Every Platform Compresses. Start Sharper Than You Need.
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Pinterest all recompress your upload, and compression punishes soft images hardest: edges smear, texture turns to mush, and the post reads as low effort before anyone processes the content. The fix is to upload more resolution than the platform nominally displays. A sharp, detail-rich source survives the compression pass with its impact intact.
Where Sharpness Changes Outcomes
YouTube thumbnails render at postage-stamp size, so faces and text need exaggerated clarity to stay legible. Pinterest pins live for years and get judged at 2x zoom on retina screens. Story and reel covers set the perceived quality of the whole grid. The faithful model keeps logo edges, brand colors, and typography exactly consistent across every placement, which corporate accounts cannot compromise on.
Settings That Work
- Model: any faithful model; P Image Upscale is the default in the upscale tool
- Scale: 2x for feed posts, 4x for pins and thumbnails you crop from
- Enhance Faces: on for small faces in group shots, off for graphics
Rescue the Content You Already Have
Most creators sit on an archive of undersized material: video frames worth posting, old campaign images, user-generated content from mid-range phones, graphics degraded by repost cycles. Upscaling turns that archive back into publishable inventory. Run one image through the free no-signup upscaler, then use the free image resizer for the per-platform crops.
