Thanks for the video, though not quite what I was hoping for given the title. How does one increase an image *beyond* 100% without losing quality? I think that's what most people who click this video are probably interested in. Cheers.
you are exactly right. the problem is that beyond 100%... quality loss is unavoidable. there's a grey area, maybe between 100-125% that the image is still acceptable (depending on the format/publication). HOWEVER, there are some techniques to help cover up some of the quality loss (surface blur, unsharp mask, etc). based on the popularity of this tutorial and the number of people searching for ways to increase quality I definitely plan on recording a tutorial showing a few of those processes. thanks for the comment though Scott, I'll let you know when I release that video!
@@pixelandbracket I think many people would find a succinct yet comprehensive tutorial like this very useful. The infinite complexity and power of the tools PS / AI offer, can make lower-res images 'workable' -- though the process can be daunting. Many freelance and amateur designers (like myself) simply lack the time or experience to properly enlarge/vectorize the lo-res images we get from clients. Creating a tutorial(s) that shows the process, then optimum 'starting settings' for general use, then continues with tweaking examples by displaying how each tool works would be invaluable.
@@DianaVBV Bwahahaa... is THAT what you think I (and others) are doing? You are technically correct, tho: Reducing an image's resolution -- only to re-enlarge -- would be silly, not to mention redundant. If only clients understood how raster images work...
Thank you! For those who don't know: you don't have to have the image saved on your PC. You can just Right-click any image and click Convert to Smart Object! I didn't want to have all images in my document saved on my pc so looked into it and found it's that simple. However, @Pixel & Bracket, do you maybe know of some downsides to this? Just curious, since maybe there is a reason why it's not mentioned in the video. Thanks again, this vid helped me!
Thanks a million!!! I've been trying so hard to downsize a huge panorama for a small print and kept losing all the amazing quality. This really helped! Thank you!
Omg thank you!!!!!!!! I completely forgot this while trying to create composited photos for class.. dude you saved my grade! Yay I can finish my fictional photography class!!!! I hope this works!
What about if your trying to drag another layer from another project?? how do you stop that from pixellating? I tried dragging it in from desktop and reducing the size of layer manually first.
Thank you! Just what I needed! Just a quick question, if editing in LR instead of (click edit in PS) I have to download to files in my computer and then place embedded in PS.
This is a problem that sometimes appears for me and sometimes doesn't. I tried placing the logo I wanted the way you suggested, and it was still blurry when I shrank it down. Both the logo and the image I'm putting it on are 300 dpi. So I don't know.
Thank you so so much Pixel and Bracket. I used to watch your videos back when I did photography professionally, its good to see your content is still helpful and amazing.
Hello, thank you for your shar3d knowledge of this information, but if thier is by any chance if i can improve the resolution of a screen shoted picture from the pc and not a regular jpg???? (copy from pc then pasting in phd).
I have a question.. The smart object is not available for layer cut option.. it has to be converted first.. how can we do the layer cut in smart object?
+Pixel & Bracket struggling with the part where you get the image from OpenFinder into the PS doc, I dont have OpenFinder, tried copying and pasting in but cant see to get it to work..any advice would be great?..many thanks
Why does my vector file from Illustrator pixelate when I shrink it in Photoshop? I've converted it into a smart object before I shrink it and it still pixelates the logo.
Thanks Spencer. Actually, it was only AFTER I sent my first query to you, and before your reply, that I noticed there is an option listed in the LAYERS menu to convert images to a Smart Object - which answered one of my questions. So I take it from your reply that there is no 'DOWNSIDE' to saving any image as a Smart Object?....in other words, it won't prevent me doing any further processing of the image for later projects?
@@pixelandbracket I did a test with a tiny text, I loaded the image on my PC was impossible to read. But watching my monitor through my phone camera I priced the text and a few letters became readable. So I thought that with proper filters I could achieve the same result.
Thanks for taking the time to upload such a quality tutorial without all the useless chit-chat often heard in other tutorials. As an amateur this was very useful to me.
Great video! Question for you: I’m trying to make a video with a bunch of small images of people, would it be alright if go about it with a colored background?
how about adjusting it from the image size from the image button. mine doesnt look pixelated. will that turn out ok? say from 400x400pix to 3500x3500pix and theres no smart object sign on the image.
I have a small logo that’s a image.png I can’t scale it up further even after making it a smart object with out it pixelating really bad. Any advice to get around this?
First of all, in Photoshop resizing the images will get re-calculate (draw) in every single time from last layer, hence it will eventually cause poor quality when u increase and then decrease the size. Theres no way to escape it in rasterized file-layers due to Photoshop’s program build. its simply not vector based program. For turning around this photoshop has 2 thing; linked layers and smart object. Those 2 option always uses the original file’s base information. Hence when u increase size and then shrink it, it always uses the original size. And this is the optimum way of using files in Photoshop. Else gtfo and use illustrator. As for increasing sizes, using the pixel ratio change is the way to go. it shows u the best possible resolution of your file instead of manually changing sizes. Another tip, always use 10 20 25 50 75 100 etc. Way to increase file size with changing pixel sizes. it will reduce the work load of Photoshop due its redrawing it every single time when u change the file. it will increase the life span of your picture and reducing the quality loss. So in short ur informations are simply for amateurs and not an actual tip. its the way it should be.
Ive done this. But every single time i take a big image and make it small and look at the picture its pixilated even though its a high res image and i did everything right.
So I have a photo that I want to print on canvas and I would like to make it around 40x30. The file is really big so the site will not let me use it and is asking for a 100mb size. How can I do this with out loosing quality. Please help.
Hi Ive got a 3" x 5" b+w photo that I want to use to either paint or sketch. I'd like to enlarge it to A3 size but even A4 is too blurry. The original may be 50 or more years old. Is there any way to enlarge it and have clarity? Thank you.
I cant believe i have been using photoshop for years and didn't realize that was going on when I was scaling up or down. Well dang, I guess I wasnt paying attention in class to this part of the lesson. I been doing a different way for years to compensate for image quality. This is much easier, thank you.
Pixel & Bracket well they are probably the same people who can't use coupons correctly at a grocery store either lol. Some people just don't use common sense in hand with reading the fine print. Even though I didn't end up using your method, rather taking a bunch of macro photos and stitching them together to make a big image that was clear at the one inch eye level and not blurry. But nonetheless learned something from your video.
Your Tutorial "resizing image without losing quality photoshop" is good. But finally, for printing witch file format, I can use. ? How can I convert this picture to Tiff or JPEG for printing after converting it to Smart Object?.
@@alberteinstein126yearsago3 haha! Yes if you also hold "alt" or "option" (Mac) it will scale from the center of the object. I use that and "shift" all the time
Interesting! I've never understood Smart Objects before. What if the original photo is one you've just created in Photoshop and you want to move it into another photo and resize? ..... Is it possible to directly SAVE the photo you've first created as a "Smart Object"? If that is so, is it a good idea to save all your pics as a Smart Object so that anytime you want to resize, it can be done without losing quality?
Yes yes yes and yes! Haha. Here’s what i would do, if you have a photo, and you open it in photoshop and make layer adjustments and edits, simply save it as a photoshop file. You can go to place embedded (or linked) and select that PSD file. It will bring it in as a smart object, allowing you to retain full quality AND giving you the opportunity to quickly double-click and edit that same PSD.
Hi, i have a photo with moon and i want to make just the moon a bit larger without loosing pixles , how to choosing only the moon in the photoshop and make it larger ?
if you're enlarging one part of the image, it will definitely lose a bit of quality compared to the rest of the image. you will be able to get away with some, though. I would make a selection of the moon and you can then scale just that section up with transform. or you can make a copy of the selection, paste as another layer, and scale that up
Thanks for this video! Here's my question to you - I placed an embedded png file with an invisible background, and now that I saved it, the white background is visible again. What can be done to retain the quality of the photo, but also keep the background invisible?
make sure first that you're saving as a png and not a jpg. and second, make sure that the white background layer is hidden or deleted in both the psd and the smart object. here's a video i made about deleting that layer if you need it: ua-cam.com/video/OcIx20XcPho/v-deo.html
Thanks for your quick reply! I just tried it again, and I keep getting a box that says "...the smart object is not directly editable." I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.
When you bring in your PNG and it comes in as a smart object, you should only have the PNG layer and the background layer - the background layer is white and you need to get rid of that one then save your new file out as a PNG file
Thanks but it didn't work for me when resizing an image to be bigger. In the middle of using the Transform Tool it was still really sharp and as soon as I pressed enter it became super blurry for some reason. I guess this method only works for resizing an image to be small and back to original size again. Bit weird how it was still super sharp until I clicked enter to stop using the Transform Tool...
I am trying to take an image from a 1080x1920 video and then print that image so it is very large (poster size). When I check the pixel dimensions of the extracted image, it is 1080x1920. What is the general pixel size I need to print Large images? 4500x5400? Do I need it larger than that? And why is it my 1080x1920 image looks great even when zooming in on my monitor that is 27inches but information on the internet tells me I would only be able to print very small photos (smaller than my monitior screen) with 1080x1920 pixel dimensions? Thank you for your help?????????????????????????????
Hi Spencer! Thanks for the tutorial. I'm currently making a collage of pictures. However, I want to remove the background in each picture, so every single one needs to be rasterized before scaling it to different sizes. How would you suggest going about this project? Removing the background of each image without resizing, and saving it again as a png or PSD before importing them as a smart object into the PSD document?
@@pixelandbracket Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, after downscaling the image with the mask applied and then upscaling it again, the mask gets pixelated while the image remains perfect. Merging the image with the mask before scaling doesn't seem possible. Any idea on how I could solve this?
hey man., I have a question... when i go to file, place embedded, and place the photo on top of my other image, it makes the PLACED image blurry... like the smaller the image gets the blurrier it gets... any suggestions on that? Thanks man!
can you help me i had a problem with drag a photo in photoshop but i fix it and before and after that wen i resize my image it dosent have it quality my photoshop is cs6
this demonstrates how to edit in photoshop shop without degrading the quality of your image. smart objects remember the original quality no matter how you transform it and you can always go back to that. you must start with high quality imagery if you expect to have good results when designing and compositing imagery
What if my image width and height starts at 100.00% and I want to make it larger? The width and height gets beyond 100% therefore making the quality a lot worse/pixelated. What should I do?
After that 100% mark Photoshop is going to stretch your image and try to interpret what pixels it should add. It's a bit of a grey area how well it will do this, depending on the content, original photo quality, and percentage you're upscaling. I would open your original image and scale it up using Image > Image Size. Make sure you use the new Preserve Details 2.0 and select the amount. After that you can bring it into your document. it's probably going to work ok if you're not scaling above 150%, but it really depends on the size of your document and what you're trying to do. Hope that helps!
How do you scale the photo to the size you want? If the canvas is 8 1/2 X 11 inches what if you want your photo to be 4 X 5 inches? In Photoshop it only shows the percentage change in size. What if you want to change the photo to an exact size? Thank you.
Thank you, I am near tears. I had a very nostalgic snapshot of my now deceased mother. Unfortunately the only copy of that image was 72 resolution (pulled from Facebook archives).. I desperately needed/wanted too be able to print to a 20x60. I had tried many things such as printing it out then scanning it back in as a slightly larger size.
Once you have made your image into a smart object, how do you apply actions to it? When I try, it just applies the action to the background. Should I edit the image before converting it to a smart object and then resize as a smart object?
There's so many different ways to work with it, but I think you've got the right idea. I just recorded a similar video in response to another question on here, and I think the end of it is exactly what you need. I talk about making edits to the photo, saving as a PSD, and importing into another working document. That will retain all the quality and editing capabilities, depending on what your actions are: ua-cam.com/video/2j9EHf_pGek/v-deo.html Let me know if you have any more questions!
awesome! I'm glad I could help. I have tons of video content I want to get out, including one's like this that show little snippets of processes that I use daily. If you ever have any questions don't hesitate to comment or send an email!
Wouldn't the best option when importing an image into PS be to go to File and select "Open as Smart Object", rather than converting it into a SO sometime later AFTER it's been imported?
Place Embedded or dragging the image in will create the smart object right away, those are my most used. Really the only time it’s not is if you open the image directly
This tutorial shows you how to use smart objects to retain the full quality of your images while adjusting them in Photoshop. I think some people might be looking for a way to enlarge a low quality photo to make a high quality one, but that's simply not possible. Images are made up of pixels and there are only so many to work with. If you resize a low quality image, it will look pixelated. Photoshop can only do so much interpolation based on the surrounding pixels. You can add sharpening and blur effects, but at the end of the day it's not a high quality photo. As a professional designer, you will need to find a better photo, sadly there's no magic bullet.
+Tahmas Kenchers you're welcome and thanks for the feedback. I think you're right in general, but with my videos the ratio here was higher than normal, and based on the suggested videos that I'm getting views from, it seems like some people are searching for something and not finding it, so then hit thumbs down even though there's no real problem with the content
RESIZE mean change the size. Resize is about enlarge and reduction. This tutorial is about Reduction only. This is not big deal to reduce size of image without losing quality.
+mathun it’s also about enlarging after reducing. Many times I’ve seen files where the creator hasn’t followed a non-destructive workflow, thus forcing us to re-edit original images etc. this is also for those who don’t understand that when they shrink a non-smart object it loses quality and its ability to be properly scaled back up. Seen it a million times, however I am working on a tutorial with a few techniques that you can use to help image quality when you enlarge past 100% scale, but it’s a losing battle at that point
no is not. You not showing how enlarge image without losing quality. There is instruction how to back to original size :) Because you are using Smart Object you do not reduce the size of oryginal picture. You make think that you are reduce it, because you see that is it smaller on your monitor :)
I have a question. I use gimp (cause it's free) and I want to print 1 inch circles to make pendants. Everytime I resize an image, it's degrades it so it looks blurry once printed. Any suggestions?
The rectangular perimeter of the image I resized to be part of a composite image, needed to be removed; so, I zoomed into the resized image within the composite image and used a selection tool (lasso or magic wand, I can't remember) and cut out the resized image from its bordered perimeter. Then the resized image, within the composite, looked seemless and was able to continue whether other editing. What would you have done?
Hey man, awesome video :) I have a small question, I have a huge photo which is 12756 Width X 5471 Height Pixels, I've made it before for a big banner but right now I have to resize it in order to fit in a facebook cover page which is 851 Width X 315 Height Pixels, and whenever I do it gets pixalated/blurred. What I've tried is: - Opened the source PSD, converted it to a smart object then resize it to 851 X 315. - created a new PSD file with 851 X 315 and copied the original photo to it. I'd be grateful if you could help.
Very valid question. It's really the pitfall of how Facebook handles cover photos. They display only 851x315 which means that's all the information that is visible. Your image is nearly 15x that amount so there's bound to be a loss in overall quality. You're doing nothing wrong as far as your workflow. Both methods produce the same results. However, on the smart object version, Photoshop will remember the full quality of the image; for example, if you were to like the Facebook layout, and wanted to scale it up to a billboard size with more pixel density, the quality will come back. Sadly FB just doesn't have a super high quality cover photo. My only advice is to attach an Unsharp Mask filter to that Smart Object, and sharpen it up a little bit to help the overall clarity of the limited pixel amount FB cover photos allow.
Makes sense. But my image from google is 200x200 and when I drag or Place Embedded it still comes out like dog sh*t. Any way I can fix that. Thag image is the only image I have found so i cant just pick a bigger resolution. Thanks!
200x200 is very small with little to work with. That’s less than 1x1in printed. Depending on how large you’re trying to scale it up, photoshop can only stretch those pixels so much
If you’re printing it off then general rule of thumb is 300 dpi which is basically like saying 300 pixels per inch. So a 7x6 photo would need to be 2100x1800px to be 100% quality. If you’re printing at home you can probably get away with an image that’s less than that (ex. 200dpi or 1400x1200px) because most at-home printers don’t print with a 300dpi resolution. Also quality can be subjective to an extent. 200x200px is tough. There’s just not much to work with there, that’s like a thumbnail size and any method to scale that up will only look stretched out and pixelated unfortunately
Question: I have a large fire 300 dpi and I dragged it into a smaller file size 300 dpi, but the image loses its quality!! What's wrong with it? PS 2020
well yes, it just saves the og file in smart object. To increse this effect use the tiff file if possible. While u are in side the smart object convert the color profile from RGB to LAB, this way if u change colors do your edit, your images dont get reckt by the hue
Your commands don't work on my PS and computer, when I Place Embedded, when I enlarge it, still comes out blurry as before doing this commnand! You seem to be on something different than CC which what I am using
Can you please please please help me. i have 1terabyte free space on my computer but photoshop keeps saying scratch disks full and everytime i open a new file in photoshop of only 1000x1000 pixels with even 20 resolution it costs me 2gb of capacity, how do i fix it to reduce the capacity of the file?
make sure it's pixels not inches. you have plenty of free space so something else is happening. check your disk cache and scratch disk preferences in photoshop and make sure they are pointing to the correct drives. resolution doesn't matter when you're creating something out of pixels, the file size is no different, it's always 1000x1000. and a blank file like that shouldn't be anywhere close to 2gb. worst case I would try reinstalling photoshop back to its defaults if it's giving you fits. there may be other posts on this issue if you Google it!
i have reinstalled photoshop 10 times now, lost 100gb space from like 5 files. Auto deinstalls after opening it and closing and trying to open again, the worst thing is theres no tutorial on how to fix this. Literally factory resetted my entire pc.
This tutorial shows you how to use smart objects to retain the full quality of your images while adjusting them in Photoshop. I think some people might be looking for a way to enlarge a low quality photo to make a high quality one, but that's simply not possible. Images are made up of pixels and there are only so many to work with. If you resize a low quality image, it will look pixelated. Photoshop can only do so much interpolation based on the surrounding pixels. You can add sharpening and blur effects, but at the end of the day it's not a high quality photo. As a professional designer, you will need to find a better photo, sadly there's no magic bullet.
Yeah but in a way those are also the limit's of the photo quality as well. If the photo or image has at least 300 DPI it will be okay for prints and no matter what size we print it . In some parts it will alweys look bad like blurry or not crispy . I only can wish to see the day when we find a way to rezie it no matter in what size and never lose the same quality . A mix between vector and Rez
Topaz Labs is the best image enhancer I've ever used: pxlbr.link/topazlabs
Thanks for the video, though not quite what I was hoping for given the title. How does one increase an image *beyond* 100% without losing quality? I think that's what most people who click this video are probably interested in. Cheers.
you are exactly right. the problem is that beyond 100%... quality loss is unavoidable. there's a grey area, maybe between 100-125% that the image is still acceptable (depending on the format/publication). HOWEVER, there are some techniques to help cover up some of the quality loss (surface blur, unsharp mask, etc). based on the popularity of this tutorial and the number of people searching for ways to increase quality I definitely plan on recording a tutorial showing a few of those processes. thanks for the comment though Scott, I'll let you know when I release that video!
That is actually the exact thing I was thinking. Deceiving title.
@@pixelandbracket I think many people would find a succinct yet comprehensive tutorial like this very useful. The infinite complexity and power of the tools PS / AI offer, can make lower-res images 'workable' -- though the process can be daunting.
Many freelance and amateur designers (like myself) simply lack the time or experience to properly enlarge/vectorize the lo-res images we get from clients. Creating a tutorial(s) that shows the process, then optimum 'starting settings' for general use, then continues with tweaking examples by displaying how each tool works would be invaluable.
Same query here
Gigapixel
Step 1: Start with a high-res image.
Step 2: Done.
...Helpful. Thanks.
Agreed.
You can also start with a picture, NOT size it down, and then no pixelation will occur. Then try NOT enlarging it, so nothing happens to your pixels.
Resizing photos in Photoshop documents while creating composites is an incredibly common process
@@DianaVBV Bwahahaa... is THAT what you think I (and others) are doing?
You are technically correct, tho: Reducing an image's resolution -- only to re-enlarge -- would be silly, not to mention redundant. If only clients understood how raster images work...
...I was agreeing with you. You are a little paranoid. I was agreeing and being a little sarcastic... just like you were.
hello is dragging it in from finder the same as placing it? i like the drag better bc sometimes a pain to navigate to the folder to place it.
It’s the same yes
Thank you!
For those who don't know: you don't have to have the image saved on your PC. You can just Right-click any image and click Convert to Smart Object!
I didn't want to have all images in my document saved on my pc so looked into it and found it's that simple.
However, @Pixel & Bracket, do you maybe know of some downsides to this? Just curious, since maybe there is a reason why it's not mentioned in the video.
Thanks again, this vid helped me!
We have to download any app ??
Can you pls tell me fast as I have to fill the form at present 🙏🙏
Thanks a million!!! I've been trying so hard to downsize a huge panorama for a small print and kept losing all the amazing quality. This really helped! Thank you!
+Ramses Hernandez right on, I’m glad it helped!
Omg thank you!!!!!!!! I completely forgot this while trying to create composited photos for class.. dude you saved my grade! Yay I can finish my fictional photography class!!!! I hope this works!
Great tutorial! Your insights on resizing images in Photoshop without sacrificing quality are incredibly valuable
Excellent! But how do I make a high res photo into a banner 4' x 8' for the banner printer. does it need a vector format?
Nope, make your document to size, bring in the photo and scale it up.
What about if your trying to drag another layer from another project?? how do you stop that from pixellating? I tried dragging it in from desktop and reducing the size of layer manually first.
Thank you! Just what I needed! Just a quick question, if editing in LR instead of (click edit in PS) I have to download to files in my computer and then place embedded in PS.
Wow, no one in my photo club could figure out how to resize down w/o getting all pixelated. THANK YOU! Now I know.
I thought this wasn't gonna work at first but once I did File then clicked place and scaled the image it worked perfectly. Thanks man!
yoo allstar im a fan
This is a problem that sometimes appears for me and sometimes doesn't. I tried placing the logo I wanted the way you suggested, and it was still blurry when I shrank it down. Both the logo and the image I'm putting it on are 300 dpi. So I don't know.
What’s the size of your document
Hey,can you please help me with resize a normal photo to 3mm round image for a macro print.
Thank you so so much Pixel and Bracket. I used to watch your videos back when I did photography professionally, its good to see your content is still helpful and amazing.
Your channel is amazing and I can't even describe how much you taught me :) Thank you for all the work.
Hello, thank you for your shar3d knowledge of this information, but if thier is by any chance if i can improve the resolution of a screen shoted picture from the pc and not a regular jpg???? (copy from pc then pasting in phd).
Is there any tutorial for photoshop cs3?
Any app I can resize a smaller photo to larger size ?
I have a question..
The smart object is not available for layer cut option.. it has to be converted first.. how can we do the layer cut in smart object?
Use a mask, check out my free Skillshare course in the description for a masking lesson!
Can this also work in the android version of Photoshop?
+Pixel & Bracket struggling with the part where you get the image from OpenFinder into the PS doc, I dont have OpenFinder, tried copying and pasting in but cant see to get it to work..any advice would be great?..many thanks
Why does my vector file from Illustrator pixelate when I shrink it in Photoshop? I've converted it into a smart object before I shrink it and it still pixelates the logo.
What’s the size of your document
I need to do be able to do this to a picture that is about the size of an I.d .what is the best method to go about this? Thank you for your time.
Thanks Spencer. Actually, it was only AFTER I sent my first query to you, and before your reply, that I noticed there is an option listed in the LAYERS menu to convert images to a Smart Object - which answered one of my questions. So I take it from your reply that there is no 'DOWNSIDE' to saving any image as a Smart Object?....in other words, it won't prevent me doing any further processing of the image for later projects?
NO downside. if you have any troubles just let me know!
Is it by any degree possible to recover a pixelated/ruined image or to recover small details in a non vector image?
No, what you see is what you get. Photoshop can only expand on what is there and stretch/interpret pixels
@@pixelandbracket I did a test with a tiny text, I loaded the image on my PC was impossible to read. But watching my monitor through my phone camera I priced the text and a few letters became readable. So I thought that with proper filters I could achieve the same result.
Can increased pixel density help in improving quality of a noisy image taken from cheap image sensor ???? ( sorry for my bad English)
Thanks for taking the time to upload such a quality tutorial without all the useless chit-chat often heard in other tutorials.
As an amateur this was very useful to me.
Thanks for your comments! I try to get to the point most times haha
Great video! Question for you: I’m trying to make a video with a bunch of small images of people, would it be alright if go about it with a colored background?
I mean, based on your description I don't see why not!
how about adjusting it from the image size from the image button. mine doesnt look pixelated. will that turn out ok? say from 400x400pix to 3500x3500pix and theres no smart object sign on the image.
what is this program and if i have a photo i want you to help me make it can you please ?
the program is Photoshop, and this is a technique to retain quality while working with the photo
Is this photoshop on a desktop or iPad? I just dL it on iPad but mine doesn’t have file etc
Desktop
I have a small logo that’s a image.png I can’t scale it up further even after making it a smart object with out it pixelating really bad. Any advice to get around this?
First of all, in Photoshop resizing the images will get re-calculate (draw) in every single time from last layer, hence it will eventually cause poor quality when u increase and then decrease the size. Theres no way to escape it in rasterized file-layers due to Photoshop’s program build. its simply not vector based program.
For turning around this photoshop has 2 thing; linked layers and smart object.
Those 2 option always uses the original file’s base information. Hence when u increase size and then shrink it, it always uses the original size. And this is the optimum way of using files in Photoshop. Else gtfo and use illustrator.
As for increasing sizes, using the pixel ratio change is the way to go. it shows u the best possible resolution of your file instead of manually changing sizes.
Another tip, always use 10 20 25 50 75 100 etc. Way to increase file size with changing pixel sizes. it will reduce the work load of Photoshop due its redrawing it every single time when u change the file. it will increase the life span of your picture and reducing the quality loss.
So in short ur informations are simply for amateurs and not an actual tip. its the way it should be.
simple, easy to remember and very helpful. Thank you
Am I supposed to press shift button while scaling them?
From where we should download this Photoshop version ? to practice
+Crider Gavali the best place is from Adobe. They may offer free trial versions, and then the single app purchase is fairly cheap per month
Thank you brother
+Crider Gavali if you have older versions of Photoshop, the techniques in this tutorial are still available as well 👍
Ive done this. But every single time i take a big image and make it small and look at the picture its pixilated even though its a high res image and i did everything right.
So I have a photo that I want to print on canvas and I would like to make it around 40x30. The file is really big so the site will not let me use it and is asking for a 100mb size. How can I do this with out loosing quality. Please help.
Hi Ive got a 3" x 5" b+w photo that I want to use to either paint or sketch. I'd like to enlarge it to A3 size but even A4 is too blurry. The original may be 50 or more years old. Is there any way to enlarge it and have clarity? Thank you.
I cant believe i have been using photoshop for years and didn't realize that was going on when I was scaling up or down. Well dang, I guess I wasnt paying attention in class to this part of the lesson. I been doing a different way for years to compensate for image quality. This is much easier, thank you.
Finally someone who understands this tutorial! Thanks for watching :)
Pixel & Bracket well they are probably the same people who can't use coupons correctly at a grocery store either lol. Some people just don't use common sense in hand with reading the fine print. Even though I didn't end up using your method, rather taking a bunch of macro photos and stitching them together to make a big image that was clear at the one inch eye level and not blurry. But nonetheless learned something from your video.
Your Tutorial "resizing image without losing quality photoshop" is good. But finally, for printing witch file format, I can use. ? How can I convert this picture to Tiff or JPEG for printing after converting it to Smart Object?.
No need to convert. Just hit save-as and select jpg or tif
how did you scaled down without changing its shape plz tell
Hold shift
@@pixelandbracket when I saw your comment it seemed like Holy Sh** but then I realized... Thanks I earlier scales clicking shift and alt.. Thanks
@@alberteinstein126yearsago3 haha! Yes if you also hold "alt" or "option" (Mac) it will scale from the center of the object. I use that and "shift" all the time
Interesting! I've never understood Smart Objects before. What if the original photo is one you've just created in Photoshop and you want to move it into another photo and resize? ..... Is it possible to directly SAVE the photo you've first created as a "Smart Object"? If that is so, is it a good idea to save all your pics as a Smart Object so that anytime you want to resize, it can be done without losing quality?
Yes yes yes and yes! Haha. Here’s what i would do, if you have a photo, and you open it in photoshop and make layer adjustments and edits, simply save it as a photoshop file. You can go to place embedded (or linked) and select that PSD file. It will bring it in as a smart object, allowing you to retain full quality AND giving you the opportunity to quickly double-click and edit that same PSD.
Hi, i have a photo with moon and i want to make just the moon a bit larger without loosing pixles , how to choosing only the moon in the photoshop and make it larger ?
if you're enlarging one part of the image, it will definitely lose a bit of quality compared to the rest of the image. you will be able to get away with some, though. I would make a selection of the moon and you can then scale just that section up with transform. or you can make a copy of the selection, paste as another layer, and scale that up
Thanks for this video! Here's my question to you - I placed an embedded png file with an invisible background, and now that I saved it, the white background is visible again. What can be done to retain the quality of the photo, but also keep the background invisible?
make sure first that you're saving as a png and not a jpg. and second, make sure that the white background layer is hidden or deleted in both the psd and the smart object. here's a video i made about deleting that layer if you need it: ua-cam.com/video/OcIx20XcPho/v-deo.html
Thanks for your quick reply! I just tried it again, and I keep getting a box that says "...the smart object is not directly editable." I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.
When you bring in your PNG and it comes in as a smart object, you should only have the PNG layer and the background layer - the background layer is white and you need to get rid of that one then save your new file out as a PNG file
If you’re having more issues send me an email with screenshots if you’d like, should be pretty straightforward to figure out!
Hello, im unable to drag and drop to photoshop cs6, it doesn't allow me and an circle with a diagonal cros shows up (icon)
I'm unsure why, however, you can use "File > Place Embedded" to place your image into your document as a smart object. I explain this around 4:00
Thanks but it didn't work for me when resizing an image to be bigger. In the middle of using the Transform Tool it was still really sharp and as soon as I pressed enter it became super blurry for some reason. I guess this method only works for resizing an image to be small and back to original size again. Bit weird how it was still super sharp until I clicked enter to stop using the Transform Tool...
Nice one cheers mate ! only video I found that solved my issue
I am trying to take an image from a 1080x1920 video and then print that image so it is very large (poster size). When I check the pixel dimensions of the extracted image, it is 1080x1920. What is the general pixel size I need to print Large images? 4500x5400? Do I need it larger than that? And why is it my 1080x1920 image looks great even when zooming in on my monitor that is 27inches but information on the internet tells me I would only be able to print very small photos (smaller than my monitior screen) with 1080x1920 pixel dimensions? Thank you for your help?????????????????????????????
Hi Spencer! Thanks for the tutorial.
I'm currently making a collage of pictures. However, I want to remove the background in each picture, so every single one needs to be rasterized before scaling it to different sizes. How would you suggest going about this project? Removing the background of each image without resizing, and saving it again as a png or PSD before importing them as a smart object into the PSD document?
Remove the background using a mask, not by erasing the photo
@@pixelandbracket Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, after downscaling the image with the mask applied and then upscaling it again, the mask gets pixelated while the image remains perfect. Merging the image with the mask before scaling doesn't seem possible. Any idea on how I could solve this?
hey man., I have a question... when i go to file, place embedded, and place the photo on top of my other image, it makes the PLACED image blurry... like the smaller the image gets the blurrier it gets... any suggestions on that? Thanks man!
is there another way that you can do it with a copied image?
for me not working facing issue may be problems is different then this...
help me out
can you help me i had a problem with drag a photo in photoshop but i fix it and before and after that wen i resize my image it dosent have it quality my photoshop is cs6
What song do you use for your intro?
ua-cam.com/video/N-Xfg5APxik/v-deo.html
You nailed it! Awesome 😊
How do you take this picture and put it on a billboard? So maybe 12 feet high and still keep the quality?
sure you have a 15 sec intro but I LOVE how you get right into it after!
how did you make the picture at the end high resolution
this demonstrates how to edit in photoshop shop without degrading the quality of your image. smart objects remember the original quality no matter how you transform it and you can always go back to that. you must start with high quality imagery if you expect to have good results when designing and compositing imagery
What if my image width and height starts at 100.00% and I want to make it larger? The width and height gets beyond 100% therefore making the quality a lot worse/pixelated. What should I do?
After that 100% mark Photoshop is going to stretch your image and try to interpret what pixels it should add. It's a bit of a grey area how well it will do this, depending on the content, original photo quality, and percentage you're upscaling. I would open your original image and scale it up using Image > Image Size. Make sure you use the new Preserve Details 2.0 and select the amount. After that you can bring it into your document. it's probably going to work ok if you're not scaling above 150%, but it really depends on the size of your document and what you're trying to do. Hope that helps!
Great tutorial and thank you for sharing it, question: is this the same process regardless of what size you choose to print?
I learnt something thank you, my presentation will look great
How do you scale the photo to the size you want? If the canvas is 8 1/2 X 11 inches what if you want your photo to be 4 X 5 inches? In Photoshop it only shows the percentage change in size. What if you want to change the photo to an exact size? Thank you.
Just figured that one out recently: ua-cam.com/video/3tXiYQR3hBs/v-deo.html
Do you have a tutorial on how to resize the photo?
Thank you, I am near tears. I had a very nostalgic snapshot of my now deceased mother. Unfortunately the only copy of that image was 72 resolution (pulled from Facebook archives)..
I desperately needed/wanted too be able to print to a 20x60. I had tried many things such as printing it out then scanning it back in as a slightly larger size.
Once you have made your image into a smart object, how do you apply actions to it? When I try, it just applies the action to the background. Should I edit the image before converting it to a smart object and then resize as a smart object?
There's so many different ways to work with it, but I think you've got the right idea. I just recorded a similar video in response to another question on here, and I think the end of it is exactly what you need. I talk about making edits to the photo, saving as a PSD, and importing into another working document. That will retain all the quality and editing capabilities, depending on what your actions are: ua-cam.com/video/2j9EHf_pGek/v-deo.html
Let me know if you have any more questions!
Thank you! This video was a huge help btw! :)
awesome! I'm glad I could help. I have tons of video content I want to get out, including one's like this that show little snippets of processes that I use daily. If you ever have any questions don't hesitate to comment or send an email!
Is that photo an istock photo? or did you release the rights to it?
It’s from unsplash.com
@@pixelandbracket Ok, I saw it used elsewhere too and wanted to make sure there was no copyright issues.
Wouldn't the best option when importing an image into PS be to go to File and select "Open as Smart Object", rather than converting it into a SO sometime later AFTER it's been imported?
Place Embedded or dragging the image in will create the smart object right away, those are my most used. Really the only time it’s not is if you open the image directly
Any way to zoom in and be able to enhance the quality?
You just saved my assignment, thanks!
This tutorial shows you how to use smart objects to retain the full quality of your images while adjusting them in Photoshop. I think some people might be looking for a way to enlarge a low quality photo to make a high quality one, but that's simply not possible. Images are made up of pixels and there are only so many to work with. If you resize a low quality image, it will look pixelated. Photoshop can only do so much interpolation based on the surrounding pixels. You can add sharpening and blur effects, but at the end of the day it's not a high quality photo. As a professional designer, you will need to find a better photo, sadly there's no magic bullet.
People just like to thumbs down sometimes. It ain't no thang. Thanks for the tutorial.
+Tahmas Kenchers you're welcome and thanks for the feedback. I think you're right in general, but with my videos the ratio here was higher than normal, and based on the suggested videos that I'm getting views from, it seems like some people are searching for something and not finding it, so then hit thumbs down even though there's no real problem with the content
RESIZE mean change the size. Resize is about enlarge and reduction. This tutorial is about Reduction only.
This is not big deal to reduce size of image without losing quality.
+mathun it’s also about enlarging after reducing. Many times I’ve seen files where the creator hasn’t followed a non-destructive workflow, thus forcing us to re-edit original images etc. this is also for those who don’t understand that when they shrink a non-smart object it loses quality and its ability to be properly scaled back up. Seen it a million times, however I am working on a tutorial with a few techniques that you can use to help image quality when you enlarge past 100% scale, but it’s a losing battle at that point
no is not. You not showing how enlarge image without losing quality. There is instruction how to back to original size :) Because you are using Smart Object you do not reduce the size of oryginal picture. You make think that you are reduce it, because you see that is it smaller on your monitor :)
How can I delete the water marks from an image can you help me out for that too I want to delete the water marks
Mine is starting as a smaller image and I am trying to enlarge it but it still becomes really fuzzy looking
2019 anyone? Thanks mate! You're awesome.
2020 ‘round the corner!
I have a question. I use gimp (cause it's free) and I want to print 1 inch circles to make pendants. Everytime I resize an image, it's degrades it so it looks blurry once printed. Any suggestions?
Thank you a bunch man this was verry helpful
I made my image a smart object and scaled it down and it still got very pixelated in it's shrunken form. Any suggestions?
Works great, thanks. Now to eliminate the bkgrd image.
The white background?
The rectangular perimeter of the image I resized to be part of a composite image, needed to be removed; so, I zoomed into the resized image within the composite image and used a selection tool (lasso or magic wand, I can't remember) and cut out the resized image from its bordered perimeter. Then the resized image, within the composite, looked seemless and was able to continue whether other editing. What would you have done?
as much as i can understand from your description, yes. i generally mask rather than cut out or delete, but that could be what you're referring to
This video was such a huge help! Earned a like and subscribe! Thanks so much!
When i convert the image (that i have draged) into a smart object and then reduce its size it somewhat loses the quality..how can i deal with that?
Hey man, awesome video :)
I have a small question, I have a huge photo which is 12756 Width X 5471 Height Pixels, I've made it before for a big banner but right now I have to resize it in order to fit in a facebook cover page which is 851 Width X 315 Height Pixels, and whenever I do it gets pixalated/blurred.
What I've tried is:
- Opened the source PSD, converted it to a smart object then resize it to 851 X 315.
- created a new PSD file with 851 X 315 and copied the original photo to it.
I'd be grateful if you could help.
Very valid question. It's really the pitfall of how Facebook handles cover photos. They display only 851x315 which means that's all the information that is visible. Your image is nearly 15x that amount so there's bound to be a loss in overall quality. You're doing nothing wrong as far as your workflow. Both methods produce the same results. However, on the smart object version, Photoshop will remember the full quality of the image; for example, if you were to like the Facebook layout, and wanted to scale it up to a billboard size with more pixel density, the quality will come back. Sadly FB just doesn't have a super high quality cover photo. My only advice is to attach an Unsharp Mask filter to that Smart Object, and sharpen it up a little bit to help the overall clarity of the limited pixel amount FB cover photos allow.
Pixel & Bracket awesome, thanks a lot for your time and the advice, I will do it.
+Ahmed Mamdouh for sure!
1:58 if you're impatient like me
Makes sense. But my image from google is 200x200 and when I drag or Place Embedded it still comes out like dog sh*t. Any way I can fix that.
Thag image is the only image I have found so i cant just pick a bigger resolution.
Thanks!
200x200 is very small with little to work with. That’s less than 1x1in printed. Depending on how large you’re trying to scale it up, photoshop can only stretch those pixels so much
@@pixelandbracket yeah I need to print a 7"x6" photo. Okay thanks for the info man!
If you’re printing it off then general rule of thumb is 300 dpi which is basically like saying 300 pixels per inch. So a 7x6 photo would need to be 2100x1800px to be 100% quality. If you’re printing at home you can probably get away with an image that’s less than that (ex. 200dpi or 1400x1200px) because most at-home printers don’t print with a 300dpi resolution. Also quality can be subjective to an extent.
200x200px is tough. There’s just not much to work with there, that’s like a thumbnail size and any method to scale that up will only look stretched out and pixelated unfortunately
@@pixelandbracket thanks for taking the time! I will try and see what i can do.
Thanks!
Is this good for instagram?
Thanks an ocean my friend , it was so useful💎
Question: I have a large fire 300 dpi and I dragged it into a smaller file size 300 dpi, but the image loses its quality!! What's wrong with it? PS 2020
to scale down the smart image or object you call it how do you select it after it was not selected
because ctrl T dont work
hey, what's the intro song name?
What is the background music name?
Nevermind i found it: Future funk by Joakim Karud
well yes, it just saves the og file in smart object. To increse this effect use the tiff file if possible. While u are in side the smart object convert the color profile from RGB to LAB, this way if u change colors do your edit, your images dont get reckt by the hue
Your commands don't work on my PS and computer, when I Place Embedded, when I enlarge it, still comes out blurry as before doing this commnand! You seem to be on something different than CC which what I am using
How large is your original image
@@pixelandbracket It's not large at all, I got it from the web and thought I could enlarge as you showed but didn't work
This was very helpful! It was really good to finally learn what the difference was between rasterized and smart objects are!
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which command is to resize it?
Thanks so much for this video ✊🏽
when I press shift and resize the photo it does not preserve the ratio between aspects as it is expected and I do not know how to fix it
No longer press shift, adobe updated this out of the blue
I know but I have an old version.. CC 2015
PS 2019 doesn't import images as smart objects now or is it just me
Convert it into smart object yourself then.
Can you please please please help me. i have 1terabyte free space on my computer but photoshop keeps saying scratch disks full and everytime i open a new file in photoshop of only 1000x1000 pixels with even 20 resolution it costs me 2gb of capacity, how do i fix it to reduce the capacity of the file?
make sure it's pixels not inches. you have plenty of free space so something else is happening. check your disk cache and scratch disk preferences in photoshop and make sure they are pointing to the correct drives. resolution doesn't matter when you're creating something out of pixels, the file size is no different, it's always 1000x1000. and a blank file like that shouldn't be anywhere close to 2gb. worst case I would try reinstalling photoshop back to its defaults if it's giving you fits. there may be other posts on this issue if you Google it!
i have reinstalled photoshop 10 times now, lost 100gb space from like 5 files. Auto deinstalls after opening it and closing and trying to open again, the worst thing is theres no tutorial on how to fix this. Literally factory resetted my entire pc.
Do you have a proper copy of photoshop? Or bootlegged?
What version?
bootlegged
This tutorial shows you how to use smart objects to retain the full quality of your images while adjusting them in Photoshop. I think some people might be looking for a way to enlarge a low quality photo to make a high quality one, but that's simply not possible. Images are made up of pixels and there are only so many to work with. If you resize a low quality image, it will look pixelated. Photoshop can only do so much interpolation based on the surrounding pixels. You can add sharpening and blur effects, but at the end of the day it's not a high quality photo. As a professional designer, you will need to find a better photo, sadly there's no magic bullet.
Yeah but in a way those are also the limit's of the photo quality as well.
If the photo or image has at least 300 DPI it will be okay for prints and no matter what size we print it .
In some parts it will alweys look bad like blurry or not crispy .
I only can wish to see the day when we find a way to rezie it no matter in what size and never lose the same quality .
A mix between vector and Rez
this is actually the answer i was looking for, thx man
Except there is. They're all paid software, but vectorize, etc, do this.
That's called clickbait. :) What I do is report, downvote and hit "don't recommend this channel".
The only way you can upscale an image or video without quality loss is with an AI upscaler. I use Gigapixel for photos. Works like a charm.