Print and posters
A file that looks fine on screen can print soft. Upscaling to 8K gives a poster or a banner the pixels it needs at arm's length.
AI image upscaler
AI Image Upscaler: Enlarge Any Photo to 2K, 4K or 8K
Upload an image, choose the resolution you need, and the AI image upscaler rebuilds the detail as it enlarges — edges stay clean, texture stays texture. This is reconstruction, not the soft stretch you get from dragging a corner.
2 credits
The upscaled image opens in a session you can come back to, at the resolution you picked.
How it works
How to upscale an image in three steps
- Step 1
Upload your image
Drop in a JPG, PNG or WebP. A phone snap, a scan, a compressed download, a small piece of AI art — anything you need bigger.
- Step 2
Pick 2K, 4K or 8K
Choose the resolution you actually need. The credit cost is the same at every tier, so pick for the output rather than the price.
- Step 3
Download the enlarged image
The upscaled version opens in a session that belongs to you, ready to download or to carry into another edit.
Output size
Choose your output resolution: 2K, 4K or 8K
These are target resolutions rather than 2x/4x/8x multipliers. How much bigger your image gets depends on how big it already is — and 8K is the ceiling here.
2K — screens and social
About 2048px on the long edge. Enough for a full-screen web hero, a thumbnail that stays crisp, or a social post.
4K — the default
About 4096px on the long edge. The sensible choice for a product listing, a presentation slide or a modest print.
8K — print and crops
About 8192px on the long edge. Pick this for a poster, a banner, or when you intend to crop in hard and still need detail.
Before and after
Enlarged without losing quality
Print and packaging — small type comes back readable instead of staying a smear
Every pair was produced by this page, and each one is a 1:1 crop of the same detail in both files — not two full frames scaled to match, which would look identical whatever the upscaler did.
What it is for
Where a higher-resolution image earns its keep
Product listings
Marketplaces enforce a minimum image size and reward a zoomable photo. Enlarge an old product shot instead of re-shooting it.
Portraits and old photos
Scans and phone photos from a decade ago are small by today's standards. Upscaling recovers the detail a modern screen expects.
AI art and illustration
Generated images often arrive at 1K. Upscaling takes them to a size you can print, crop into, or hand to a client.
Why it looks better
What an AI image upscaler does that resizing cannot
It reconstructs, it doesn't stretch
Dragging a corner spreads the pixels you already have across a bigger area, which is why the result looks soft. An upscaler predicts the detail that would have been there at the larger size and draws it in.
Compression damage gets cleaned up
Small images are usually also heavily compressed. Blocky gradients and haloed edges are treated as damage to repair rather than detail to magnify.
An honest ceiling
8K is as far as this page goes, and no upscaler invents information that was never captured. A face too small to have eyes will come back with plausible eyes, not the real ones.
Pay per image, not per month
Every plan includes credits you can spend on this page or anywhere else on YouArt.
Basic
For hobbyists and explorers
$9.99/mo
Select Plan- 1000 credits
- Up to ~200 images/month
- At least ~1000s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Pro
Most PopularFor creators and pro users
$29.99/mo
Select Plan- 3300 credits
- Up to ~1000 images/month
- At least ~3300s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Max
For power users and teams
$149.99/mo
Select Plan- 18000 credits
- Up to ~6000 images/month
- At least ~18000s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Team
For teams and studios
$329.99/mo
Select Plan- 36300 credits
- Up to ~12000 images/month
- At least ~36300s video/month
- Realistic face uploads
- Share canvas, workflows, and assets with your team
- Up to 10 members per team
- Up to 5 teams
- Role-based management
- Team credit management and spending caps
- Per-member usage tracking
FAQ
AI image upscaler FAQ
- How do I upscale an image without losing quality?
- Use an upscaler rather than a resize. Resizing spreads existing pixels over more area and always softens; an AI upscaler reconstructs edges and texture at the larger size, so the enlarged file looks as sharp as the original rather than a blown-up version of it. Upload your image here, pick 2K, 4K or 8K, and that is what happens.
- How much bigger can I make an image?
- This page offers 2K, 4K and 8K target resolutions, so roughly 2048, 4096 or 8192 pixels on the long edge. Because those are targets and not multipliers, the increase depends on your starting size: a 1000px photo gains a great deal at 4K, a 3000px photo rather less.
- What is the difference between an image upscaler and a photo enhancer?
- An upscaler changes the pixel dimensions and reconstructs detail to fill them. An enhancer leaves the size alone and adjusts what is already there — sharpness, contrast, colour, noise. This page upscales, and cleans up compression damage as a side effect of doing so.
- Will it fix a blurry or pixelated photo?
- Pixelated, usually yes — blockiness is a resolution problem and that is exactly what upscaling addresses. Motion blur and a missed focus are different: the detail was never recorded, so the model can only produce a plausible sharp version rather than the one you meant to take.
- What formats can I upload, and what do I get back?
- Upload JPG, PNG or WebP. The result comes back as a JPG, which is the right format for a photographic image at this size — a PNG of the same picture would be several times the file for no visible gain.
- Can I enlarge a photo for a poster or a large print?
- Yes, and 8K is the tier to pick for it. As a rough guide, 8192 pixels on the long edge covers a poster viewed at normal distance comfortably. Print at 300 DPI and that is about 27 inches.
- Does it work on AI art, anime and illustrations?
- Yes, and flat art is where upscaling is most visibly successful: line work and areas of flat colour have unambiguous structure to reconstruct, so jagged edges come back clean rather than merely bigger.
- What happens to the image I upload?
- It is uploaded to your own YouArt workspace to be processed, and the result lands in a session that belongs to you. It is not published anywhere, and nobody else can see it.
Beyond one image
Need more than a bigger image?
This page runs one fixed step. Open the workflow editor to chain an upscale into a background removal, a relight or a generated backdrop — or to run a batch of images through the same graph.