ashf Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 This is my impression from the result of super scaling a very low-res image. So AI/DL/ML tools are lucrative. Feel free to comment. additions/revises are welcome. Great Gigagixel AI (commercial, Mac/Win) Upscayl (free, Mac/Win/Linux) Pixelcut (freemium, Online & iOS) Replicate (freemium, Online) Nero AI (freemium, Online) Good ON1 Resize AI (commercial, Mac/Win) Upscale.media (free, Online & iOS/Android) LetsEnhance (freemium, Online) Remini (commercial, Online & iOS/Android) Mediocre Photoshop, PS Elements (commercial, Mac/Win/iOS) Luminar Neo (commercial, Mac/Win) PhotoZoom Pro (commercial, Mac/Win) Paintshop Pro (commercial, Win) AI. Image Enlarger (freemium, Online& Mac/iOS/Android) Bigjpg (freemium, Online & Mac/Win/iOS/Android) Haven't tried Pixelmator, loukash, Lokix, iuli and 2 others 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgraphic Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Thanks for the list, I'just got a "Xweet" today from https://magnific.ai but seems more like "reimagination" than upscaling… I've only tested https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN still under development I guess. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hewes Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 I use ChaiNNer which is GUI nodes for most of the open source AI enhancers. https://chainner.app/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDesertPhoto Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 On 11/24/2023 at 2:44 PM, ashf said: This is my impression from the result of super scaling a very low-rez image. So AI/DL/ML tools are lucrative. Feel free to comment. additions/revises are welcome. Great Gigagixel AI (commercial, Mac/Win) Upscayl (free, Mac/Win/Linux) Pixelcut (freemium, Online & iOS) Replicate (freemium, Online) Nero AI (freemium, Online) Good ON1 Resize AI (commercial, Mac/Win) Upscale.media (free, Online & iOS/Android) LetsEnhance (freemium, Online) Remini (commercial, Online & iOS/Android) Mediocre Photoshop, PS Elements (commercial, Mac/Win/iOS) Luminar Neo (commercial, Mac/Win) PhotoZoom Pro (commercial, Mac/Win) Paintshop Pro (commercial, Win) AI. Image Enlarger (freemium, Online& Mac/iOS/Android) Bigjpg (freemium, Online & Mac/Win/iOS/Android) Haven't tried Pixelmator, As you suggested to me in the other thread about lists of vector related tools, I tried the Upscayl program and it does seem to work pretty good. It is not perfect, but for low resolution images it should provide the detail I need for my work. I am including two examples. The first image is the original low resolution version. As you can see it is extremely pixelated. It was originally only 72PPI and only 21 Kilobytes in size. So it had very little data. The 2nd image is the result using Upscayl. It is obviously clearer, the colors are good, and details are impressive given how pixelated the original was. It's not 100% perfect, but if it can do this with a virtually unusable image the program should work good for images that have more original detail available for the program to extrapolate from. Thanks again for the reference of this program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 On 11/24/2023 at 10:44 PM, ashf said: Upscayl (free, Mac/Win/Linux) Not bad! Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valist Codery Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDesertPhoto Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 3 hours ago, Valist Codery said: Thanks for sharing! You're welcome. I am currently doing some experiments to see if I can improve the detail even more. If I can come up with a procedure I will share it in a separate thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bijutoha Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Regarding Pixelmator, it’s a robust image editor for Mac. MNathan 1 Quote Web & Graphic Designer https://bijutoha.com With the photo editing or clipping path services, I'm pretty comprehensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 On 12/17/2023 at 5:33 PM, bijutoha said: Regarding Pixelmator, it’s a robust image editor for Mac. Would be nice if you could post a sample of enlargement. Preferably an image below 480px to 4x scale. Use the attached pic if you need one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bijutoha Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 On 12/20/2023 at 3:05 AM, ashf said: Would be nice if you could post a sample of enlargement. Preferably an image below 480px to 4x scale. Use the attached pic if you need one. The initial picture quality significantly impacts the quality of the final product produced by a photo enlarger. The AI attempted up until this point. 🙂 ashf 1 Quote Web & Graphic Designer https://bijutoha.com With the photo editing or clipping path services, I'm pretty comprehensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 2 hours ago, bijutoha said: The initial picture quality significantly impacts the quality of the final product produced by a photo enlarger. The AI attempted up until this point. 🙂 Would you upload the enlarged picture as is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bijutoha Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 On 12/21/2023 at 10:43 AM, ashf said: Would you upload the enlarged picture as is? Here you go ashf 1 Quote Web & Graphic Designer https://bijutoha.com With the photo editing or clipping path services, I'm pretty comprehensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s8788 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I'm experimenting with Upscayl. It's quite good in that you can add additional models to those included. I'm yet to find one that's good for everything, it's a case of trying each. Generally there's a playoff in rendering of textures. Those that add more texture tend to look better providing they start with a cleanish image but they can behave strangely... In general think 4xLSDIRCompactC3 does best here - one of the additional models the project has here https://github.com/upscayl/custom-models. This is also a compact model (ie. fast), it handles bigger images very well. But there's something strange going on with the person 2nd on left merging with the texture on the rocks. Those that do better with that part of the image have mushy detail elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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