From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
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Doubling an image
From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
Doubling an image
- If you're dealing with an image that's not high enough quality, well there is a trick you can do, and it comes down to doubling the image. Let me show you. In Photoshop, let's open up a file that's a little lower quality. This one here called backyardpool. If I click on the status here, Option or Alt click, I see that it's 768 by 578. Not quite large enough for what we need, however, I could choose Image, Image Size. You'll see that there are different methods to resampling, and these are labeled whether or not they're designed for reducing the image or making it larger. Now normally, the Preserve Details or the bicubic smoother work well. Let's try Preserve Details here, and we'll switch this to exactly 200%. And I'll click OK to enlarge the image. And you see it doubles in size. In fact, we can do that again. Image, Image Size, 200%, and let it go a second time. And you see it did a pretty good job of blowing that up to a higher resolution. Now in doing so, if we explore this…
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