Does anyone have any experience with Topaz Gigapixel? I have a low res image that would be great to upscale. I’ve tried a couple of AI image enhancers, Let’s Enhace and Waifu2x, and gotten mediocre results at best. I am not opposed to subscribing to Gigapixel for a month if the results are worth it, but, based on my experience with the others, it seems like AI image upscaling is oversold.
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Yeah I’ve used it.
It does a pretty decent job. Up to a point. Really depends on the imagery though, what kind of detail and what subject matter.
If taken too far, human features become “plastic-like” and lose a sense of realism. Intricate designs, like tattoos can lose their integrity too.
They’ve started requiring purchased credits in order to use their online rendering engines. I think with a subscription you get 400 credits. I did an image last week where I tried to use my computer to render and had to stop it after 1/2 hour. I used the 3 credits and it was done in under 3 minutes.
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I have a headshot that is 1.367" tall at 300 ppi. In an ideal world, I’d have something in the range of 7” tall at 300 ppi; I could settle for 4” tall at 300 ppi.
Can photoshop not do it?
Called generative upscale or something
You can try to use this program (For windows, mac or linux) : https://upscayl.org/
I hopes this helps !
If you aren’t sure what you want to do, you could join NightCafe. I can help out with credits if you do. Their upscaling is really good. Once you generate an image I can “tip” you some credits to play around 
They all cost credits and some are more expensive than others.
I’ll give you my link so I’ll know if you join up and can find you 
Photoshop 27.0 has a built-in Topaz Gigapixel plugin.
Recently, I used that plugin to successfully upscale a photo of a person from 1236x928 to 4944x3832.
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I appreciate the additional tips. I tried Upscayl and Photoshop’s tools. I already have a Night Cafe account. In reality, they all are about the same quality. I’ll roll with what I have.
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Couple days ago i made some nice pictures with gemini ai. You can try the free version
I made some when my mind and imagination. Completely free.
Anyone having trouble with getting generative upscale in PS to work? My coworker and I seem to be getting an error for this, and I can’t get Topaz and Photoshop to talk to each other. Upscaling in the actual Topaz Photo desktop app seems to work as normal though. I think maybe there’s a bug.
How many Adobe AI generator credits do you have? It takes something like 30-35 of them to get Topaz to do anything from within Photoshop. And it isn’t an intuitive interface. I just use the Topaz desktop app now.
The fact that the standalone Topaz app works fine is actually a useful clue: it points to the Photoshop bridge rather than the Topaz engine itself, so it is worth separating two different things that get mixed up here.
Photoshop’s own Generative Upscale and the Topaz plugin inside Photoshop are not the same tool and do not draw on the same credits. If the error appears with Photoshop’s built-in upscale, check your generative credits first, as PrintDriver mentioned, since that route is credit-based. If the error is with the Topaz plugin, credits are not the likely cause.
For the plugin route, the usual culprits after a Photoshop update are version mismatch and a disabled plugin: reinstall or update the Topaz plugin to match your current Photoshop version, confirm it is enabled under the Plugins menu, and try it on a flattened copy of the image rather than a Smart Object or a 32-bit file, which can both trip up plugin handoffs. If both you and your coworker hit the same error on different machines at the same time, that also points to a broken plugin release or a Photoshop update, in which case rolling the plugin back one version, or just using the desktop app and bringing the upscaled file back into Photoshop, is the sensible workaround until a fix lands.