When you need to work with images and photographs from time to time, many times the one you like the most may turn out to be excessively small for the size you need at the time. That is why it is important to know how to enlarge them without losing an iota of quality, since, if they look blurry, they will not help us. Hence today’s article where we will see how we can achieve it.
When that image that you would love to put in your work does not have an adequate size and you absolutely need to enlarge it, you can install a photographic retouching program or go directly to websites where they offer this type of service, without facilities and all directly online.
The good thing about doing it through a web, is that if you only need this extension, it is very convenient to use them, since otherwise you will have to use a program full of options, when you are only interested in one in particular.
Let’s see how it is done and what are the best options.
Depositphotos: ease of use
Depositphotos is a royalty-free image bank It consists of a library of 125 million files, so it is very likely that any snapshot that we look for, we will have it here.
But this is not the mission we have today, so let’s focus on what we are looking for. Within this website there is an option that will do what we want and also in a very effective way.
As you can see when you enter the page, it is not that what is spectacular in the interface has prevailed, since it is quite simple and without any kind of design display.
This does not mean that we are facing a website that is going to offer us what we need with respect to the photography that we want to expand, but without losing the quality that it currently has.
Its operation is extremely simple with which we will get the where of size in any photo, maintaining the quality of the original image. The operating system couldn’t be easier:
- Upon entering Depositphotos, in the section to enlarge the image, we see a sign that says Drag and drop your image here.
- We can perform such a task or choose to click on Upload image and select from our internal storage the image that we want to make larger.
- Then it will load it and there will automatically be multiplied by two the size of the original snapshot.
- We will see how it allows us to move the mouse inside the image as a magnifying glass, to check that everything has been done respecting the same quality.
- We would only have to click on Download image and we would already have the expansion in our internal storage. In this case, we have gone from 640 x 427 pixels to 1280 x 854 pixels.
As you have been able to read, it is a simple and easy way to get double the size of a photo. The pixels grew, but the image still looks just as good as the original, something that is just what we were looking for.
Warn you that to download the image we must register on the web for free.
There are more options
There are several web pages similar to Depositphotos that will also help us to make the photos larger and not lose an iota of the quality they treasure.
They all have a similar way of operation and they are also very easy to use, although there are some that have taken care of the interface more or less, so that the result is the same and the way to get there is achieved by a practically identical path.
IloveIMG: many additional options
With ILoveMG we may be before one of the best known websites not only to enlarge the images, but to get a lot of options regarding snapshots such as compressing an image, cropping it, converting it to JPG, editing it, adding a watermark or rotating it, among other things.
This website has an advantage, since it has a Chrome extension with which we can download images, filter by format, export them, take screenshots or share them, among a few more options.
If we click on Resize image, we will see how a new window appears before us to achieve such a task:
- We just have to click on Select images, since you can perform this task on multiple snapshots at the same time.
- Now we will see how we can enlarge the image putting us the pixels and keeping the aspect ratio or directly marking a percentage by which the snapshot should grow.
- When we have chosen, we just have to click on Resize Images and voila, after a few seconds it will show us the sign that Images have been resized!, to automatically save them in our internal storage.
Squoosh: the most complete
Of all that we are going to see this is The most complete, but also the least intuitive of all, since we must go to certain parts of the interface to achieve our goal.
This is a web designed by google with which we can optimize all kinds of images in several different formats such as PNG, JPG or WebP. At all times we can preview the result so this is another advantage that it gives us.
As is normal, the first thing we should do is go to the Squoosh website.
From there we just have to follow a few simple steps that we are going to tell you about:
- At that moment we must click on Drop OR Paste, sign that comes out in the middle of the pink glob on the screen.
- Then we select the image from our internal storage.
- Now we must take into account several parameters that are shown in the image and that will help us to do what we are looking for.
- To make the image bigger we must click on Resize, option within the Edit menu on the right side of the screen.
- When the drop-down opens it is time to put in Width and Height the width height of the image we want to make. Although if you only change one of these options, the other will adapt automatically.
- If you have noticed, in the down there is a percentage, that before, almost certainly, was older and that is where the quality of the image marks us. By making it larger and not retouching this field, image quality has been lost.
- For that you have to upload the option Quality Even if you want it yourself, but to have the best quality, it is best to take it to 100, which will mean that the resulting file will also weigh more.
- Now there is only click on the blue button with an arrow in the middle of a square, which is located on the right side, just below the whole.
- The enlarged and full resolution photo will automatically be downloaded to our hard drive.
With these websites that we have finished we will be able to see, we will be able to manage images that seem to us that they are small in the best possible way and without losing any of the quality that they treasure in the beginning.
It is a very light way to achieve it, since we will not have to install any type of application and have to learn how it works, since there is no application that only makes these extensions and nothing else.
It is true that all photographic retouching programs do it and the best ones do it in an extremely efficient way, but it would imply having to learn how and where they have this function, something that does not happen with these websites. Everything is at hand and is extremely straightforward.
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