How to Make Small Picture Bigger and Clear Easily: 5 Useful Ways

Summary: This post mainly introduces five ways to enlarge small pictures without losing quality, containg the brief introduction and detailed steps on each of them.

There are many reasons for enlarging a small picture. Most commonly, is to meet the uploading requirements of websites.

But often, the image quality will be a loss when it gets blown up. A picture consists of thousands of pixels, and these pixels will be visible when you increase the size of the picture, making the picture look blurry and pixelated.

Luckily, there are countless software you can use to make your picture bigger and clear, but which one is the best and easiest? Not to worry, this post we’ll show you 5 useful ways to upscale small picture with high resolution.

5 Ways to Make Small Pictures Bigger Without Losing Quality

1. Fotor

Fotor is an easy and convenient photo editing software for beginners. With powerful AI technology, only one tap can make the picture blown up.

For those who don’t know how to set accurate pixels and how to make picture larger with high quality, Fotor’s AI Enalrger is a pretty brilliant way to get a large and clear picture. You don’t need to do anything, AI will finish all and bring the wonderful picture to you.

And here let’s learn how to apply Fotor’s AI Enlarger to scale up your small picture：

First, open Fotor and click “Edit a photo”. Upload you small image.

Second, find “Adjust” on the left menu, and choose “AI Enlarger” tool.

Third, then AI will automatically adjust the pixels of your picture, making it higher resolution. And you can clearly see the results comparison.

Fourth, click “Apply” and download your picture as high-quality JPG or PNG format.

2. Photoshop

Photoshop is a commonly used software for photo editing, and let’s see how to enlarge a small picture in Photoshop.

First, Open your small picture in Photoshop.

Second, Click “Image”> “Image Size” on the top menu bar. And in the pop-up window, you can enter the values of width and height, as well as the resolution. As to the “Resample” type, you should choose “Preserve Details(2.0)”.

“Preserve Details” is quite useful if you’re not sure how to enlarge a picture without making it blurry. It can help whether you start to deal with a small image, or forgot to save a picture in high resolution.

Pay attention: your target height and width should not beyond twice the size of your original picture. And how much the resolution is will influence your file size. So here I recommend you to set 100 Pixels/Inch.

Third, click on your layer in the bottom right corner, and choose to “Convert to smart object”.

Fourth, duplicate a layer and click on it, choose the “Blending options”. Set the “Blend Mode” to “soft light”.

Fifth, choose “Filter”>”other” on the top navigation bar. Apply “High Pass” filter to sharpen the edge and contour of your picture.

Sixth, click “File”>”Export”>”Layers to file” to download your clear and large picture to your computer.

3. GIMP

Equivalent to Photoshop, you can use GIMP to achieve photo enlargements in your computer.

The steps are:

1. Open your small picture in GIMP
2. Go to “Image”>”Scale image” on the top navigation bar. You can input the target picture size(width and height) as well as the value of resolution in the blank.
3. As to the “Interpolation” here, choose “NoHalo” and click “Scale” to finish your work. The function of “NoHalo” is similar to the “Preserve Details” in Photoshop. You can apply it to blow up your small picture with a high quality.

4. Befunky

Unlike Photoshop and GIMP, Befunky is an online photo editing software, which you can use to increase the size of small picture without downloading the app to your computer. There is how to do it:

1. Drag your desired picture into Befunky.
2. Find “Edit” on the left menu, and choose “Resize”.
3. Scale up your small picture by adjusting the pixels or increasing the percentage.
4. Once you have finished, Click “Apply”.

5. Image Resizer

Image Resizer is another reliable site you can use to make your small picture bigger online.

The steps are:

1. Upload your small picture in Image Resizer.
2. Then it will automatically go to the “Resize” option. Here you can enter your target size by dimensions or by percentages.
3. click the “Export settings”, save your resized image as JPG, PNG, WEBP or Original format.
4. Finally, choose "Resize Image", and click the "download" button to save your image.

Conclusion

Learning how to blow up small picture without losing quality is quite important in network interaction. In the above contents, 5 best and helpful ways are shown to help you upscale the image size with its high clarity. Hope you find these contents practical and efficient.