This tutorial will show you how to enhance and enlarge images with Super Resolution in Photos app on Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs.
The Microsoft Photos app included in Windows is a rich media experience that empowers you to do more with your photos and videos. View, organize, and share photos from your PC, OneDrive, iCloud Photos and other devices all from one gallery.
Starting with Microsoft Photos app version 2024.11100.17007.0, Microsoft brings a preview of super resolution to Windows Insiders on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs. Super resolution uses AI to enhance and enlarge images up to 8x the original image size. Super resolution is perfect for improving low-quality photos, preparing photos for large prints or displays, and tight cropping without giving up image resolution to zero into the content you want to focus on.
Super resolution leverages the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) on the Copilot+ PC to deliver enhancements quickly and efficiently, all done locally on your PC. You can access super resolution from the Photos Editor to enhance your images within seconds.
Reference:
Microsoft Photos app update with OCR and super resolution rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders
Windows Blogs: UPDATE 2/5/2025: We are beginning to roll out OCR support in the Photos app again to Windows Insiders on Windows 11 across all Insider Channels. We’ve made some improvements to the experience. The OCR button has been updated and will show up for every image. If the image does not...
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Here's How:
1 Edit with Photos an image you want to enhance with super resolution.
2 Click/tap on the Super resolution button on the toolbar in the Photos Editor. (see screenshot below)
3 In the right pane, adjust the Scale slider to what you want.
4 When finished enhancing the image with super resolution, click/tap on the Save options button to save your changes.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
