Upscaling within Photoshop

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, the algorithm decided to add that little frog-like creature.

I completely agree that this upscale is fun, but not to be taken too seriously.

As a matter of fact, the more I play with genAI imagery, the more I realize it is all a bit of a red herring, really. At least in its current state.

Nice for concept exploration, or assisting with boring image editing tasks such as making selections or removing objects, and such. The tech industry seems to have jumped on the genAI hype train. But I am starting to wonder if this is really a solution looking for a problem.

What does worry me is that I see more and more genAI imagery posted to social media channels, and 99% of users have absolutely no clue that the images are fake and genAI created. And what REALLY worries me is that most of those images have glaringly obvious glitches and mistakes that are typical for genAI imagery. And still people are utterly convinced about the realness.

What's that frog doing, and why does it have a tail ??

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Wouldn't a real owl be pouncing on the frog in the corner instead of looking straight into the camera?

Jane

Right, excellent point. AI has no understanding of the content. It's just a parrot, repeating what it has seen elsewhere.

»You say it like it's a bad thing «

@itsmetho , if the technology should be used by people who don’t understand the process it seems possible for someone to be misidentified based on an AI-»upscaled« image.

Could be a made-up license plate that matches an existing one, could be a face invented based on a few original image-pixels that resembles an actual person’s. 

@itsmetho 

I'm just stating a fact. This isn't upscaling. It's a whole new AI-generated image. Those are two different things.

 That's not upscaling. That's an AI-generated new image.  @D Fosse 

You say it like it's a bad thing 🙂  But I think new pixels is why it works so well. In most cases Topaz gives me significantly better results, and fast. It's amazing how I can now render (3d) at 4K and create social media deliverables and a billboard from it. Saves time & money.

Photoshop is a very robust app, but sometimes another tool does a better job (now) and that's fine. When I have to denoise my 3D renders in post I send it from After Effects to Davinci Resolve as DR does it best for me and in the blink of an eye. Working in Resolve and I need serious slow motion, I send the clip to AI bc it can do up to 16x slomo ultra smooth (but slow).

@tmyusuf74  That's not upscaling. That's an AI-generated new image.

If upscaling is inevitable, Photoshop has an AI-based algorithm too: Super Resolution in LrC and ACR. Although it gives best results with raw files, it also works with RGB files.

Photoshop has a built-in upscaling function, though it might not be as prominent as the Neural Filters. Or you can consider exploring third-party plugins like Topaz Gigapixel AI, which uses AI technology for more advanced upscaling with minimal quality loss. "It successfully enhanced image detail and texture in low-resolution shots, such as converting an 800 x 600 pixel image into a 4800 x 3600 pixel image with minimal loss of quality."  https://bijutoha.com/blog/best-photo-enlarger-list-without-losing-quality/

I tried upscaling in psd ipad using image resize and the quality is abysmal.  Instead I use a free service

By @Jen Shipley 

One reason for that is the Image Size scaling and bounding box scaling in both iPad and desktop Photoshop use older algorithms that do not use AI and are optimized for photographic images. They probably will not produce good results upscaling patterns.

The online service you use instead works better for you because it’s AI-based. If you wanted to achieve results closer to that using Photoshop, you would want to try one of the AI-based Adobe methods I listed in my earlier reply. But they are generally not yet available in the iPad version of Photoshop, only in the Mac or Windows version.