Upscaling with Topaz Gigapixel AI

[Deleted member 1121028]

Was reading

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and tried this and that
You can get a 'free' copy of Topaz Gigapixel AI

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Great thing you can process multilple files.

blablabla, here the result->

1080:


upscaled 4k:


Not sure it brings justice but it's quite good tho.
Could be great for various thing (from textures to animation, and money milking for 'easy' 4k version )

 

[recreation]

I've seen several results from topaz and none of them stands up to both the nvidia and intel denoizer imo.
That being said, I do look a lot closer at image quality than most ppl would ever do.

 

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none of them stands up to both the nvidia and intel denoizer imo.

lol what? It's quite far from what it does but why not.
Bring result here I'm quite skeptikal (no offense tho).

Don't mind I'm retarded

 

[recreation]

lol what? It's quite far from what it does but why not.
Bring result here I'm quite skeptikal (no offense tho).

I'm talking about the denoizing part in Topaz obviously^^
The results I have seen also have been sharpend by Topaz which doesn't look great on denoized images.

 

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I'm talking about the denoizing part in Topaz obviously^^
The results I have seen also have been sharpend by Topaz which doesn't look great on denoized images.

In fact you are right.
Testing a bit more this morning, with a quite detailed hand palm.
Not as good as I first expected. More obvious if you compare similar result in PS/Lightroom.

 

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The more I test the least I understand the AI pattern behavior .
It's really like a russian roulette.
Tried very different renders (low/high exposure, close/no details, noisy/clean), and I have no idea how it works.
Even with blur/denoise at 0 (it will does whatever it wants btw, recreation was right lmao), it's mostly impossible to predict the outcome.

The thing is, it can provide really good result and terrible one at the same time.
Render review :

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. Might test directly on texture next week (or not).