http://waifu2x.udp.jp/
https://waifu2x.booru.pics/
http://enhance.pho.to/

Anyone know any good photo editing sites that can make
older smaller photos bigger and better?

Reminder!

All and every upscaled version of images uploaded on site will be deleted on sight and can have negative consequences towards your account! Upscaling always decreases the quality of the image being handled!

I wouldn't mind if this thread gets locked right away.
Related:
forum #238953
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Real life is not CSI, you cannot magically say "enhance" and make bitmaps any better. If you absolutely need to have something larger than it currently is, e.g. as your wallpaper, at that point you can choose to use upscaling methods which are more modern and fit on your purpose. Lanczos is the good and sharp for general purpose, nearest-neighbor/no filter for pixel art or general zoom-in shots where you need to see stuff pixel perfect, waifu2x for hand drawn characters, etc.

If you are talking about restoration level of working, then pretty sure you need to learn how to use software like Photoshop properly and manually work with the piece you have. Every single image is differend and thus needs to be handled differendly, so if you apply one button online solution to it, you will always get unoptimal results. If you are using websites to do the hard work for you, prepare for lower quality results overall, for example waifu2x has always been capable of higher noise reduction and arbitary amount scaling but those sites always lock it to 1.6x/2x.

Mario69 said:

Reminder!

All and every upscaled version of images uploaded on site will be deleted on sight and can have negative consequences towards your account! Upscaling always decreases the quality of the image being handled!

I wouldn't mind if this thread gets locked right away.
Related:
forum #238953
forum #182558

___

Real life is not CSI, you cannot magically say "enhance" and make bitmaps any better. If you absolutely need to have something larger than it currently is, e.g. as your wallpaper, at that point you can choose to use upscaling methods which are more modern and fit on your purpose. Lanczos is the good and sharp for general purpose, nearest-neighbor/no filter for pixel art or general zoom-in shots where you need to see stuff pixel perfect, waifu2x for hand drawn characters, etc.

If you are talking about restoration level of working, then pretty sure you need to learn how to use software like Photoshop properly and manually work with the piece you have. Every single image is differend and thus needs to be handled differendly, so if you apply one button online solution to it, you will always get unoptimal results. If you are using websites to do the hard work for you, prepare for lower quality results overall, for example waifu2x has always been capable of higher noise reduction and arbitary amount scaling but those sites always lock it to 1.6x/2x.

It looks like waifu2x works pretty well,
at least for photos/artworks that are around 400 by 400 or 500 by 500
I think it's good to upscale low resolution artwork that needed it.

I think everyone knows CSI is fake

images under the aliasing tag are a special exception because of the nature of their construction. you can upscale them by factors of two and they will never lose any quality over the original.

this is why pixel art and spritework is so good for video games: they can be interpolated without losing any quality or much performance, so long as it's by that factor of two.

naturally if you have an .svg file, that can be scaled arbitrarily as well.

stalkerd said:
It looks like waifu2x works pretty well,
at least for photos/artworks that are around 400 by 400 or 500 by 500
I think it's good to upscale low resolution artwork that needed it.

I think everyone knows CSI is fake

as long as they dont get posted here, you are free to upscale them as much as you want (because upscaling still damages images)