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The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to a method of enlarging images using a free online photo resizer and Photoshop. The software mentioned is available here at reshade.com. It allows you to enlarge images without making them blurry like directly in Photoshop. Here’s an example:

A crop from the enlarged version (200%):

Photoshop

Reshade

Another crop from the same image:

Photoshop

Reshade

We wouldn’t want wrinkles on this woman’s face to be too obvious. The extreme reshading chosen does that:

Photoshop

Reshade

Reshade.com offers a kind of sharpening that is not available in Photoshop. The same effect cannot be created even if applying multiple filters. In the examples above this sharpening is set to a very high value to get the strongest results. This is done to select only parts of the image that need more sharpening. For best results you can combine the sharper version with the image resized in Photoshop.

Here’s what to do:

The result (two times as big than the original):

1. Create 2 layers: the bottom one is the resized version in photoshop, the top one the reshaded version
2. Create a mask on the top layer and with a soft brush removed the parts that were too sharp (the wrinkles). Mainly keep the reshaded eyes, some of the hair and the mouth with the feathers.

 Don’t forget to visit the site and try out the online picture resizer yourself.