Clarity in photos

[Trev B]

Hi, I have some photographs taken with a mobile phone and the finish is not good. an exagerated explanation would be that the pictues are made up of thousands of microscopic squares and the more you expand the picture the more exagerated they become, please see attachment. Is there any way one can improve on this within Affinity? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jkehoe]

Hi Trev B,

I think the answer you're looking for is found in the topic of rescaling images instead of "expanding" them. The microscopic squares you're seeing are likely the actual pixels that make up the image. Low resolution images reveal their limitations as we zoom in on them (expand them). Rescaling tools included in Affinity Photo and other apps allow us to scale an image to a larger size but at a cost. Try the Help files within Affinity Photo for basic steps on image resizing and rescaling. The tutorials here are a great resource too:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/9-tutorials-serif-and-customer-created-tutorials/

[Alfred]

Affinity Photo is a very good general-purpose image editor, but for something like this you’ll get better results with a dedicated tool. If you’re on Windows, try SmillaEnlarger or (if you’re willing to part with some money) BenVista PhotoZoom.

[walt.farrell]

That's a tiny image. Is it the original as shot by the phone?

It shows as 96dpi, which seems odd to me, for an original file.

[lacerto]

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[Trev B]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will try all your options and I am sure I will have better results than previous. Thank's again.