PhotoRetrica

Upscale Image

Enlarge a photo 2× or 4× and increase its resolution with an AI model that restores detail on your device.

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How to use: Upscale Image

  1. 1

    Add a photo

    Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC image, or click to browse. It is processed right in your browser and never uploaded.

  2. 2

    Choose the scale and method

    Pick 2× or 4×. AI mode rebuilds fine detail with a neural network; Fast mode sharply resamples even very large images in a moment.

  3. 3

    Compare and download

    Drag the before/after slider or zoom to 1:1 to check the detail, then download PNG, JPG or WebP or keep editing in the photo editor.

How AI upscaling works

Ordinary enlargement stretches existing pixels, so a small picture turns soft and blurry. AI upscaling works differently: the Swin2SR super-resolution network has learned what edges, textures and fine detail typically look like and redraws them while increasing the resolution 2× or 4×. It helps to enlarge an old photo, a small picture from the web or a thumbnail for printing or a bigger screen.

The AI mode runs fully in your browser — on the graphics card through WebGPU or on the CPU through WebAssembly. The model is downloaded once and then cached, the image is processed in tiles with a progress indicator, and nothing is uploaded. For very large images, Fast mode uses classic high-quality resampling with light sharpening and is much quicker.

Drag the before/after slider to compare, then save the result as PNG, JPG or WebP or open it in the photo editor.

Everything runs locally in your browser — your images are never uploaded to a server.