INCORRECT PX SIZE ON PRODUCTS

[ZAZKAT]

I have been working with a variety of photographs within my designs for products.  All of the sudden and before publishing them for sale, I sometimes see a haze cover on some of my images letting me know that the pixel size is not appropriate.  

What platform have you used to resize your photo's?  Any luck or a lot of distortion to the original?  Are most people using Photoshop?

[Marcia]

I use On1. It works fairly well. After I rez it up, I put it in photoshop for a slight sharpening, taking it back down to 8bit & saving it out as a jpg instead of a psd. No, it's not as great as the original, but I've had no complaints or returns. (So far!)

[KeegansCreation]

I use Topaz Gigapixel. If it's just going to be a small upsize I use Photoshop. It all depends on what sort of jump you are trying to make. The product you are making also makes a difference. The more porous a product, the more forgiving it is of artifacts. But acrylic, ceramic and photo paper are very unforgiving and I wouldn't try a major upsize. If you use software to upsize by 50% or so (as I have done with Topaz Gigapixel) you can get away with a tapestry, but I wouldn't put it on a large acrylic wall art.

[Windy]

I never res up. I just start with big photos. Are you trying to make very large products? As to whether most people here use Photoshop, that is one of the programs I see mentioned, but not very often.

[WHS_Designs]

if you're working with PCs, A Sharper Scaling is a freeware program for upscaling.

A Sharper Scaling - High Quality Image Upscaling Freeware (a-sharper-scaling.com)