How can I improve an image's resolution online?

We all encounter the situation that shooting photos at low resolution, especially those old photos which are shot years ago. Or there are some low-resolution images you download from websites and can’t get the original ones. But simply upscale the image cannot always improve its quality, on the contrary, the image loses more details.

Then how to increase image resolution without losing its quality become a tricky problem for us. Because not everyone knows the editing skills and prefer to purchase a piece of professional photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop. Fortunately, AVCLabs AI Image Enhancement can let you increase image resolution online for free without any editing skills! With the powerful AI image sharpening algorithms, it can increase image resolution and at the same time add similar details to avoid losing image quality.

To learn how to increase video resolution, please read How to Increase Video Resolution without Losing Quality (with Super Resolution)

Steps to increase image resolution with AI Image Enhancement:

Click on the “Click to upload” button to upload the image.

Hence we want to increase the resolution and improve the image quality so we choose “AI Image Upscale” model. You can switch off the “Face Refinement” function if your image isn’t a portrait.

Now comes the part of scaling up the resolution. Here we offer four options of 100%, 200%, 300%, and 400%. We recommend selecting 200% or 300%. Because 100% means keep the original resolution only improve the image quality, while 400% will add more extra information to the image which may lead to the deviation of the image.

After setting the parameters, now you can click on the “Start Processing” button on the bottom right corner to start the enhancing process. The whole process will take , just wait for it to do its job automatically.

Once the process finishes, the sharpened images will be shown under the “processed image” tab. You can click the eye icon in the right place to preview the processed image. Put the cursor on the image and move it side to side, then the dividing line will move accordingly to let you see the final effect on the right side. Please note that the processed images will be deleted after 72 hours, so we suggest downloading them to your computer in time.

If you are satisfied with the result, you can click on “Download Image” to save the image to your computer. And the image resolution has been doubled successfully.

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Extra Tips: How to Get High-Quality Images

It’s very easy to understand that an image that is shot by a professional camera will have better quality than the one which is shot by an old phone. So take a good camera to take photos.

If you set a high resolution before shooting an image, then you will get a high-quality image.

Although compress the image can free some storage, it takes the price of losing some quality. So don’t compress images if not necessary.

Make sure that there is enough light when you shoot an image.

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Conclusion

In most cases, image resolution and quality are set down once it has been captured. The device and the light are the main reasons affecting image resolution and quality when shooting it. If you have shot some low-resolution images and want to increase the resolution, why not try AVCLabs AI Image Enhancement online for free? It can improve the image resolution and quality at the same time taking the advantage of the powerful AI technology. What’s more, it doesn’t require any editing skills. All you need to do is to click a few buttons and the whole procedure takes less than five minutes. Now just find the low-resolution image on your computer and upload it to AVCLabs AI Image Enhancement online, and let it help you to solve the low-resolution image problem!