Just a tip I picked up from another KZread contributor: When upscaling an image, use a combination of different ai software choices (such as GP AI and PS), then layer them in PS, mask, and brush out the parts of the image that look better on the underlying layer. Love this channel, and keep the great videos coming.

@jordicastellsipou814

2 жыл бұрын

Can you link the video where you watched this tip thanks

@RockstahRolln

2 жыл бұрын

Terrific point! Appreciate you sharing this, I have to give this a try! Thank You!

@itsdaninn

Жыл бұрын

Great idea. Makes lot of sense.

@cellardoor7500

Жыл бұрын

Link

@haprocreativesmedia7584

Жыл бұрын

Share the video link please!

This dude looks like he got upscaled by ai

@KaioStudio

4 жыл бұрын

yes he looks so hi res

@voltaralcala9021

4 жыл бұрын

Exaclty

@Salsuero

4 жыл бұрын

I thought he was going to be AI talking about AI from the thumbnail.

@CensoredByYouTube.

4 жыл бұрын

I'd swear he's animatronic

@ivanreyes-ct8fq

4 жыл бұрын

@@CensoredByKZread. jajajajaj

Very helpful video. For what it's worth, if anyone is specifically looking to upscale png images with transparency and sharp lines (illustrations), I have found BigJpg to be leagues ahead of the others. I had some tiny 256x256 Windows icons I wanted to upscale, and every single one except BigJpg produces garbage looking edges and/or weird halos, not being able to handle the transparency. Apparently bigjpg focuses on being an "anime" upscaler, so is probably trained much more on cartoon images. It actually does a good job. I haven't really tested it at all with regular images because I use Gigapixel for those. (And gigapixel also completely sucks at images with transparency)

@Wickedlizerd

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness it's ThonJhon!

@phantinh2846

2 жыл бұрын

good cmt ., tks for the review , I have just use BIGJPG for 1 day, and I really disapointed in it , but read your comment made me understand the situation, I will use it in future for right purposes

@phantinh2846

2 жыл бұрын

@daniru roberdglimmer bit it is not stable , because sometimes it does not work

@adminmovie

2 жыл бұрын

look, jiff guy....

@SoraNashimi

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Joe, just tried BigJPG for upscaling my illustration style images and I'm just blown away. I was using Gigapixel but like you said it's wayyy more impressive for those types of images! The lines are so clean and the noise reduction is just wow. Thank you!

As the IT manager of a small animation studio, your statement on being upfront with pricing is spot on. When assessing options I have to create a price matrix and present it to producers. I don't have the time to submit a form, talk to a sales, agent, and sign up for a demo just to get a price. Unless someone asked for that software specifically, I am going to pass on it and move onto the next alternative.

@mrbrakelol

2 жыл бұрын

Not related to this video but if you do have knee pain (like your username says) check out knees over toes guy here on youtube... the knee guru and his exercises will help

@davidg9633

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that is one way to hook up with a demo but, I think that they want to register more for "spam" purposes than for not telling the price

Plot twist: He didn't have this video idea at all but he did it just because he got so angry at gigapixel :D

@TechnoMinarchist

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnkitSinghudaipur GigaPixel has the best quality, just mess with the sliders.

@slasankautube

4 жыл бұрын

Huh Huh Huh OMG

@hautehussey

3 жыл бұрын

If you’re getting lines you probably need to turn off the GPU usage.

@biljinmathew3045

3 жыл бұрын

Brother he had mentioned that it is only his personal opinion..

@wilsonnchamp

3 жыл бұрын

I got angry at the clickbait thumbnail.

Why didn’t you compare the winner to the full resolution image?

@marekkoodziejak1513

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's quite good material, but this final comparison should be added. And it's too long video - I like the step-by-step presentation, but it definitely should be beter edited (about half of it would be gone). Anyway thumbs up - I will check this channel from time to time...

@ivellios_rp

4 жыл бұрын

@@marekkoodziejak1513 Dłuższe wideo = więcej slotów na reklamy ;-) sporo kanałów tak działa. A z Gigapixelem jest problem, mianowicie ów banding pojawia się w momencie gdy upscale'ujemy obrazek z użyciem dedykowanego GPU oraz najwyższej jakości modeli AI. Po przestawieniu z GPU na CPU lub zmianie z najwyższej jakości na standardowej jakości modele AI, banding całkowicie znika i efekt końcowy wygląda dużo lepiej. (I already wrote this Gigapixel thing in English, as 'Radio Paranormalium'; sorry for making a mess with my nicknames, I forgot to switch to my personal account).

@charbelito941

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivellios_rp doesn't make sense why?

@ivellios_rp

4 жыл бұрын

@@charbelito941 ??

@romanromero5099

4 жыл бұрын

because high res original will be always better than the upscaled version it is common sense. Thereby comparing with low res is the way to go.

Let’s enhance just destroyed all the detail and made everything smooth. It’s by far the worst upscaler in the list.

@radiorain5665

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the only one that didn't make the hair look fake. But it definitely did make the image soft.

@circleinfo

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the improved, maybe it was because I used different pictures, but compared Let's Enhance and Imglarger and in my test Let's enhance always look way better. I recommend to try it on your own.

@uyubebekim

3 жыл бұрын

"Let’s enhance" is the worst

@circleinfo

3 жыл бұрын

@@uyubebekim Then you definitly hasnt tested it much yourself. lol

@AnvithV

3 жыл бұрын

@@uyubebekim Its actually very good. Try it yourself first

I am a Gigapixel AI customer and have not had any issues with it. I cannot say I've used it often, but when I have its been excellent. This past Winter I used it to 'stretch' a fairly large panorama file to 300 DPI x 6 feet wide. I don't recall the original file size, so maybe it was like a 2x or 3x expansion. Anyway, the resulting print and image file came back with zero issues. All this said, there are settings for Gigapixel AI that need to be adjusted for optimal quality. CPU vs GPU, etc.

@hankfowler8194

Жыл бұрын

I use Gigapixel and have had no lines. Must be a flaw in your system.

Disabling the GPU in Gigapixel will avoid horizontal banding in the result

for me letsenhance is one of the worst, it kills details and artificial smoothing of textures, it's a no go

@Firebrand911

4 жыл бұрын

It has Noise Reduction on by Default -- which skewed all the results. It does look nice for soft pretty faces -- but would ruin any other image. But the rest of his list was spot on.

@loot6

4 жыл бұрын

@@Firebrand911 But despite that he said it was always nicer than the others though, obviously a paid promotion.

@gutzbin

4 жыл бұрын

loot6 If i say i love someone’s music, does that mean they paid me? If i say i love IOS, does that mean apple paid me? No, it doesn’t. Just because someone *prefers* something over the other, doesn’t mean it’s a paid promo.

@RomanSable

4 жыл бұрын

But you can combine imglarger and letsenhance together and take the best part of each. I like soft skin and right part of hair of letsenhance. So, you can get so much better result with this two services, just needs little bit of masking work.

@bulent2435

4 жыл бұрын

I can't agree more. letsenhance ruined eyes completely, and I don't understand how it can be considered good.

I can’t even begin to describe how helpful this is

I love the way you drop little pieces of tech knowledge at the beginning of your videos. So quick and simple but makes so much sense and I never understood the concept before you explained it 😊

Need to compare with original photo.

@3DCGdesign

4 жыл бұрын

right? I thought that was the point - seems like he forgot.

@GarthMurray1

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the whole point of upscaling is to increase the image size faithfully not create a new look.

@irvanoktaviana1518

4 жыл бұрын

I think, the caption is '7 Software Compared', that's mean compare each other.. not compare with the original one.. The answer compare with original photo, it will never be the same.. close but not the same..

@stancer25

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I actually waited for that but it never happened.

@bartman26

4 жыл бұрын

@@irvanoktaviana1518 yea the idea is to make a small image bigger not make an image bigger when a bigger one exists the points is that the small image would be the original

I've tried few pictures with Imglarger and it is extremely impressive. It loses some roughness and makes things look slightly cartoony and too soft, but the sheer resolution upgrade is amazing. It brings back so much detail, even from pictures that are so pixalated that even you yourself cannot recreate in your mind. Though admittedly this works best for artwork and other images like that, the artifacts and detail loss/blend for real pictures or game screenshots, especially for signs, letters and etc is pretty substantial. Pricing is not very realistic, you cannot expect average user to pay monthly subscription for imagine upscaler, we just want to enhance few wallpapers and screenshots from time to time. As always pricing plans do not take such users into account

Independent non pro here, I’ve loved luminar but it’s really the only one I have. It’s simple and I dig the results . I stay open to new stuff but I never know who’s on the payroll . This channel seems pretty good and I’m a fan

I have all 3 of the topaz image AI, and I’m very pleased with what they give me. Even though sometime it doesn’t work that well, but most of the time it works great

3:33 THAT LOVELY MECH KEYBOARD SOUND

Why are my eyes telling me Letsenhance is just a blurry mess but his eyes tell him there are details unseen to me?

@GoodRottenPeople

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. It's just a blur image.

@charimuvilla8693

4 жыл бұрын

I think he likes the smoothness but I agree that lets enhance was nowhere near as good as he says

@iracundotv

4 жыл бұрын

yea, its a tongo... o sea un tongo, pura mierda... XD

@ettorefagioli1012

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@deathblosomrules

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, too soft.

Thanks, I have never seen this kind of perfection ! Fast pace, easy to understand and just perfect way of making videos! Great quality too, top indeed. Keep going, subscribed!

Great presentation! Fast; to the point; informative; and no bs introduction - you immediately jumped in knowing we all need it fast. Good karma to you, my friend!

Bro! This is the most comprehensive and unbiased review I have seen. It opened my eyes to more things than you can imagine. Thanks for taking the time to create this video so we understand our choices and make the best decision when purchasing any of these products.

I dont have money so we'll go for Four xD We are all on the same boat buddy xD

@Izztana666

4 жыл бұрын

Taha Khan over 1 million subscribers...youtube must be paying tons of money to him ....and he say no money....that’s hilarious...:)

Just a quick note that since this video has been released, Photoshop has come out with their own AI upscaling filter - the results hsve been excellent for me so far. Really great video, I appreciate the work you put into doing this comparison!

@shinozaaakiii

Жыл бұрын

Which filter is that?

@flameshana9

Жыл бұрын

I haven't heard of one either. Everyone still talks about the same "preserve details 2."

For anyone wondering, Deep Image AI also costs money now and sadly isn't fully free anymore. They've also got a 5 image limit that you get when signing up for an account. My guess is that they somehow saw *this* video and thought ''You know what, let's just make it cost money like all the other similar pages''.

@charles2241

Жыл бұрын

No, I think it was only free because it was in beta. Now you seemingly have to sign up to even have a shot at the alleged free. I didn't bother of course.

Wow!! His teaching style is fantastic! Congratulations for your work. I'm speechless! Thank you!

Gigapixel's did have some artifact issues for a short time, the latest version rocks.

@byAlexandraG

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Actually I'm likely going to get it and your comment helped me decide

@HamedEmine

3 жыл бұрын

It's MUCH MUCH more better today!

@pocarisweat_jp

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Gigapixel rarely produces any bad artifacts in the newer versions, I was surprised when I saw his results in this video.

@juliaduquette7927

3 жыл бұрын

@@pocarisweat_jp same I haven't seen any of that in the brand new version!

@uknighthuntingvision93

3 жыл бұрын

I use gigapixel (using windows 10), not only do I 6x enlarge my artwork but then at times 6x the image again and I print extremely large prints using a pro lab. No issues whatsoever so I don't really know that this chap is talking about. Maybe it is his PC that has the issue not Gigapixel. I print and sell my artwork using the software Gigapixel for on an average £300 - £500 a pop, so no complaints here.

Part of the issue with the demo of Topaz GAI is that in the demo he turned on face enhancement for that large, portrait only image. Topaz intends that setting to be used for small faces in a crowd (goodness only knows if they have a tool tip about that ....); it actually makes portraits worse if used in the way this demo is shown (by turning the face enhancement feature on for a headshot like was used to demo).

@v10moped

Жыл бұрын

WTH is GAI?

@FotomakerAcademy

Жыл бұрын

@@v10moped Gigapixel AI

this guy is very good in photoshop skill, the way he made the details explanation with simple words is outstanding. The way you talked, I know you are good in front of audience too. Salute your teaching skills

Kudos my friend. When you brought up Gigapixel I was like "damn this guy really about to throw advertisements under the table" hahah I was wrong!

Would have liked to see a comparison of the enhanced against the full res original to see how close they came if at all to true upscale.

Dear Unmesh, You help me every single time. Thanks a million - Pete

I tried Remini app free and it did some amazing jobs on some of my old family photos. I use it a lot now for old portraits and results are simply stunning... Watching this video, I could not achieve this with the two top sites listed in here imglarger and letsenhance!

This video, your tutorials, and your entire channel are so. insanely. valuable. Thank you so much, Unmesh.

Letsenhance should've been disqualified for removing eye lashes and detail🤨 Softness never looks good, unless you're a japanese pop star...

@shubhamkori23

4 жыл бұрын

Letsenhance is something like the beautyplus app on the phone 😂😂

@anomalousdelirium

4 жыл бұрын

Japanese pop star don't have eye lashes ?

@CarolineRutland

4 жыл бұрын

Japanese pop star.. - now that you point it out....that hilarious. LOL!

@user-hd4wf5gq8r

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@samacjayla3445

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more 👏

I was really surprised to see Gigapixel get such a low score; I’ve seen it used for a fair few upscaling mods for games with prerendered backgrounds, and naturally assumed it was the best. Thanks for setting me straight there!

Absoluetly stunning, never thinked about this process THAT way. Thank you for sharing!

Even if I wasn't studying digital media I'd listen to this man talk for hours

@tanmay_6363

2 жыл бұрын

Henlo steroid doggo 😊🐾🐾

Ranking Best to worst: 1.ImgLarger 2. Letsenhance 3. ImageUpscaler 4.Photoshop 5. DeepimageAI 6. BigJPG 7.Gigapixel

@sni3510

4 жыл бұрын

thank you brother

thank you for the detailed compair. Very handful! love it!

When i need to learn something and i find out theres a tutorial of yours, man, i get happy! haha You are awesome!

@Aquamarianna

3 жыл бұрын

lol same!

Thank you so much! You have amazing tutorials, I find out so many useful things from you. I love how you're so passionate about what you do, that it's impossible not get interested in creating my own stuff :)

@nataliaturner4845

2 жыл бұрын

Same! Photoshop has such a steep learning curve for me, but he is the best teacher 🥰

How come you missed Genuine Fractals or ON1 stuff which has been an age old plugin for PS. Deliberate or not worth it?

@xq9g505

3 жыл бұрын

what

@AlienSexGod

3 жыл бұрын

Becuase they clearly suck!

@misternikon

3 жыл бұрын

Agree with you 1000%

@tosvus

3 жыл бұрын

It's not using AI. It tries to solve the missing pieces by using fractals. While pretty good, they don't compare to a real AI solution which looks at similar pictures (thousands or millions) and basically steals detail from those.

@YunethAlwis

3 жыл бұрын

@@tosvus yes

I would love for you to redo this in 2022. I think there are more software and the old software have advanced in performance. AlienSkin BlowUp would be nice to see compared too

this video is actually very informative. thanks for sorting everything out!

He: "LetsEnhance is clearly better", me: Leaving....

@poosasaikumar4856

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@wakizashiyoshikawa6926

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!

@thehighwayman78

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. Let's enhance was way too smooth and lost too much detail

@finnrogue9435

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, I was like byeee

@ElmoPlayss

3 жыл бұрын

same letsenchance was worse than all other ones

And I literally just bought Gigapixel yesterday! TBO, I didn't notice any horizontal artifacts, and the results are quite impressive compared to Photoshop.

@emanu1674

4 жыл бұрын

Gigapixel is the best, the artifacts are probably his fault by not adjusting the settings properly

@dfikar

4 жыл бұрын

@@emanu1674 I agree. I love Gigapixel. I just did a comparison with a 4X upscale of one of my own landscape images with Gigapixel vs. Lets Enhance and the latter was laughably bad compared to Gigapixel. Oh, and I have never had the banding problem he has had with the Topaz product.

Very useful comparison. Thank you. For faces alone I'm sticking with Remini on my iPhone. Sure it doesn't do other parts of the image but it's free for 5 images a day and there's no size limitation.

I use ML upscale on Pixelmator Pro on an M1 iMac. It’s superb, and uses the M1 16 ML hardware cores to render upscales. On intel this takes 55 seconds, on M1 it takes 2 seconds.

@xsleep1

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Would have been nice if he had linked his original photo so we could use other apps (like Pixelmator) to see what it can do.

12:05 Well, I enjoyed the video so much that I Liked it twice! ;)

With Gigapixel I have noticed a difference between CPU and GPU rendering. Also that artifact is more than likely caused by the face enhancement feature, which seems to be a new feature.

@tosvus

3 жыл бұрын

I have a probably 18 month old version and it does have face enhancement, and works flawlessly. Could be they introduced bugginess, or maybe as you and others suggest, certain gpu assisted rendering is causing it. I run a RTX 3090 with the latest drivers and had no issue as mentioned.

@NonLegitNation2

Жыл бұрын

@@tosvus yeah I'm wondering if it's his GPU that caused the artifacts. I've been using GigaPixel for years with no problems but I have had problems in the past using Topaz's Video Enhancer AI. If I had my GPU overclocked too much then i would get major artifacting in the processed VEAI videos. I have also noticed that sometimes if I upscale an image way too much using GigaPixel it will add lines to the entire image, but only upscaling 4x shouldn't have done that with his image.

@derAtze

Жыл бұрын

@@NonLegitNation2 I've noticed the lines too. Did you come around any fix or reason dor it so far?

@NonLegitNation2

Жыл бұрын

@@derAtze I think it may just be that the program doesn't have enough information to work with on lower res images. I've only noticed the lines when upscaling low resolution images and thats usually only if enlarging x6 or bigger. But if you start out with a high res image for example 2000 x 4000 and enlarge 6 times then the enlarged image looks fine. On lower res images the lines may just be the program pixelating the image.

Again, so good..THE BEST CHANNEL for Image Postproduction!

15:22 I watched 3 20 second non-skipable ads bro

Awesome tutorial as always :) You are next level guy 😊

Can you do one on monitor calibration or something like that so photo look same on monitor , mobile, print . Thanks in advance

@ricardogomes1038

4 жыл бұрын

You have hardware for that. And its as easy as plug and play ;)

@ricardogomes1038

4 жыл бұрын

@@garvsabbarwal3000 That doesnt mean all devices (monitor, mobile, print) will look the same. sRGB is a colour space, not an ICM profile. Calibration on all devices is needed to make an image look the same everywhere.

@infinityTime.

4 жыл бұрын

@@garvsabbarwal3000 i know that ( color sapce) I edit photo in Adobe RGB 1998 but to export i convert to sRGB i know all that still it look different i have nvidia GeForce gt710 graphic card and hdmi 1.4 port i set display to sRGB and much more in graphic card Ricardo is right even after all sometime pic doesn't look same

@infinityTime.

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricardogomes1038 can you send me your e mail address?

@infinityTime.

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricardogomes1038 i can't afford any hardware or color calibration device like spyder etc.

This is an old review of December 2019. Please provide an updated review on this, as Gigapixel AI has undergone a major update and does a fantastic job. Also it can be customised to a particular image very well. Another note: according to me the online app "Letsenhance" in the end was clearly ranked far too high with its loss of eyelashes of the example image. Other than that it is a good comparison and very useful video and some great suggestions what aspects to look at when judging the results.

@crystalwizard

Жыл бұрын

letsenhance has also improved. since last year.

@rc-fannl7364

Жыл бұрын

Also Deep Image AI now wants you to login, and isn't fully free/unlimited, they have pricing now

Жыл бұрын

Also, photoshop has beta neural filters in the menu where the filter gallery is now under select. So that would be a good comparison as well.

@user-fp7nh4nt3j

Жыл бұрын

@ I compared it, it is not so good.

Жыл бұрын

@@user-fp7nh4nt3j ok thanks! I’ve been using photoshop neural filters.

Thank you for the detailed comparison.

20:04 how something that removes so much detail can be better than something that preserves the details ???? paid video?

@emanu1674

4 жыл бұрын

Probably, he also rigged Gigapixel (which is the best one) by not using the sliders correctly, auto 90% of the time gives mediocre results

@Berlin2Best

4 жыл бұрын

@@emanu1674 However he used the other services also on "auto" (without tweaks) and they didn't have such issues.

@TechnoMinarchist

4 жыл бұрын

@@Berlin2Best This is because GigaPixels auto is made for very specific image types.

@rogeriopenna9014

4 жыл бұрын

@@TechnoMinarchist That's their problem. He was comparing software on auto mode. Like... you are someone who does not want to lose time learning such software.

Hi, I use gigapixel a lot. It is weird, I never seen those lines like that. Please let us download that test image so we can compare

@ivellios_rp

4 жыл бұрын

From what I observed, the issue with banding in Topaz software tends to appear when Nvidia GPUs are used. Lots of users of Nvidia GPUs have this problem. I have an Nvidia GeForce MX 960 on my laptop and the banding lines are gone since I disabled the 'High Quality AI Models' and switched to 'Standard' ones.

@KaosK9

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivellios_rp Thanks for the input. Definitely eliminated the banding issue. High Quality AI worked for me with GPU turned off but with a significant performance hit, 36s vs 1:32 render time. When compared to normal AI, depending on area of image examined, each render (high vs normal) looked better in select areas. I also found that using Man-Made vs Natural on my system eliminated the banding but seemed to create a bit of color noise when using GPU with High Quality AI. Downside was images appeared over sharpened, especially portraits. Warrants further testing.

@stanleywtang

3 жыл бұрын

He must be using some weird GPU

@hautehussey

3 жыл бұрын

Topaz has had a lot of GPU issues in their rollout of GPU support. I recommend turning it off until they get it figured out.

Very thorough and well done comparison. Thanks for the excellent video!

Your videos are just perfect. Information, presentation, video quality, sound, lighting, background, and even your cool t-shirt :)

The whole point of having Gigapixel as an actual software on your PC is so that you can fine tune the settings before conversion. With a live preview of the end result. Not using this leads to sub par results. What were you expecting?

@LowryYT

4 жыл бұрын

a better result than 40 dollars per month

@bilatungdulang9708

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, i had used gigapixel with trial account. On my opinion gigapixel must on first or second position. Gigapixel can take best quality if this man setting prefences first.

Great video, I agree with the ranking, except for LetsEnhance, I would put it in the last position. Leaves the image very washed.

Dude, I love your videos. They are very informative. Thanks for making all these available for free.

Great video, super insightful and easy to follow. It would be really nice to see an updated version of this video with so many new tools available out there (AI-powered as well).

I was expecting him to compare the up-scaled to the original image.:'(

@romanromero5099

4 жыл бұрын

the original is always better.... comparing to it is waste of time

@kaioviniciusdutrasouza9388

4 жыл бұрын

@@romanromero5099 But I thing that the point is to see how closer to the original it was.

@romanromero5099

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaioviniciusdutrasouza9388 that wasn't the point of the video... the point was to compare the results of different solutions.... I don't need to see original I already know it is much better

@brucesterlowden140

4 жыл бұрын

Roman Romero I’m sure he forgot to reference the Hi Res version. It would have been very interesting to test his ranking against that as the gold standard.

@selengames1036

4 жыл бұрын

be sure that if he compared the original vs LetsEnhance he would say that LetsEnhance is better :D

I don't get why letsenhance got the 2nd place.

@JoeBlow-yt1lp

4 жыл бұрын

It removed the eyelashes. Automatic disqualify for me.

@JohnLex

4 жыл бұрын

@@JoeBlow-yt1lp IKR, it removed more than that.

@youuuuuuuuuuutube

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I was "facepalm" multiple times, especially when he said "of course letsenhance is better", lol. Removing details and making the image soft is NOT better.

@JanKosowski

4 жыл бұрын

That the moment when he compares Letsenhance to DeepImageai/bigjpg and says "letsenhance is better"… what?

@Koi-Koi-Koi

4 жыл бұрын

why did he not test the software "PhotoZoom pro 8" which is for me the best.

Dude great video. I think you should regularly continue this annually or every 6 months according to the new products at market. And a humble tip, at the end of the video, pick the most important a few details such as, eyes, hairs, etc. then create a table for the most promising 3 software as a final comparison. But anyway, good work brother, keep it up.

I personally use the one from Zyro, since it tends to be fairly good quality and is completely free to use for as many images as you would like.

Excellent video, exactly what I wanted! You earned a subscription. Thank you 🙂 I do a lot of colorization and restoring of old images. I'd love to see a video on those please. I soften shoot in poor lighting, resulting in unnatural skin colors, any advice on that besides using white balance? Remini does a reasonably good job, but it's pricing is crazy.

Thanks for the comparision but I won't judge based on one sample photos. Different software may have different algorithms and may perform better in different cases.

This video solved my problem..I was super confused and now I know which one to go for! Thanks a lot! You are awesome!

Thanks for this! I am an editorial designer and i've slept through the advances in img upscaling. I used details 2.0 in all those years. I just tested with a REALY BAD image and *jeez*, ImgLarger is so much better than details2.0 !!

"These are my personal opinion and preferences and yours might be different and it's absolutrly fine because thats what makes all of us unique." I lloved this line and I am going to use it at the end of every arguement ;)

This is an interesting test and comparision. Thank you. But my learnings are total different. This demo is about a portrait/face close up. If you choose "normal" photos with people anywere in the picture all AI image upscaler has the same problem: face gets destroyed. Also your prefered IMGLAGER with ranking 1 damage in nearly each case the faces; same as e.g. with Topaz Gigapixel. I don't know why the providers don't attend/react on this common problem since years. The solutions are long time on the market, but there are no improvements/updates in order to deal with faces. What features are missing in each AI photo and video enhancement tool are manual adjustment sliders for sharpness, deblocking, denoising and get rid of artifacts. In order to prevent face damage it need a mask tool with manual adjustment slider. Today the AI enhancement tools for photos and videos are only usable for landscape footage without any people in the picture. I don't see any sign from software providers to improve their software and get rid of face damage problems.

This video was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you

i paused the video at 3:22 going to the link then trying it, yeah its cool! my original photo was 1152 x 694 get upscaled and increased detail to 4608 x 2776 THANKS BRO! it worked like a charm

Although my pc is broken i still watch your tutorials

Gigapixel was amazing in the little preview window but left artifacts after full processing. However, judging from your results, I think I'd have just put Gigapixel at the top and called the artifacts a cost of upscaling. Then photoshop them out.

Thanks for sharing! I've been using Nero Image Upscaler and I found it useful too! And most important of all, it's free!

Thanks Unmesh, appreciate your time and effort. You've set it straight, i use a few of these products in my photos.

this is some serious studying you’re doing for us

For some reason, Gigapixel AI seems to have a problem with outputting JPG images, so to remove those weird artifacts, try to enable "Convert File Format" and choose PNG. the result will be much better (better than ImgLarger in my experience).

Wow, that was very thorough. Thanks for this very useful video!

Great video, for amateur modding for video games this has been really helpful. Thanks a lot

poor gigapixel, seems to work just fine for me

Gigapixel is evolving very much, Latest version makes absolute magic with some photos!

@Vicvines

3 жыл бұрын

your comment was 10 months ago and I just bought gigapixel tonight after watching Anthony Morganti and I really hope now 10 months later it is even more evolved

@kikogod

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vicvines it's still really good, but with the rescent update I find it slower than before

Excellent comparison! Congratulations!

Thank you for all of your work! I always appreciate it.

Who agrees to me that he overrated that "LetsEnhance"??? I think he should have put it in the bottom just like he did with Gigapixel, I don't think that crap deserves te 2nd place...

@leticiali

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, LetsEnhance clearly lost the lower eye lashes! He clearly screwed up or he is trying to promote it!

@laurahelenaxou1834

4 жыл бұрын

@@leticiali For sure!!!

@nawarz2181

4 жыл бұрын

that shield maiden be like: *GIVE ME MY EYELASHES BACK! YOU FOOLS!*

@Firebrand911

4 жыл бұрын

@@leticiali It has Noise Reduction on by Default -- which skewed all the results. It does look nice for soft pretty faces -- but would ruin any other image. But the rest of his list was spot on. I think if he ran the test again, using Noise Reduction controls, it might be more or less valid. But yeah, LetsEnhance is middle of the road.

@swapnilchaudhari1855

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

sorry but i cant help to ask myself: how is that a dude with such perfectly trimmered beard, mustache and hair has this mess as eybrows?

@mrdeadbird1479

4 жыл бұрын

That shit makes him unforgettable!

@DrR1pper

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrdeadbird1479 lmao...true.

@Yveldi

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrdeadbird1479 for me it's more like unbearable, and unforgettable as the result of the mental trauma.

@kadinhomustaine

4 жыл бұрын

That's a "eyestache" There is nothing wrong man lol

@TheHDReleaser

4 жыл бұрын

its his icon

I am so glad you made this comparison because I was about to add Topaz Lab's Gigapixel AI to my collection of software purchases from them. I have found those lines showing up in many of their processing and have been disappointed. There are a lot of items in Topaz Labs I do love, but most of the time I find myself going to several of their plugins to fix something from the previous plugin image result. I don't like how they constantly come out with "new and better" to where you are constantly purchasing (they should be offering more updates instead). But anyway, I do use them a lot and work with what I have. In conclusion, after watching your comparison, I decided not to spend the $79. Thank you!

Brilliant work! Thanks for handling the test for me, I had been wondering about buying Gigapixel AI. Very well explained.

You are too much lovely, you paid for us. We, specially me, I'm very much thankful.❤ But, don't be worry. We'll always be here beside you. Have great days!❤

In my opinion you have not done justice to Gigapixel. First of all, sadly, Topaz sometimes produces updates without properly conducting the beta testing and horrible stuff like the horizontal lines. This is inexcusable. However, I have get excellent results with Gigapixel. I never got the horizontal lines, as far as I can remember, and I have used Gigapixel since the very first version. Your choice of settings was not ideal. First, you should never choose the Faces option, unless the faces are really very, very small in the photo. Second, I never just use the Auto Settings, but instead always test each image (or one or two samples in a whole image series) and adjust the noise and sharpening parameters. So, my suggestion to you is get the free update to your version, and follow my suggestions. In any case I found the comparison fascinating, I've never heard of most of these web based upscaling services that are mostly free. I always enjoy all of your tutorials and am very grateful for the SUPERB job that you do with each and every one. Thanks a million, Dan

@studiog2682

4 жыл бұрын

I've never gotten lines in my Gigapixel AI processing either. That may have been a temporary issue in an old version. One thing I and other users have discovered though: in preferences, you can choose to have either your CPU or GPU process your image. CPU is a lot slower but gives more pleasing results with more detail and fewer color artifacts. There's another contender on the block, as of yesterday: Pixelmator Pro now has AI image upscaling. A side-by-side comparison using their own sample images puts Gigapixel on top.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to do this comparison

Thank you. Your video is super helpful!

In some jpg, Gigapixel AI has still “red stripes bug” when “Use maximum Quality AI Models” and GPU Acceleration is enabled.

I’d like to also recommend Waifu2x. It’s been around for awhile. Free and great for artwork.

@nekokna

4 жыл бұрын

i use that one! its good!

@Noblelox

4 жыл бұрын

That only does 2x though.

@STONJAUS_FILMS

4 жыл бұрын

@@Noblelox not on the free desktop version

You're so awesome! Thank you for all the content you put out there, it's always what I'm looking for!

That was really helpful, thanks!