If you don’t mind a bit of a vintage look, film grain is a great way to cover pixelation. My personal favorite, and in my opinion, the easiest of all. You lose a bit of detail/definition, but it’s not a total blur of the whole image. This kind-of has the opposite effect of the Detail-Preserving Upscale. Set the Blur Map to the precomp and set the Blur Radius to 1. Go back to the main comp, turn off the precomp, and apply the Camera Blur effect to the original picture. You’ll use this as a matte to blur out any pixelated edges. Open the precomp and apply a Find Edges effect.
It does a pretty great job, though sometimes the images come out looking just a bit over-sharpened.įor this method, duplicate the image and precomp it, telling it to “Leave all attributes” in the original comp. Leave the layer’s scale at 100%, then increase the layer scale in the effect itself. The Detail-Preserving Upscale effect is a relatively new feature in After Effects, and it’s pretty simple to use. I’ve had to scale it up to 450%, so you can see the artifacting below: Here’s the low-res picture we’ll be using at it’s original size in a 1080p comp.
There are some creative motion-graphics solutions for getting around scaling the images up to a point where you see any pixelation, but here are three quick ways to minimize pixelation when you really need to scale them up to full-fame or larger in After Effects. No mater how much you try to avoid it, eventually you’re going to have to use some images in a project that are just too small. Here are three quick ways to minimize pixelation and artifacts in low-res pictures!
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