for BIG files so I have been having to upscale some of my shots. Some of the seasoned pros may do this the way I will describe, others may not.
I have found that doing it this way upscales your images massively without any obvious loss in quality. (Thats not to say that there is not any though)
Open your image to be upscaled and open the Image size Dialog box from the Image menu in PS.
Select “Percentage” in the document sizes drop down menus and enter the amount you wish to upscale – I usually use 200%
Then enter 360 pixels/inch as your resolution.
Check the RESAMPLE box and select the BICUBIC SHARPER option (Note this is recommended for down-sampling your images in PS – but just trust me)
Click ok and your image is resampled.
Take a good look at 100% zoom and be amazed at the quality. It really doesn’t lose much in the resampling.
Let me know what you think people :D
Torfinn Johann...
You absolutely right. Have tried the same thing, and it seems to work well. Regards, Torfinn.
Edwin Wood
Good tip, I will have to try this.
Carlo Cesar Ro...
Thanks Alan!
Robert Elliott
Thanks Alan, beauty. !!
Sharon Bishop
have just found this…thanks Alan..am going to fav right now
freejay
A better way is to use bicubic smother and type in 110%, the result is minimal loss…....i created a simple action/shortcut to save time. as you need to press it a few times to get your required size.
Deri Dority
Thanks for the tip Alan. I have been using OnOnes Genuine Fractals to upsize, I will be interested to see how this compares. I also love the idea of creating an action for this. It is too bad we don’t have an avenue to share actions.
Cheri Bouvier
Thanks, great tip!
Deborah H. Benoit
Thank you so much Alan.
zooreka
An old tip this but always very useful indeed…. particularly for print. The 300 px resolution though is suited to print as opposed to the monitor.
Some people want huge images … If I may add this…
I use Genuine Fractals PrintPro which gives superb pixel for pixel resampling – up to 400% the size of the original.
Then using the method you describe here you can upscale the result at 300px (+ 10%) for every 100% to 400%
In other words – using printPro plus this technique you can blow up by 800%
400% in Print pro and 400% in Photoshop using Bicubic sharpening @
360px for 200%
390% for 300%
420% for 400%
I think I poosted a further tip for sharpening an image
Copy the original to a new layer (Ctrl + J)
Apply Filters > Other > HighPass with a value of bewween 5 and 10 to the top layer then change the layer mode to one of the following: Soft Light, Hard Light or Vivir light and then drop the layer opacity to around 50% or so.
Thats for posting this tip – always very Valuable!
talindsey
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE!!!!!!!!!!
Anne Hale
I do as Freejay mentions “bicubic smoother and type in 110%”, and it works wonderfully.
WendyJC
sounds great!
will try this after work today …