Have you ever tried enlarging an image and then it became blur? I tried many years ago but I never found a way to enlarge it without loosing quality. Some people said that it’s impossible and some even suggested to pay and get them done professionally… Here is an example. I want to enlarge my logo to 200% and here is what it looks like after scaling it to 200%.
As you can see, the enlarged image is horrible. I wouldn’t want to use such low quality and blur image on my website. Fortunately now I found a simple way that I can enlarge images without loosing it’s quality and I am sharing it with you!
Image files are divided into two major categories: vector images and bitmap images. Vector images are built of lines and curves, called vectors which also include information about their position and colors used. Because vector images are made of vectors, when modifying an image you actually change the properties of the vectors, properties that include color and position. So, you can resize, reshape, edit, and change the vector images many times without loosing their quality. JPG and GIF are bitmap images and you can vectorize them so they can be scaled or enlarged while maintaining it’s quality.
There is a website called Vector Magic which offers free online auto-tracer service to converts bitmap images to vector images. All you need to do is upload your image and they will vectorize it for you! Let me show you how easy it is. You will need Adobe Flash Player for this to work.
1. Browse the image that you want to convert to vector image and click Upload.
2. Choose the quality level of the image.
3. Select if your image has less than 12 colors or many colors
4. Select the palette used for vectorizing your image.
5. Done! You can download the results in EPS, SVG or PNG format. You can also share the vectorized image by clicking the Share button to get the link.
Check out the results above! On the left side is the enlarged bitmap and on the right side is the vectorized image. You can clearly see how clear the image even if it has been enlarged. I’ve also tried another free quality image resizer service called Reshade but the results wasn’t as good as what Vector Magic produced. Vector Image is truly a great service and I hope it’ll remain free forever!
[ Enlarge Images with VectorMagic ]
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this is an old thread, and i guess it used to be free, to bad it isnt anymore.
its says its free to try, you get 2 free conversions when you sign up on the site, after that its $7.95 per month billed 3 months at a time. so it isnt exactly free forever, but one could use it for a couple photos at least.
vectormagic.com/pricing
Thank you werry much!
I want to enlarge jpg I downloaded of an old, out of print board game. When I try paint programs the text/pictures are blurred. Is there any FREE way to get sharp enlargments?
THIS IS AWESOME!!!
Nice info man! Thanks ^^b
Thank you so much! I wish I would have known about this long ago. So many headaches could have been avoided, lol. I’m off to enlarge some images now. =D
ha. i’ve never known such a great app.
thanks for sharing, man..
the best advice and i manage to solve my 3 days headache. i rate you 100% good
Actually this technique is not good for highly texturred images
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! You’re a genius and a lifesaver.
thnx
thank you for the information. this is great tool !!!
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Люди напишите адрес сайта где это надо делат!ь
Wow, great tip. This will be very useful – presentations for work, digital pictures…
yeah! reshade works even fine for me! (for Anime fans, It can even enlarge any Anime Image!!!) Wahooo!!!
This thing is just for drawings(WMF style)
Porque vocês simplesmente não importam no Ilustrator? Ele transforma em vetor e depois vocês conseguem consertar a merda que fica. Quanto mais simples a imagem, melhor a conversão É ÓBVIO. Transformar uma imagem complexa é possível no Ilustrator, porém ela vai perdendo as caracteristicas de foto e ganhando cara de ilustração. Que dica inúril!
I have tried the other site you mentioned: reshade.com. It works a lot better for photos than vectormagick.
chingawa you could use that ;)
nice post…but not interested in buying
If you want to convert a more complex picture , try to use Adobe Illustrator. Same step , open a picture , then select life trace. The result could be better.
HI – very useful for small graphic type logos.
For those asking for jpeg resizing software (ie photos) I find this Photoshop plugin to be pretty damn good:
Genuine Fractals Print Pro 5
ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=7
Superb Information. Keep it up…!
great information thanks verymuch.
I wonder why people don’t read it out in there minds, it says “VectorMagic” which makes sense in all the way that it handles vector style images and not complex painted drawing.
Vector means line based drawings, everything except vector is a complex piece of painting.
So what ever resizing you do will be “Vectorized” (converted into lines).
In a final rendered vector image “No matter how much you resize the quality won’t loose as long as it is resized using a proper Vector based algorithm”
Likewise for paintings and any other picture the same rule applies.
It\’s good for anything graphically simple, but if you try something more complex (I tried a painting) it turns it into an abstract cartoon like picture losing all definition. I tried a watercolor of a city in India painted by a great artist in the early 19th century, maui-varnashrama.110mb.com/varnashrama-maui.com/album/slides/mathura.html , what the program did was to turn it into something like what you see on a Ren and Stimpy cartoon
I then tried a photo, it came out better then the painting but still is pretty bad, here is the original wwwimage.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/images/2008/02/11/image3819610.jpg and here is the vectorized version img292.imageshack.us/img292/5420/image3819610vectorizedhx6.png
the vector image is not very accurate is it?
the line inside the \”R\” of ur logo appears shortened
nvm, good software, i was just
you know….
Yep that site rocks i use that but thanks for telling.
Oh only if I had known about this few minutes before.
I wouldn’t have placed a blurred one in my page.
Thanks anyways.good job.
haiii
thanks for this usefull infor..
I wonder – has anyone tried doing this with a more complex image? I’ve noticed that I can usually get a pretty decent resized large image through either filters or other gimp/photoshop tricks when its only a few colors. I’ve found a lot more difficulty with more jpeg type images. Thats something I’d love to find a great utility to work with.
Nice! I was gonna get a software to do this, but this looks better.
Thanks Rymond ,,, very useful website
Great article, but just a small FYI… correct grammar should be “losing” not “loosing” quality. Can’t always expect spell checkers to catch malapropisms. :-)
Thanks
I’ll try
Thanx ray very usefull information. I thought it is impossible.
Very usefull info thx raY
Thanks! :D
This is bookmarked. ;)
Thanks for this useful piece of information!
That´s a very great option! Thanks