Photo Upscaling Service — Sharper, Print-Ready, 4x-8x Resolution

Professional Image Works upscales low-resolution photos to print-ready size, combining AI upscaling with a real editor's review pass to fix artifacts. Phone screenshots, social-media exports, and old scans become 4x or 8x larger with sharper detail and accurate skin and fabric textures. Single-photo upscaling is $9 Basic (4x) or $19 Premium (8x with face/text refinement). Rush ($29) is Premium with under-12-hour priority delivery. Standard turnaround is 24-48 hours, Stripe checkout, no account required.

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What you get

Photo upscaling at Professional Image Works isn't just resizing — we use AI upscaling to generate the missing pixel detail based on the actual content of your image, and then a real editor reviews every output to catch and fix artifacts. AI upscalers on their own can scramble text, distort faces, and invent fabric textures that look fake. Our editor pass catches those failures before the file reaches your inbox, so the upscaled version is genuinely sharper rather than just bigger.

The Basic ($9) tier handles a 4x upscale on a single photo with detail preservation, color and lighting kept true to the source, and one free revision. It's the right tier for zoom-cropping into a group photo, recovering a slightly pixelated phone snapshot, or boosting a social-media export to web-print size. Premium ($19) is our most popular — an 8x upscale with face refinement, color and detail enhancement, optional sharpening, and two free revisions. This is the tier for canvas and poster prints, enlarging a vacation snapshot for the wall, or sharpening any photo with people in it. Rush ($29) is everything in Premium with priority handling and under-12-hour turnaround.

Standard and Premium tiers deliver in 24-48 hours; Rush is under 12 hours, seven days a week. We accept JPG, PNG, HEIC, and TIFF up to 100 MB per file. Output is high-resolution JPG by default; PNG and larger formats are available on request for poster and canvas print at 300 DPI. Every order is satisfaction-guaranteed with free revisions on every tier. Photos are stored on encrypted servers, used only to fulfill your order, and deleted from active storage 30 days after delivery. Pay once via Stripe, upload through a private link, and receive your upscaled file by email — no account, no subscription.

Pricing

Basic
$9 / photo
24-48h delivery
  • 8x upscale
  • Single photo
  • Detail preservation
  • Free 1 revision
Buy Basic — $9
Most Popular
Premium
$19 / photo
24-48h delivery
  • 8x upscale
  • Color & detail enhancement
  • Face refinement pass
  • Free 2 revisions
Buy Premium — $19
Rush
$29 / photo
Under 12h priority
  • Everything in Premium
  • Priority queue
  • Under 12-hour delivery
  • Free 2 revisions
Buy Rush — $29

Before / after

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Before After Before — original photo before upscale After — same photo after upscale
Before — original photo before upscale
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After — same photo after upscale
After

Real upscale — low-res input on the left, AI + editor output on the right.

How it works

1

Pick & Pay

Choose an upscaling tier, check out via Stripe. No account needed.

2

Send Your Photo

Within minutes you'll get an email with a private upload link.

3

Download & Enjoy

High-res upscaled file delivered to your inbox in 24-48h (under 12h on Rush).

Frequently asked questions

Is photo upscaling the same as just resizing a photo?
No. Resizing in Photoshop just stretches existing pixels — the result is blurry. AI upscaling generates the missing pixel detail based on image content, then a real editor fixes any artifacts like garbled text or distorted faces. Result is genuinely sharper, not just bigger.
How big can you make my photo?
Basic tier handles 4x upscale on a single photo. Premium tier outputs 8x upscale with face refinement and detail enhancement, suitable for poster and canvas print at 300 DPI. Rush tier delivers the same 8x output with under-12-hour priority handling.
What does $9 upscaling include?
The $9 Basic tier upscales one photo to 4x its original resolution with AI generative detail-fill. Premium ($19) goes to 8x with face/text refinement passes for clearer skin tones and readable text. Rush ($29) is same-day turnaround on Basic-level work plus Premium-tier face refinement.
Can you upscale faces without distorting them?
Yes. Premium and Rush tiers include face-refinement passes that catch and correct AI distortion. Group photos with multiple faces are best on Premium ($19) or Rush ($29) where every face gets attention from the editor.
What about old scanned photos?
Upscaling pairs well with restoration for old scans. If your scan is also damaged or faded, see our photo restoration service — Premium restoration includes detail recovery, and the upscaling can be added afterward for canvas-size print.

Why Professional Image Works