You might be have tried resizing or enlarging some image to focus on some of the best parts of the picture, but ended up blurring it. Actually, resizing usually results in the loss of quality and thus the enlarged image looks obscured and unprofessional.
Many people have doubts whether an image can be resized without losing its quality. Luckily, it can be!! In this blog, you will be shown, how to resize images to make them larger without losing quality.
Firstly, let’s address the question of why do images lose quality when they are enlarged?
Well, Bitmap is a highly used image format on the web, which is by far the most popular. All your PNG and JPEG files are Bitmap image files.
Actually, a bitmap image is usually made up of thousands of pixels. So, when you zoom in, you can actually see those pixels, which make up an image as squares.
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ABOUT PIXELS:
Each of the pixels is plotted on a fixed location on the picture, hence its named Bitmap.
Most of the image editing software enlarge or shrink these pixels to resize the given image. That is why when you actually resize an image to a size smaller than that, there is no visible loss of quality. Mainly, the reason being that those pixels become very less visible.
In the other case, when you enlarge an image, these resized pixels become much more visible which makes the image to look pixelated and blur.
SOLUTION:
Well, the solution is quite easy. you need to compensate for each enlarged pixel, so that it can match the properties of the nearest pixel. The method is popularly known as Fractal Interpolation or simply Fractals. It is known to produce a much better result when an image is actually enlarged using this technique.
The various methods to use the most common image editing software is explained below:
- Use Perfect Resize with Adobe Photoshop
Perfect Resize is actually a software that allows the user to resize their images smartly and accurately. It is usually available as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and as well as a Standalone software.
The regular version of this software costs $50 and the premium version which actually contains plugin for Adobe photoshop costs you $150.
Both of these versions are available for a free 30 days trial. If you a person who resizes images on a regular basis, then our blog recommends you to go for this amazing software. Though it is expensive, but it is the best way to resize images.
So, after you install the software, open the image file that you want to resize in Adobe Photoshop. Then, simply go to File » Automate and select the icon ‘Perfect Resize’.
This step would open the image in the ‘Perfect Size’ application. You can choose a Pre-set from the left side menu or enter the size you wish in the Document Size.
After you enter the document size, you need to go to File » Apply, to save the changes and then apply them to the file in Photoshop.
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Now you can easily export this file, wherever you want by saving it as a ‘web image’.
That’s all you need to do. Your resized image would look much better now than the normal resize.
Comparing normal resize V/S perfect resize
- Use Free Software Gimp
Gimp is basically a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. This can also be used to resize images with minimum quality loss. However, you need to know that the result will not be as good as Perfect Resize.
Here is how you can make small images larger in Gimp without losing its quality.
Firstly, Open the image you want to resize in Gimp.
Then, simply go to Image » Scale Image. Enter the dimensions you desire. Under the section ‘Quality’ choose Sinc (Lanczos3) as the Interpolation method and then click on the Scale Image button.
That’s all you need to do here.
Now, you can easily export this image for the ‘web’.
- Enlarge Images with Irfanview
Irfanview is basically a compact photo editing program which is only available for Windows based operating systems. It provides a smarter way to resize the images and enlarge them.
To do so, simply open your image in Irfanview and go to Image » Resize/Resample.
This would bring up image resize popup window.
So, Firstly, you need to enter the mage size you desire in the Set Image Size. After that, you need to select ‘Resmaple’ under the Size method.
From the drop-down menu choose Lanczos (slowest).
Lastly, you need to check the box next to ‘Apply Sharpen After Resample’.
Irfanview would thus resize the image, which you can then save to your computer now.
NOTE: I hope that you note that free tools don’t do a great job when it comes to resizing an image to make it larger actually. However, by adjusting image contrast and sharpness you can easily enlarge images and minimize the quality loss in this process.
