Sooner or later, someone asks for "the logo, but bigger" — for a banner, a storefront sign, or a large-format print — and the only file anyone can find is a small PNG that's been resaved a dozen times. Scaling it up in a normal image editor just makes the blur bigger.
Why a small raster file falls apart at scale
A raster image is a fixed grid of pixels. Stretch it 4× and you're not adding detail — you're just making each existing pixel bigger, which is exactly why an enlarged logo looks soft, blocky, or fuzzy at the edges.
Start from the largest file you can find
Before reaching for any tool, track down the biggest, least-compressed version of the logo that exists anywhere — an old email attachment, a brand guidelines PDF, a design file export. Every upscale works from what's actually there; it can restore detail, but it can't invent a version of the logo nobody has.
Recover detail with Upscale
Upscale adds sharpness and detail back into a raster image at up to 4× its original size — often enough to take a small logo PNG from "looks fine as an app icon" to "holds up on a banner."
"You can't turn a small file into a vector — but you can usually get it sharp enough that nobody notices the difference."
Tip: Run the upscaled result back through Print Score against your actual output size before you send it anywhere — it'll tell you plainly whether the resolution holds up at that size, instead of guessing.
Clean up the background before you scale
If the source file has a busy or off-white background, strip it first with HD Cutout so the upscale is spent on sharpening the logo itself, not the noise around it.
It's not the same as having a true vector file — but for the one-off "can you make this bigger" request that shows up in every project, it's usually all you need.
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