Increasing Texture Resolution

[nick1503]

Hey, can anyone tell me how to increase the resolution of a texture please? I mean like 1K (1024x) and 2K (2048x) by this. The quality of the texture. I recolored an armor set but it was a default Skyrim texture so it's low resolution. I have Photoshop CS6 and Gimp but I can download anything needed. Thanks :smile:

 

* I didn't really know what category but this 1 seemed the best. Sorry if it's the wrong 1.

 

My texture without increase:

http://i.imgur.com/YN2PPuT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/x7WEjnR.jpg

Do I just wanna keep that =/?

Edited April 18, 2013 by nick1503

[Twizzler77]

It's pretty easy in PS:

 

- Choose Image in the menu up top

- Select Image Size

- Under Pixel Dimensions, set your resolution to whatever you want it to be.

 

However, if you are just increasing the texture resolution, you will likely be needing to do a bit of cleanup. Since you are uprezzing an existing texture map, you're basically taking the same amount of pixels but spreading them over 4x the area. After increasing the resolution, you'll need to rework the texture a bit to get that sharpness back into it.

Edited April 18, 2013 by Twizzler77

[nick1503]

It's pretty easy in PS:

 

- Choose Image in the menu up top

- Select Image Size

- Under Pixel Dimensions, set your resolution to whatever you want it to be.

 

However, if you are just increasing the texture resolution, you will likely be needing to do a bit of cleanup. Since you are uprezzing an existing texture map, you're basically taking the same amount of pixels but spreading them over 4x the area. After increasing the resolution, you'll need to rework the texture a bit to get that sharpness back into it.

 

Hey, I was wondering if you'd tell me how to rework the texture? There's some sharpness tools on Photoshop I guess lol. I'd really appreciate if you tell me how :)

[Twizzler77]

Ideally, you would want to start at the higher resolution and recreate the texture from the ground up. From experience, I can tell you the 2nd time you do a texture it always goes a lot faster. :)

 

If you aren't keen on reworking the textures, the sharpen filters in PS might get you an acceptable outcome. Unfortunately, if the details aren't there to begin with, sharpening won't help much. This would certainly be quicker, but it might be more valuable to accept the rework to get the result you want as opposed to trying to run some filters and still not getting the result you want.