What are the best practices for upsizing an image?

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December 5, 2013
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I've got CS6 and need to take an image that's 15x11 @11363214 and upsize it to 60x48 @11363214. What's the best way to do this that will produce the best results? Thanks.

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JJMack

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mc_mark wrote:
I've got CS6 and need to take an image that's 15x11 @300dpi and upsize it to 60x48 @300dpi. What's the best way to do this that will produce the best results? Thanks.

Why do you need 300 DPI for a 5 foot by 4 foot image? Images that size are not viewed from a distance where the human vision can resolve down to 300 DPI.

JJMack

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

I know you said that you have CS6, but CC has a new upscaling feature called "Preserve Detail" that workd fairly well. Your'e other option is to get onOne's Genuine Fractals, that is good for upscaling. Other than than, try some of the different resampling modes. Some might work better for your file. Bicubic Smoother is suppost to be good for upscaling, but sometimes some of the other modes are better.

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mc_markAuthor

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Yes I was using Bicubic Smoother and it wasn't too bad. Are there accepted rules to follow when upscaling this much? Such as do it in smaller steps instead of going straight from 15x11 to 60x48 (actually it would go to 65.4x48 and then cropped to 60x48)?

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

I've never heard of doing it in steps - I don't think that would do anything for you, but you can try and compare.

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