This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.


I assume my readers are non-professionals who are interested in capturing their memories in the way they have experienced them, instead of how their camera device automatically suggests an output, thereby speaking of using anything from a mobile phone to an auto-set DSLR.

About the author: I am Mareen Fischinger, a professional photographer, living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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May 27
How to enlarge a picture (a little better) Sometimes you may need to make a tiny file bigger – and usually, you end up getting artifacts or softness, be it from the former compression or the pixel size. Here are some steps you can take in Photoshop: Open your image (I have made my sample image 100px wide). Change the image size to what you need (I chose 300px wide). Go to the channels tab and select the first color channel, then go to filters > add noise and add a little of it! Repeat for all channels, then click on RGB (or CMYK, whichever) again to see all colors. Optionally: Unsharp mask your image a little if you like. The photo will now have more noise, but that usually looks better and more natural than that undesired softness. You can click through to see this larger: Oh, and another tip: You do not have to save your JPGs at maximum compression (12). 10 is usually enough, if you do not need high quality printing. And it saves a lot of space. (And here is the original photo.)

How to enlarge a picture (a little better)

Sometimes you may need to make a tiny file bigger – and usually, you end up getting artifacts or softness, be it from the former compression or the pixel size.

Here are some steps you can take in Photoshop:

  1. Open your image (I have made my sample image 100px wide).
  2. Change the image size to what you need (I chose 300px wide).
  3. Go to the channels tab and select the first color channel, then go to filters > add noise and add a little of it!
  4. Repeat for all channels, then click on RGB (or CMYK, whichever) again to see all colors.
  5. Optionally: Unsharp mask your image a little if you like.

The photo will now have more noise, but that usually looks better and more natural than that undesired softness.

You can click through to see this larger:

Oh, and another tip: You do not have to save your JPGs at maximum compression (12). 10 is usually enough, if you do not need high quality printing. And it saves a lot of space.

(And here is the original photo.)


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