How to Increase Photo Quality for Printing

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0:00 Intro.
0:46 The problem!
2:24 Thank you to Printique for sponsoring this video.
4:21 Enhancing the photos.
5:30 Double enhancing!
6:52 There's many uses for upsizing photos.
7:28 Conclusion.
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[@tedming3515]

Actually, Joan, there is also another way to resize your image using Adobe smart algorithms. If you open your image in Photoshop (you don't have to open it in Camera Raw every time) and go to Image tab then Image size, you can toggle Resolution by typing bigger or smaller number and see immediately the size of the image in pixels (as long as pixels is what you have in terms of size, not inches). The main thing is to tick Resample box and pick Preserve Details out of drop-down list. I believe Adobe released Preserve Details v.3 which does wonders. This way it's more flexible and easy to control whether you're downsizing or upsizing.

[@alessandraf.8030]

Thank you so much for this video Joanie !!!!

[@barbarahobart]

Welcome to my world! Always need to explain the print process to clients.... thanks, Joanie!

[@KevinIsCooking]

Lifesaver yet again. You're the BEST Joanie!

[@TheBiteShot]

Sure thing! Hugs to you Kevin!

[@adrianahg4963]

Amazing!’ Thank you so much for this tip

[@chrisyfitz]

How brilliant! I lost all the images of my granddaughters growing up and only have them on FB so, teeny files. Even if I can increase them enough to produce small prints, I'll be super happy and grateful. Thank you Joanie 😘

[@TheBiteShot]

That makes me so happy to hear

[@sylwiavaclavekphotography]

that's pretty awesome trick, good to know this for the future ! Thanks for showing us the enhance feature!

[@TheBiteShot]

No problem!

[@DrooliusFilms]

Amazing tip! Thank you for sharing!

[@TheBiteShot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@johncreen5957]

Great vlog, great to hear your “ what’s shakin bacon”

[@TheBiteShot]

Yahoo!! Yay for Bacon!!

[@kathyrippyfleming7277]

Love your videos ❤

[@marcotalianidemarchio3359]

Very interesting, thanks. Maybe in an upcoming video, you should also advise how to manage color for a good print, because I know there are many conflicting opinions (Rgb, Cmyk, Color lab .....) on how to save the file before printing it

[@TheBiteShot]

Great suggestion!

[@StillwatersFarm]

Wow--gamechanger!!

[@jasonp2906]

Cops/detectives on TV have been using this for ages when trying to identify a person in a picture - Zoom in, enhance, gotcha! LOL Thanks for another tip!

[@TheBiteShot]

OMG, no way! That's wild but also totally makes sense!

[@erinmoore8626]

You really saved the day with this trick on the other file. So good to have a photographer in the family! Too bad the cat’s outta the bag on my Christmas present, tho. 😉

[@TheBiteShot]

lol! Right?! Ha ha!!!

[@claudio_sergiacomo]

THANKS CO MUCH Joanine... so if I want to use only Camera RAW in Photoshop, would it let me do the enhance several times?

[@malmedia]

It might be nice to see the final resulting print.

[@brokenalgorithms4741]

It would definitely be nice to see the print quality.

[@TheBiteShot]

Ah, great point. Will say the did a great job!

[@elenahernandez4288]

Does this method works for old jpg files? Or only for raw files?

[@claudio_sergiacomo]

Just curious, what version of Photoshop and Lightroom include this ENHANCE feature? because I can't find it on mine

[@violetatelier2289]

Curious to know as well! I have it in Lightroom and not in Photoshop. Both are the latest available versions on PC.

[@TheBiteShot]

Hi I'm in Photoshop version 23 but the feature is in Adobe Camera RAW, so opening a RAW file before it opens in Photoshop it opens in ACR and that's where I was doing the adjustment. Hope that helps!

[@chuckdavidson5483]

I’m on photoshop 24.0. I checked the ••• and there is no Enhance item, and the menu that opens is shorter than the one in the video.

[@violetatelier2289]

Same here..

[@chuckdavidson5483]

@@violetatelier2289 , I figured out why I got the short menu. If you open a jpg in the raw editor, you get the short version ••• menu. You get the long version with Enhance, when you open a DNG or other Raw format file in the Raw Editor.

[@violetatelier2289]

Thanks, Chuck. I work with the RAW file, directly opened from Lightroom and there is no Enhance there. I asked Google to find out where it is. The answers says it is somehow, as an option, moved to Filter Menu, however not exactly as pure Enhance. Meanwhile I just found another way to enlarge the photo I need, as this video was not helpful for me, unfortunately.

[@chuckdavidson5483]

@@violetatelier2289 Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

[@TheBiteShot]

Sorry this didn't work on your end. If you open the RAW file not from Lightroom, but directly into Photoshop, it will open up Adobe Camera RAW for you and provide the feature there. Though sounds like you found a great workaround.

[@77dris]

Where did my comment go?