I am using jQuery File Upload plugin (http://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/) for image upload for my website. I have look through (https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-
The plugin does support image previews though I'm trying to figure out how to resize it to a higher resolution. You can access the preview by doing something like this:
$('.fileupload-field')
.fileupload({
disableImageResize: false,
previewMaxWidth: 320,
previewMaxHeight: 320
})
.bind('fileuploadprocessalways', function(e, data)
{
var canvas = data.files[0].preview;
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL();
$("#some-image").css("background-image", 'url(' + dataURL +')');
})