Resize Images Without Losing Quality | Photoshop Tutorial

In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to resize images without losing quality by using smart objects instead of rasterized images.

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[pixelandbracket]

I made a couple of courses on Skillshare!

[CC-hdbp]

Omg thank I completely forgot this while trying to create composited photos for class.. dude you saved my grade! Yay I can finish my fictional photography class!!!! I hope this works!

[ramseshernandez]

Thanks a million!!! I've been trying so hard to downsize a huge panorama for a small print and kept losing all the amazing quality. This really helped! Thank you!

[bobp]

Wow, no one in my photo club could figure out how to resize down w/o getting all pixelated. THANK YOU! Now I know.

[scottk]

Thanks for the video, though not quite what I was hoping for given the title. How does one increase an image *beyond* 100% without losing quality? I think that's what most people who click this video are probably interested in. Cheers.

[thethomasboy]

Step 1: Start with a high-res image.
Step 2: Done.

...Helpful. Thanks.

[donjoel]

Thank you so so much Pixel and Bracket. I used to watch your videos back when I did photography professionally, its good to see your content is still helpful and amazing.

[joesilk]

Amazing, been trying to downsize an infographic for a portfolio for ages, and finally I know how. Thank you!!

[MizBryteEyez]

Thank you, I am near tears. I had a very nostalgic snapshot of my now deceased mother. Unfortunately the only copy of that image was 72 resolution (pulled from Facebook archives)..
I desperately needed/wanted too be able to print to a 20x60. I had tried many things such as printing it out then scanning it back in as a slightly larger size.

[AlexArtist]

This tutorial shows you how to use smart objects to retain the full quality of your images while adjusting them in Photoshop. I think some people might be looking for a way to enlarge a low quality photo to make a high quality one, but that's simply not possible. Images are made up of pixels and there are only so many to work with. If you resize a low quality image, it will look pixelated. Photoshop can only do so much interpolation based on the surrounding pixels. You can add sharpening and blur effects, but at the end of the day it's not a high quality photo. As a professional designer, you will need to find a better photo, sadly there's no magic bullet.

[wqmwxzj]

sure you have a 15 sec intro but I LOVE how you get right into it after!

[xophotoable]

Great tutorial and thank you for sharing it, question: is this the same process regardless of what size you choose to print?

[MizBryteEyez]

OMG Thank you! I first searched for a font or premade. I wanted it the font to place in the corner of a photo we are mounting to the wall in our Gallery. Nearly fell out of my chair learning how easy it is.
Again I thank you.💕

[jobmartin]

Well, thank you, sir, for solving a problem I've dinged around with for a thousand years Right When It Really Counted! Thank you!

[fishfreak]

Great explanation!! Not too much fluff and just enough information to make me fully understand this. The only recommendation I would have moving forward is to maybe explain what you need to do for PCs as well as Max. Luckily, I know enough to know how to translate it. Thanks for the help!

[AllStar]

I thought this wasn't gonna work at first but once I did File then clicked place and scaled the image it worked perfectly. Thanks man!

[donnlife]

Thank you!

For those who don't know: you don't have to have the image saved on your PC. You can just Right-click any image and click Convert to Smart Object!

I didn't want to have all images in my document saved on my pc so looked into it and found it's that simple.

However, @Pixel & Bracket, do you maybe know of some downsides to this? Just curious, since maybe there is a reason why it's not mentioned in the video.

Thanks again, this vid helped me!

[cheongmh]

Hi Spancer, I found your videos are very helpful, I would like to thank you for your kind sharing. Would you mind to share how to increase the the quality of the photo for example an image with low pixels / resolution to higher pixels/resolution. Thank you.

[victorzimbardi]

This was very helpful! It was really good to finally learn what the difference was between rasterized and smart objects are!

[doc]

Thanks for taking the time to upload such a quality tutorial without all the useless chit-chat often heard in other tutorials.

As an amateur this was very useful to me.