Today, even the simplest modern soap dish can be used to make a photo of good quality, which can be easily printed in large format. But sometimes the user still faces the need to enlarge the photo, and in this his irreplaceable friend and comrade Photoshop will come to his aid.
Instructions
Step 1
But first, let's figure out what exactly do you mean by the term “enlarge photo”, because many users often confuse two completely different concepts - “enlarge photo” and “enlarge plan of photo”. Let's say you have a photo like the one above, it's a great extension that suits you just fine, but you want your subject to look larger and not get lost somewhere in the depths of the image. What you need will be called "zoom in on the photograph". The Crop function can easily deal with the problem. You can find the crop in the Photoshop toolbar.
Step 2
Click on the button on the panel, move the mouse cursor over the photo, press the left key and drag the frame to the size you need. The frame can be made both variable and fixed, turn it in the desired direction. Pressing the Enter key will complete the operation. You have enlarged the outline of the photograph.
Step 3
But most often, by the words “enlarge photo” the user understands the enlargement of the enlargement of a given photo, and this will be a more complicated option. It is easy to create small from large, but to achieve the opposite result, you will have to make some efforts, and the loss of photo quality is unlikely to be avoided.
Currently, the most used algorithms for enlarging photos in Photoshop are the following two methods.
1. Step by step enlargement of the photo. If the photo is immediately enlarged by 100%, it will greatly lose quality, and with an increase of only 10%, the deterioration is unlikely to be noticeable to the eye. Therefore, it is better 10 times 10 than once, but 100 at once.
2. You can enlarge the photo to a size twice the desired size, sharpen it, blur unnecessary elements, add saturation, contrast and reduce to the desired size, while setting the Bicubic Sharper compression algorithm
Step 4
Alternatively, you can use another dedicated zoom program, such as Photo Zoom Pro. This program uses a complex algorithm, as a result of which you can achieve a photo enlargement, but its possibilities are not unlimited. The increase is possible only up to certain limits, and a photo taken by a cell phone with a weak camera will be difficult to print qualitatively on an A4 sheet, even after enlargement in a special program or Photoshop. Therefore, let the original photo be, the more the better. After all, from small to large, as you already know, you can always make. But the way back will be much more difficult.
