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.
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.
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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