Congratulations Topaz! Bonus: MidJourney native scaling It lets the AI actually do the work instead of offering a steering wheel. TopazLabs Gigapixel AI just did it with a little more finesse. All the software bits I tested worked and did what they were supposed to do. They’ve done it again! TopazLabs won the AI sharpening challenge, and now they’ve also won the upscaling battle. On the flip side, this tool offers a great level of manual control to those who want it, and it caters to specifics, allowing upscaling for certain purposes such as printing.

The tools here are great if you know exactly what your output needs to be, but it’s tricky for someone as simple as me who just wants to make a photo bigger. With a little extra hustle, this will be a great image, but here’s my gripe: Their entire range is incredibly powerful, and the result from this tool was not dissimilar to that from Luminar Upscale AI – There are a lot of preserved detail and blanks filled in, but it does feel ‘crunchy’ once again. ON1 Resize AI claims to be the ‘industry standard,’ according to their website marketing. I used the automatic settings for the test, not adjusting any sharpening or noise sliders. Here’s the original photo: –Īnd here are the details for those who want to see it with their own eyes. I enlarged the image to six times its size for each test, resulting in a 3072 x 3072 pixels image. An image this small is a great subject for this test because we’ll easily see what’s going on in the upscaling and what the AI is doing. It’s tiny! This is about half the width of an Instagram photo. The image we are starting with is 512 x 512 pixels at 72 DPI. I reached out to AI image expert Micah Burke who created this scene for the test using MidJourney, an AI text-to-image generator using Discord as an interface. Naturally, I decided to use an AI-generated image to test and compare AI photo upscaling. Another use for upscaling that is coming to the forefront in our industry is AI art.

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