3 Ways To Resize Images WITHOUT Losing Quality In Photoshop

If you want to resize an image or layer in Photoshop, this Photoshop tutorial shares three of the best ways to do so.

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Whether you have specific dimensions or want to enlarge a photo to fit on your canvas, it's all easily done with these techniques.

It's worth remembering that these methods do not improve your starting image quality, but only maintain the same quality that you started with. For the best results, you should always aim to work with a high-res image to begin with.

With the first method, you'll learn how to resize an image directly in Photoshop. By changing the image dimensions and image resolution, you can ensure it matches specific image specs required for print or various online uploads.

The second method we discuss scaling images in Photoshop with smart objects to ensure you keep the highest quality possible. Comparing a rasterized layer to a smart object, it becomes immediately obvious how useful smart objects can be.

Lastly, you'll see the simple advantage of dragging and dropping an image into your project to make life easy when resizing an image in Photoshop.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT SMART OBJECTS HERE:
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro + Overview
0:59 Resizing Images Directly
2:03 Rescaling Layers With Smart Objects
5:48 Drag & Drop Method From Computer
6:41 Wrapping Up
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[karinvonmay]

I'm so glad you shared that last drag and drop into pre set canvas size method. I am an illustrator who works primarily on paper, for now, and have found translating my scans into images meant for web display slightly confusing. That last method seems like an easy way to prep images for display in a uniform and hopefully clean way. I'll be giving it a shot. Thanks for the tutorial.

[CREATIONS]

You have no idea how much this video has helped me. I was able to go to Kinkos and print a picture on a canvas of a painting 🖼 that I've always wanted and put it in my house. The size was 30x40 and it looks amazing 👏😍

[KBlakK]

This is the best tutorial on this topic!!! Thanks so much. I was able to use the drop down method to change my album cover art to new dimension requirements of my new distributor in 5 minutes flat! The way you describe the material is very easy for me to understand, not just the what, but the why, which helps me understand Photoshop even better as I go along. Once again, thanks for sharing your expertise!!!

[davet]

Very helpful and with a good clear and concise explanation. Thank you😀

[cryssypoo]

OMGoodness!! I was wondering why this happened when I drag from one canvas to another. Lifesaver!!!

[creativediva]

Such a clear explanation of smart objects. Wow. Thanks so much!

[nicywicy]

Not enough people comment saying thank you, so here I am offering my piece. Thank you for this video, it's very helpful and you are super professional. You deserve more views and I hope you make lots of money for making such a wonderful tutorial for free for the people.

[shinningraj]

Great was looking for this for many years...u r a boon😊😊😊😊

[DesignerPanda-ka]

Thank you so much. I was trying to figure what happened to my PS. You people are best who share their knowledge to us. Love you bro.

[nomireelnom]

Your tutorials tempt me to keep photoshop instead of canceling

[Lu-Heringer]

You are a good teacher! Very clear and fast to explain. BUT, please, how this work when you start with a lower resolution image without using any paid program outside Photoshop? I'm having a hard time here to upscale images from 100dpi to 300dpi, even when I change it to a smart object. They lose quality and clarity. I'd appreciate it a lot if you can help me. I'm using PS 2020. Thank you :)

[okijohn]

Thanks so much Brendan Williams, I love your lesson. You have made me a better graphics designer. Now am adding graphics to my web development projects and it makes a lot of sense to me now. Thanks again

[SusanmolnarPhotography]

Hi, Brendan, thank you for your very clear explanation! I have a question: I have an image downloaded from a free image site. It is a jpg, and contains individual watercolored drawings of objects. I need to increase the size of these objects and individually move them from the original image into my project image. How do I prevent pixelation as I do that? Thanks for any help you can offer!

[JulianKeniryGreen]

This is a model editing tutorial. Thank you so much, Brandon from Be Well Creative. I just liked and subscribed and hope to learn how to expand presenter thumbnails on zoom recordings so we can better see the speakers in edited segments.

[imNAUTIOUS]

Man you explained smart objects so well. I never understood smart objects or used it much. Gonna now

[ansuowususekyerewofakconsu]

Thank you very much Brendan .. It is very best tutorial

[mftrill]

Okay I can't find the answer to this question ANYWHERE.
What if you have a really big image and you want to size it down?
or
What would you do if you have a big image that you want to put on a smaller-sized document and still retain its original quality?
It seems that no matter what I do, whenever I move an image to another document, and then I size it down, it's ALWAYS blurry or pixelated.
All the pictures are shot on a 45-megapixel camera so I'm very confused.

[matthewdavid]

Brilliant, how come I never thought of this
Wow Thank you so much

[ARATIKULKARNI-ik]

Many thanks for making this helpful video.🙏

[t.j.altieri]

I must say thank you! Even though I use Gimp instead, but your conceptual description helped me figure it out (more or less) on there!