now nobody likes a low res image so how
can we convert it into a high resolution
image and get rid of that pixelated look
well that's exactly what we're going to
talk about in this tutorial
hello friends my name is brendan from
bewoldcreative.com and previously on
this channel i talked about three really
easy ways to resize
images in photoshop and a bunch of you
guys had told me that
okay we understand how to make our
photos bigger but how can we make a low
resolution photo become a high
resolution photo because no matter how
much scaling you do even if you're using
a smart object
it's only going to maintain the original
image resolution that you started with
so when you have a photo like we have
here that's pixelated and just doesn't
look very good
we need to do some different adjustments
to fix this problem so let's hop into
photoshop and talk about exactly what
they are
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now before we do anything we need to go
and make sure that something is enabled
within our preferences so going up to
photoshop
down here to preferences and then down
here to technology previews
within this panel here we want to make
sure that enable preserve details 2.0
is checked off this is going to be
helpful for us later on when we go and
rescale our image
with that checked off we'll click ok now
let's go and
increase the resolution of this photo by
going up to image and down here to
image size what this will do is allows
us to control the resolution
of this particular image now in this
image size panel the first thing you
want to make sure of is that your
dimensions are set to pixels
so then you're not accidentally looking
at centimeters or inches or something
that's totally different so make sure
pixels are set for your dimensions in
all of these settings now what we want
to do is increase this resolution until
the longest edge of our image is at
least
3000 pixels so in this case our longest
edge is the height
since it's a vertical photo so to start
things off
i'll go to my resolution and set this to
300 and see where that gets me
so since the height is only 2 000 let's
increase it a little bit more let's try
500.
that puts me just over 3000 making it a
good resolution for this particular
image now what increasing the resolution
does is essentially gives
the photo more room to display the
information so all of those pixels
end up getting broken up into smaller
pixels making
the photo look a little bit more smooth
and less low res than what we had before
now with all that done make sure that
the resample option is checked off and
we're going to want to
select this preserve details 2.0 now if
you didn't go and enable
this setting earlier then you will not
see it here so that's why it's important
to do so
so if you skipped out on that step make
sure to go back and do that before you
continue on so
preserve detail 2.0 and now let's go and
zoom out just a little bit to see what's
going on here
so already just looking at her eyes here
it's already such a big difference than
what we had before
if i go back to the 72 resolution that
we started with
zoom in all the way to our eyes you can
see how pixelated and not very nice that
was
going back to the 500 resolution and we
now have a
much cleaner looking image than what we
started with now as for the
reduced noise slider if we bring this
down that's going to make our photo look
a little
bit more sharp and not as smooth but if
i go all the way up it's going to almost
look
too smooth and not realistic so you've
got to find some kind of balance in this
case
i'll leave it probably around 50 just
because i still get a little bit of
noise in there that makes textures look
realistic while smoothing things out so
the image still looks pretty good now
with all this done
just click ok to commit to those changes
now your photo is going to be super
zoomed in because you just
increase the resolution and the size of
your entire photo
but zooming out we now have a much
better resolution image if i go and
check out the details up close you can
see how her face is no longer pixelated
like it was before now at this point you
might be happy with the adjustments that
you've done so far
but there's one last thing that you can
do to apply a final sharpening effect to
the entire photo
and that's with a high pass filter so
zooming out here i'm going to first
duplicate this image layer so clicking
on that layer pressing command or
control j to duplicate it
making sure that duplicated layer is
selected we'll go up here to filter
down here to other and then high pass as
for the radius you want to make sure
that you set it to an amount that you
can see a fair bit of details throughout
the image
usually you wouldn't apply this strong
of a high pass filter onto a photo
but since this image is already a little
bit blurry we can get away
with a higher radius value so something
like this is okay for this image and
i'll click ok
now obviously our photo is gray so we
want to get rid of that but
still keep the sharpening adjustment
that we just created so with that high
pass layer selected we'll change the
layer blending mode from normal
down here to overlay now what that's
going to do is apply that sharpening
onto our photo while getting rid of all
that gray now if i zoom in
you can see how things look a little bit
sharper turning that layer on and off
you can see the big difference that that
makes now in this case it seems to be a
little bit too strong so we can just
refine that by going to the fill
option and then dragging down like so
until you're happy with the amount
so in this case 40 seems like a good
number for me
so turning that on and off you can see
how it just makes things pop a little
bit more
than what they did before so let's go
and compare the before and after and
bring in our original
lo-res photo and compare it to this new
image with all of our adjustments made
so as you can see i've brought in my
original low res photo
into photoshop here and that's what
we're looking at right now but if i go
and turn that layer off
look at how much better our image looks
this is the loraz
and now the high res low res low-res
high-res you start to get the idea
so essentially what we've done is taken
all of that pixelated area
and then made the image larger with a
higher resolution so that those pixels
are then broken up into smaller areas
making them
less noticeable in the photo then adding
a high pass filter into the mix we're
able to sharpen some of those details
and bring them to life so that they
don't look too flat
and unrealistic so now with all those
adjustments you're left with a high-res
photo
from a low-res image all done with
photoshop
now that you know how to convert a
low-res photo into a high-res photo you
might want to scale your images into a
larger canvas and that's exactly what i
talked about in this other video that
you can find up in the corner
right now anyways guys that's all i have
for you for today again my name is
brandon from bewildcreative.com and i'll
catch you back here next time for
another
new tutorial see you then
