This especially applies to photos taken on older cameras that may have had a relatively low pixel count. Super Resolution will up-size the photo to be a 48 Megapixel image with dimensions of 8576 x 5696 which will print at 286 ppi – much closer to the ideal. Well below the ideal 360 pixels for an Epson printer. If your image is has less resolution than that, it can often be better to use a high quality resizing algorithm such as Super Resolution than to rely on the printer driver doing it for you.įor example, if you have a 12 Megapixel image with dimensions of 4288 x 2848 pixels and you want to make a 30×22″ print, your print will have a resolution of 143 pixels per inch (ppi). For Epson printers this is 360 pixels per inch. When you print an image, the printer’s software will always up-size the image to the printer’s native print resolution. The main reason you would want to up-size a photo is to print it at a larger size than it’s current number of pixels allows. So, when should you up-size your photos? Printing Large What it WILL do is make your enlargements the best quality that is currently available. Up-sizing your photos won’t magically make your photos higher quality or give you results equal to a higher resolution camera. If you don’t have a specific reason to up-size your photos, you shouldn’t (I’ll get to the reasons in a second). I don’t recommend that you go and up-size all of your photos just because you can. 24 Megapixels will increase to 96, and so on.Īdobe Photoshop Super Resolution Why Do You Need This? So if your camera takes 12 Megapixel photos, Super Resolution will up-size them to be 48 Megapixel images. Super Resolution will double both the width and the height of your photo – which will increase the Megapixel count by a factor of 4. There are no options available in regards to how large you can make your photos. Luckily, Camera Raw is able to process TIFF and Jpeg photos as well as raw files. According to Adobe it will come to Lightroom at a later date.

It is only available in the PhotoShop Camera Raw module for now. The new algorithm has been developing using machine learning and claims to do a better job than other tools.

Put simply, Super Resolution is a new way to make your photos larger (a process often called up-sizing, up-rezing or re-sampling). Adobe recently released an update to their ‘Adobe Camera Raw’ PhotoShop module that had a new feature that caught my interest.

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