You're welcome Bruce. Took me a while to come up with an idea how best to show that upping the resolution also softens the image, I think the checkerboard explains it well. George

Wow, thank you!

You're welcome Denise!

You're welcome Adrianna! George

You're welcome Debra George

You're very welcome!

You're welcome Konrad, George

You are so welcome!

You're welcome! George

You're welcome George

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you liked it!

You're welcome Denyse!

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

Thanks!

You're very welcome! And thank you so much for the Thanks! That really does help me keep my channels going. Also make sure you check out my new channel for my photo videos, all of my new PSE videos are now going up over there www.youtube.com/@HTGPhoto

Too late. Already ordered and viewed. Your PSE 2024 course is your best. Learned a lot.

Also check out this previous video which talks about the different sharpening techniques kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLSblMaa37nUoWQ.html George

Thanks again!

Thanks Rich, changing the resolution on an image is one of those basic but necessary skills. I have touched upon it in the past but decided to really hit the topic head on with this video. George

Glad you did touch on this again, but even more with the 72px picture gave it a real life and very common purpose. Rich

Thanks Rich George

You're welcome! George

You're welcome Mark. In the future of course rule number one is to always shoot pictures at a high resolution. George

Hi Brian, the adjust sharpness slider controls pixel contrast and the radius slider controls how much area around each pixel Photoshop Elements is taking into consideration when making the adjustment. Usually a larger radius setting will limit or lesson detail and a smaller setting will allow more detail. In actual practice you want to be balancing both slider controls for the best visual setting for each individual photo, there is no good general setting to use all the time. Increasing the slider control for radius will tend to soften the focus of the image as it is averaging a larger area, this can be useful to help remove imperfections in the photo but in this video we want to keep it fairly low to preserve as much detail as possible while still blending out the pixels. George

Thanks! As AI improves programs like Photoshop are getting better at this every year.

@@HTGGeorge But we are still trying to describe a curve with squares ;)

@@baf_mcnab3065 And putting round pegs in square holes, I like using a hammer.

Just don't expect too much if you have a highly pixelated image. George

Hi Tom, i use a variety of techniques depending on the project and the need. Sometimes I use this trick, sometimes I use AI, depends on the project. Of course I do most of my own work in Adobe Photoshop because it is more capable.

I always keep my pictures at the max size for the best quality. I only reduce the size if it is needed for the final output. The images I use on KZfaq I get at the same size as the video , 1080p, which is about 4x6 actual. For my own stuff I keep it at the orignal size for best quality retention and shoot at the highest resolution my camera can handle.

Thanks Frank. Interesting idea, I will have to check that. My big concern would be that you are asking PSE to interpolate to a new size 2 times which will probably soften the image more that interpolating only 1 time. For the best results it would be preferable to go from 72ppi to 144, then to 288, because each time is simply a doubling of the pixel size which should give the least amount of softening of the image. If your original was 75ppi, then it would be 150 and 300. From my experiece having worked in the book, magazine, and movie poster field for loads of years back in the 80s and 90s most professional printers want 300ppi. Best to ask first and give them what they want. For printing to online services, the same advice applies, ask what they want. For home printers the higher the resolution the better, most home injet printers can work up to 1200ppi.But back to the real world, most people won't see much difference it using a good printer with good glossy photo paper, but personally I like Canon printers the best for photo work.

One more thought, ideally you would never need the advice in this video, and now there are better methods using AI which are amazing.

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Hi Marion, you should save the images at their original resolution to retain as much quality as possible. Whenever you change the resolution there will be a loss of quality, it may be small but it will be there. You can of course use tricks to make it look better and that is where Photoshop Elements comes in. But for the originals keep those at the original resolution. When you are ready to upload those to Shutterfly you can change the resolution at that point depending on Shutterfly's requirements.

@@HTGGeorge Thank you George, I keep learning so much from you. Thank you for taking things slow and explaining in easy to understand terms.

@@mariond7397 You're welcome Marion

Hi, real easy. First make sure you are in the Editor and not the Organizer. Then click on the Expert tab. All of my videos are demonstrated in Expert Mode which has the tools panel on the left. George

How To Gurus oh my goodness yes! How embarrassing! Thank you!

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Hi, the best thing to do is to get the resolutions and sizes right before copying the person from one pic to the other. One more thing to do that can help is to use the "place" command in the File menu to bring your photo into the project. By using "place" the image comes in as a Smart Object and is linked to the original, which means that when you resize the image layer in the project Adobe will go back to the original image and re-figure out the enlargement. Of course the first line above still applies, always get the resolutions and sizes right first before combining images. Also make sure you are working at 300ppi and not 72ppi, the higher resolution will help cut down on any pixelation. George

In the end no difference. Using the HIgh Pass filter is the oldest technique, that was followed by the Unsharp Mask, then the newest technique is Adjust Sharpness which is what I use. The bottom line is, which technique you like using best, they are all apprpriate.

Hi Leanna, I haven't heard of anything like that yet

How To Gurus topazlabs.com offers an AI software solution to fix low res pics. Don’t know how it works but it may involve sending pic to cloud for fix.

@@leannatimmerman9922 I'll look into it. Also just found another one. I am working on my next training course for CorelDRAW 2020 and one of the new features they have included this year is an upres utility that works with AI and appears to do a great job, haven't tried it out yet. But of course CorelDRAW is expensive.

Sure, this will work the same in Photoshop Elements 2019 and also in Adobe Photoshop as well.

@@HTGGeorge so sorry for the late reply gurus i actually never check my in box. ok so then i can do this in photoshop? my image is really depixelated...

Thanks!

I haven't yet found an image up sizer that I am completely happy with yet. Most are very good and can get rid of pixelization but they still tend to lose details. But I am sure that there will be a perfect one soon as AI is improving every month.

Hi Marcia, that is really funny. Most of the comments I get about the quality of my videos is that I move too fast! In any case I have been doing this since KZfaq started and I will be sticking with my style and pacing.

This is how I make my videos. I am teaching how to use Photoshop Elements, not just how to do a fast trick.