How to Resize an Image Without Losing Quality

How to Resize an Image Online: Step-by-Step Guide

If this is the first time you are using Watermarkly, we have prepared a brief guide to help you quickly resize an image while preserving its quality. Follow these steps:

1. Go to the Watermarkly website and click on the "Tools" tab at the top.
2. From the list of available editing tools, select "Resize Photos."
3. You will see the app’s window. Click the "Select Images" button and pick your files. As an option, you can also drag the necessary images from their folder and drop them into the app. One of Watermarkly’s benefits is that it allows you to import files from a couple of common cloud storages. You can upload any photo that is stored on such cloud storages as Google Drive, Google Photos, and Dropbox. Moreover, you can provide a link to the necessary image, and it will be imported into Watermarkly, so you’ll be able to resize it.
4. Specify the export settings. This is where you decide how to resize your image without losing quality. You can enter new pixel dimensions or resize your image by a certain number of percent. It's also possible to choose a new file format for resized images and tell the app to keep metadata, if necessary.
5. There are a couple of additional options that you can make use of. The Watermarkly's app also allows you to blur faces and blur license plates in photos.
6. Choose the parameters for changing the name after you resize a picture if necessary. Your resized images can be named differently. You can rename the files to "Image 1," "Image 2," and so on or add suffixes to the file names. You can leave the original names unchanged, if you want. The originals won’t be overwritten either way.
7. When you are done with the export settings, click the “Resize Images” button. The Watermarkly's app will process your files automatically. When the work is finished, download the results to your device or upload directly to one of the supported cloud storages.

With Watermarkly you don’t have to worry about either losing quality or losing original files. The app will automatically create copies and apply all the changes to them. The original images will remain unaltered, so you will be able to use them at any moment.

Watermarkly Isn’t Just An Image Resizer

In Watermarkly, you can not only adjust image dimensions without degradation, but make use of some other basic image editing tools. With just a few clicks, you can convert your files to JPG and other formats, compress images or crop photos – good image quality will be maintained! – and much more.

One of our most popular tools is the free watermark app. It is straightforward and uncomplicated, yet very powerful and efficient. Watermarks can protect your images from thieves and at the same time help with promoting your brand and raising brand awareness. After all, the more people see your brand logo, the better they will remember it! With our watermarking app, you can:

• Pick a font from nearly 1000 available options;
• Upload your own logo file and edit it;
• Experiment with the size and the level of transparency of your watermark;
• Pick a color for your watermark – it can be solid or a gradient – and much more.

Learn more about what is a watermark on a photo.

How to Resize an Image Without Losing Quality: Practical Tips and Tricks

First of all, if you are resizing logos or graphic elements, it’s better to use vector file formats like SVG. They tend to support lossless compression, which is important if you want to avoid quality loss.

Secondly, try different apps and software, experiment with the settings, then compare the results. This will give you the opportunity to determine what’s works best for you and suits your needs.

Here are some tips that will help you when you are resizing an image while preserving its original quality.

Adjust The Settings Correctly

• Resolution (dpi/ppi): 72 dpi is commonly used when resizing images for the web. For printing, it’s better to go for 300 dpi.
• Keep an eye on the aspect ratio: When resizing an image without quality loss, you should either keep the original aspect ratio or crop your image to a new aspect ratio. Otherwise, you might end up with a distorted image of a bad quality.

Be Careful with Smoothing and Filters

• Filters: If you want to apply any filters or effects to your images, it’s better to do this after resizing to avoid any digital artifacts.
• Smoothing: If you want to reduce the noise in your image, don’t go overboard with smoothing; otherwise you might lose too many details. It is also better to apply smoothing after you reduce the image size.

Make Corrections as Needed

• Check the Details: Carefully examine the image after its resized to make sure that all the details are visible and clear;
• Adjust Color and Sharpness: Resizing can make your image look less saturated and sharp. If that’s the case, you might want to increase the sharpness and the saturation with the help of an image editing software.

Keep in mind that the higher the resolution your original image has, the better the quality of the resized version will be.

What you also need to remember is that image quality is interconnected with the image size. The higher the quality, the bigger the file size. In other words, an image of the best possible quality will definitely have a large file size. And that’s not ideal when it comes to posting images on websites and social media. If you want your images to load properly and if you want to meet the size requirements of social media platforms, you will need to sacrifice quality at least to some extent.

But it doesn’t mean that your images will look terrible. Watermarkly can resize images without compromising quality – you will get files of a smaller size yet that will look nearly as good as the originals.

Here are a couple more tips if you want to optimize images for web:

• Pixel dimensions should be from 600 to 1200 px.
• Compress to around 100 Kb or less.
• Compress to JPEG as this format is commonly used and offers a manageable file size.