Have you found photos but don’t know how to make them big and bright for your blog or store? Or don’t want to spend a lot of time processing low-quality photos? Here you will find a list of applications that will help solve your problem quickly and efficiently.
Once again, let’s discuss what you can use these programs for. It is useful if you need to process small photos, stock photos, and historical or family photos that need to be restored.
We will talk about these programs in more detail:
- Luminar Neo
- Stockphotos.com
- Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs
- Photo Enhancer AI by AVC Labs
- Icons8
- Bigjpg
- Vance
- AnyRec AI Image Upscaler
- Blow Up 3
- Photoshop
- Waifu2x
Luminar Neo
Luminar Neo from Skylum is one of the most powerful photo editing software available nowadays, with many AI-based features. One of the extensions we are interested in right now is the AI upscale. It can zoom in on photos up to 6 times, and edit them so that they remain natural but better than they were. It contains enough tools for scaling and further processing with filters and special effects if you wish. The program is convenient, easy, and quickly gaining popularity among designers and fans of beautiful photos.
Stockphotos.com
Stockphotos.com allows you to enlarge the photo up to 8 times without losing the quality and contrast of the photo. It helps eliminate artifacts and blurs, and does a great job with low-resolution images. A free version of this program is available, so you can try it and see if it is suitable for your purposes.
Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs
Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs is a complete package of tools to improve the quality and enlarge your photo 6 times. The program helps to get rid of noise and jitter. And it also helps you to scale your images with quality, filling in the missing elements. It reconstructs photos by predicting how that element might look. Of course, this program may not work if the picture is too small or the frame is too shaky, but in other cases, it works magic.
Photo Enhancer AI by AVC Labs
Photo Enhancer AI by AVC Labs is a comprehensive improvement of the photo, in the form of increasing its scale by up to 4 times, as well as the transformation by removing artifacts and noise and improving color. In general, you can process any picture and make it natural but beautiful. The program has a trial version, so you can download it and see if it’s worth the money.
Fotor
Fotor Image Upscalers, including its powerful AI image enhancer, represent a significant advancement in photo editing technology. Fotor, renowned for its user-friendly interface and robust features, has introduced an AI-based solution aimed at enhancing image quality.
The AI image enhancer can intelligently increase image quality while maintaining a natural appearance, making it a preferred choice for photographers and designers alike. With the ability to upscale images by up to 6 times, Fotor Image Upscalers provide users with the tools needed to elevate their photos to new levels of clarity and detail.
This innovative feature, combined with Fotor’s extensive range of editing tools and special effects, ensures that users can achieve stunning results with ease. As a result, Fotor Image Upscalers are quickly gaining popularity among photography enthusiasts and professionals seeking to enhance their images with unparalleled precision and efficiency.
Icons8
Icons8 is an extremely simple program, with up to 4x magnification and the ability to remove artifacts. It will also help you detail your photos. There is a trial version, but all your enlarged photos will have a watermark. So you can try it for yourself and if you like it, you will have a beautifully clear picture.
Bigjpg
Bigjpg is the most popular program for scaling anime illustrations as well as low-quality photos. It has no equal in this field. But despite this orientation, the program can improve and enlarge any image. It masterfully fills in colors and gaps and smooths out edges. You can also zoom in batch mode to save time.
Vance
This software is ideal for enhancing anime illustrations, landscape images, and old photos. It can enhance ordinary photos up to 8x, and anime illustrations even up to 16x. You can also clean up your photos from artifacts and blurs. The main disadvantage of this program is that you can not especially edit photos, just make them clearer and that’s all. But in the scaling of images, it has no equal. The program has a trial version, so if you are interested, try it.
AnyRec Image Upscaler
AnyRec AI Image Upscaler is a powerful tool that can upscale images by up to 8 times of their original size in JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and more. With this advanced free AI image upscaler, users can upscale images by 200%, 400%, 600%, and 800% while maintaining the original resolution and quality. Moreover, it can detect the blurred space and fix blurry images smartly. Whether you’re a professional photographer or a casual user, AnyRec AI Image Upscaler is the perfect solution for all your image upscaling needs.
Blow Up 3
Blow Up 3 is very similar to Photoshop technology, but much simpler. It also improves the quality of the photo by adding sharpness without affecting the quality of the photo. Their special feature is the settings for different types of paper. You can try the 30-day free program, learn its features properly, and if you like it, upgrade to the paid version.
Photoshop
Photoshop should be on this list among the best. It contains quite a lot of tools for scaling as well as editing your photos. You can use ready-made presets, or you can manually select what you want. Remember that Photoshop, like many others, has a trial version, so you can start with that. But even if you want to buy it right now, you won’t regret it, it’s really worth it.
Waifu2x
Waifu2x is more of an anime illustration-oriented program. Despite its vintage and clunky interface, the program does a perfect job of enlarging images. Despite the fact that it is more oriented to anime viewers, it can handle different formats and types of pictures. Unfortunately, the zoom is only 2 times, but the program has a function of noise reduction. This program has its minuses and pluses, but nevertheless, the program performs its functions perfectly.
Final words
After reading a brief description of each program you can make a choice for yourself. Choose an easier program, like Luminar Neo, or a more complicated program, like Photoshop, or a program based on financial possibilities. But you can try the free version of each program and choose the one that appeals to you most.
