--- --- Nov 10, 2021 # Poster-Worthy Smartphone Snaps Adobe Super Resolution by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Eric Chan Most of the photos we take these days look great on the small screen of a phone. But blow them up, and the flaws are unmistakable. So how do you clean up your snaps to make them poster-worthy? Adobe’s new [Super Resolution feature](https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-team-super-resolution.html#gs.0i9a0p), part of its Lightroom and Photoshop software, uses machine learning to boost an image’s resolution up to four times its original pixel count. It works by looking at its database of photos similar to the one it’s upscaling, analyzing millions of pairs of high- and low-resolution photos (including their raw image data) to fill in the missing data. The result? Massive printed smartphone photos worthy of a primo spot on your living-room wall. _—Jesse Will_ Adobe Super Resolution: The 100 Best Inventions of 2021 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112556/adobe-super-resolution/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112556/adobe-super-resolution/"},"headline":"Poster-Worthy Smartphone Snaps","datePublished":"2021-11-10T11:11:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:55:49.741Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112556/adobe-super-resolution/","keywords":["list","franchise","best inventions","Best Inventions 2021"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6675343f62158ff6/698a1e8e096a947fe36abd76/best-inventions-2021-Super-Resolution-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6675343f62158ff6/698a1e8e096a947fe36abd76/best-inventions-2021-Super-Resolution-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2021/6112556/adobe-super-resolution/","name":"Poster-Worthy Smartphone Snaps"}}]}] ```