292 Enlarging a low-res photograph in Photoshop

…Hey gang. This is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Well, a couple of weeks ago, I showed…you the best way to upsample a layered composition.…But then we got a few comments from folks saying, well, that's great for layers.…But what if I'm just trying to upsample a flat image file?…For example, I've just got this tiny version of this stock image.…And by the way, this particular image, at this…particular size, would cost about two bucks at fotolia.com.…And you want to upsample the heck out of it like so.…Well, Photoshop CC has a new upsampling algorithm that produces great results.…

But I figured out a way to reverse engineer it in…CS 6 and earlier, so you can get great results there, too.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, here's our starting point, a very dinky image just 578 pixels wide,…by 750 pixels tall, so it's not even half a mega pixel, it's that small.…We're seeing the image at the 100% view size.…It comes to us from the Fotolia image library, but I don't…want you to think that the original image was actually this dinky.…