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To get started with reshade.com you can either create a free account for the online image resizing engine and add some of your favourite images to resize online, or simply browse the image gallery and resize an image:

Resize your images:

• On any page in the right corner click on join. You will be prompted to specify an email address and a password.
• You can add a new image by going to add, and choosing an image source: a file from your disk or an image from the internet (a link).

Brose existing images:

• Clicking an image from the public gallery
• A details page will be shown
• Your monitor resolution will be automatically selected for you
• Click resize it, you will see the image at your desktop resolution ready to be set as a wallpaper
• You can create an avatar by selecting a smaller resolution
• If you’d like to resize just part of the image choose crop

How to Create a Wallpaper for Your Desktop

You can use reshade.com to resize images you like so that they will fit your desktop perfectly. This resizing will not degrade in any way the quality of the pictures you choose. The reshading algorithm used to upsize / upscale takes care of that.When viewing the details page of an image you can choose among several desktop resolutions. Select the one that best describes you monitor. If you don’t know what to choose then just leave the default option selected and click on resize it. The resized image will be displayed. If you’d like to set that as a wallpaper (desktop background) just right click and “Set as (desktop) background”.

How to create Avatars from images

There are several options for small resolutions that you can select from from the “Choose Size” dropdown box. Select one and choose resize it. This will resize the whole image to fit a box of the specified size. If you would like to crop only a portion of the image choose enable crop and after you redimension the crop region, click on resize it.

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1. deviantart.com
2. mattosai.net
3. peorth.com.ar
4. animepaper.net
5. imageshack.us
6. saiyaman.info
7. desktopnexus.com

If you find an image that doesn’t fit your screen well, you can resize it here. It won’t degrade the quality of the wallpaper as other methods do (including Photoshop). You need a free account first. It’s very fast to create, and after that, you can use the quick add feature. You will just need to push a button, when viewing an image by itself in the browser. Or of course you can add the image manually.

I have watched some anime series in my time and i tried to find images from those particular series. But based on the popularity of a certain series, there is only a number of images that you can find and they are not always what you are looking for. I was particularly impressed by certain scenes and I wanted to find images that depict those scenes. The search was not so successful. I tried screen captures, but there were lots of compression artifacts. So I use Photoshop and reshade photo enlargement software to remove the artifacts. You can also use the free online image resizer from Reshade.

Here is a the screen capture that i want to enlarge original size and a selection at 6x zoom:

One can plainly see the poor quality of the image, especially the artifacts around the edges in the image. The artifacts are probably caused because Aisha the Ctarl-Ctarl feline was moving in the anime stream and the video codec couldn’t handle compression and quality of image too well and the former screens in the stream left their impression on our capture. One should probably capture screens when the characters are not moving , to get more quality and a lot less artifacts. You can also see some sort of square pattern in the top left corner that has the same cause described above.

Photoshop offers tools just for our particular problems and these are:

The Despeckle Filter - (Filter->Noise->Despeckle) - Detects the edges in an image (areas where significant color change occurs) and blurs all the selection except those edges. This blurring removes noise while preserving detail. We can use this for the artifacts around the edges.

The Diffuse Filter Anisotropic - (Filter->Stylize->Diffuse) - Shuffles pixels in a selection to soften focus according to the selected option: Normal moves pixels randomly (ignoring color values), Darken Only replaces light pixels with darker ones, and Lighten Only replaces dark pixels with lighter ones. Anisotropic shuffles pixels in the direction of the least change in color. For the artifact.

Fragment - (Filter->Pixelate->Fragment) - Creates four copies of the pixels in the selection, averages them, and offsets them from each other. Fix square patterns by selecting regions of these patterns and applying Fragment on the selection.

Lets use Photoshop’s bicubic smoother on the original image and resize 600% both in height and width. We will get something like the zoomed image shown above.

To remove the square patterns you just use quick mask and select areas in which these pattern appears. Be careful though not to select too close to an edge because it will ruin the smooth transition next to the edge and it will cause an unnatural blur. As a rule of thumb keep your selection a distance of 5 times the breadth of the edge away from that particular edge. It is always a good idea to experiment because different images require different adjustments.

To further improve the image, apply a despeckle on it, the increase it 2 times and apply an Anisotropic Diffuse, then shrink it at half its size.

You can use Surface Blur in conjunction with a mask on the edges to remove the artifacts and preserve the edges

You can see that most of the artifacts and patterns are gone , but the edges have a certain blur. To fix this we can reshade the image after we have shrunk it a few times. and finally we get: