Manipulating an image so that it
does not lose quality is always a problem, except for graphic designers and
professionals in that field, since they use applications and
procedures that allow them to increase the size of any image or photo without
losing absolutely anything of its original quality.
If we belong to the graphic
realm, the chances are that we get by with a few tools that may not be adequate
for the task. For this reason, in this post, we will show you the
best applications and procedures to enlarge an image without losing quality, which
will allow us to use them in all types of work without detracting from the
final result.
The problem of enlarging an image and losing
quality
One
of the biggest mysteries that an Internet user can find, especially those who
have the concern of maintaining a blog, is how to enlarge an image without
losing quality. In the case that we work with images, social media marketing tips whatever the task we perform, we have undoubtedly run into situations in which
we would have liked to use a slightly larger image, but we were not able to
achieve them due to the lack of one. A tool that would allow us to carry out
the task but without such
a marked loss of quality.
Surely we have already tried a
multitude of tools, from the simplicity of a context menu
application to the terrible complexity of Photoshop, but
none of these have offered us the results we expected. In the case of Photoshop, because
its options and characteristics are quite complicated to understand, however,
the quality that we can obtain is more than excellent. In the case of
simpler tools, it is your own condition that is to blame.
Enlarge an image without losing quality with
SmillaEnlarger
Fortunately,
in the middle of these alternatives is SmillaEnlarger, a
free, free, and open-source program that will allow us to enlarge images while preserving all
their quality and definition.
To do this, SmillaEnlarger
uses a series of algorithms and filters specially designed to avoid some of the typical defects
generated in the process of enlarging an image. Using
these algorithms, the missing information is filled in, resulting in really well-defined enlargements with
excellent quality.
How SmillaEnlarger works
Once
the application is executed, we load the image that we want to enlarge and use
the controls located to the left of the interface to determine the new size that the image
or photograph should have.
Next, to
manipulate, improve and prepare the image for its enlargement, we
will use the six filters located on the right. Finally, we click on the "Preview" button
to check that the settings are correct. When we finish, click on the "Enlarge
and Save" button to start the expansion.
It should be noted
that the application's zoom controls are only for the purpose of being able
to view in detail all the damage or noise that the image may have after
applying the magnification filters.
The filters with which we will regulate the size of
the picture are six in total: Sharpness,
PreSharpen, DeNoise, Flatness, Dithering, and Francoise. In case we've any doubts regarding the
quantity of impact we must practice in each case, the coolest concept is to
start by means of adjusting all of the sliders approximately halfway, a good
way to truely produce an most effective end result. After that, it only remains
for us to analyze that is the fine dating among the filters to acquire the
proper end result we want.
Other features
that SmillaEnlarger offers us is that it can crop the image
and transform it to the aspect ratio we want; that is, we can take a
photograph or image from 4: 3 to 16: 9 without problems, of course, the
program will add the Bands needed to keep the image centered. This feature
can be found in the "Cropping" tab.
