Upscaling within Photoshop

Ha! That's funny. I just took a random Google thumbnail of an owl, and never compared with the highres original.

genAI definitely permits itself a level of 'interpretive creative freedom'. Still, it does come quite close. Almost as a digital painting version of the original. A 'cleaner' looking one. The number of toes is woefully wrong (again).

Thanks for posting the original photo.

@Jen ShipleyIt's done with open source software, but I was respectfully asked not to mention it on these forums anymore. and I will hold myself to that. 🙂

Besides, it wouldn't help you, because it requires a reasonably beefy GPU (video card) or Mac M2/M3 with a good amount of RAM to work.

Rather than post my own suggestion, I will post here.  This is what I need as well.  The image resize just creates a larger blurry document.  I am making shower curtains and blankets.  I am using ai to create seamless patterns from my art, then I take them into procreate, fresco and photoshop on ipad to edit, improve and fix all the weird stuff.  Or I just make the artwork from scratch on ipad.  If I were to create it large enough for a shower curtain from scratch it would be so slow and my tablet would crash repeatedly.  In those cases upscaling after it's finished would be better.  I tried upscaling in psd ipad using image resize and the quality is abysmal.  Instead I use a free service dgb.lol - it's really buggy.  It takes a really long time , tends to crash multiple times, often the pages won't load right, and it has annoying ads (that are probably why the page crashes), plus you have 24 hours to download or it deletes (which has happened when too many people use it at the same time.)  It has a starting file size limit of 10 mb so sometimes my starting file size is too big for this service.  Despite the bugs and limitations, the results are wonderful.  You can select whether you want the lines smoothed (cartoon/illustration) or detailed/noisy (among other options) and the results are lightyears ahead of what image resize can do.  It utilizes ai to interpret what information should be there and adds it in.  You could either add this feature to photoshop, or make it a part of adobe capture, or its own simple upscaling app.  

PS.  I am using photoshop ipad, and selected that in the menu when found this post.  It appears people are talking about the desktop version.  I have not tried the new ai feature in desktop...didn't know it existed. I actually was without a computer for nearly a year, so now that I have one, I will figure out how to do it.

Save as TIFF, open with camera RAW, use Super Resolution. I just did that yesterday for one of our VP's who had low-res phone pictures he needed to use. Came out great.

Lol this is a very creative upscale! Owl went to the feather salon 🙂

In short - it only works in the full ACR processor, not in the ACR filter from within Photoshop. That's just a filter on individual layers, after all.

Another way is to save as TIFF, which can be opened directly in the ACR processor.

But the simplest of all is to use Lightroom Classic.

Hi!

I have been able to upsize jpg files quite well using Camera Raw -- but as Conrad said below it is a little tricky to find. If you open a jpg using Filter>Camera Raw, the Enhance option is not even visible in the menu, but here is a trick that I learned.

In your Open dialog box, select the image you want to enhance. Once you click on the file name, such as xxx.jpg, down at the bottom of the panel you will see that in the Format drop down menu, it says jpg. Change that to Camera Raw, and click ok. Once the jpg opens in Camera Raw, right click on the image, and the Enhance Feature will be available. Then you can use it on that specific jpg.

I find that it has worked well for images I needed to enlarge.

The key is to remember to change the Format dropdown menu and not the Enable drop down.

Michelle

Yes, I agree - it doesn't look quite right. Still, impressive. I mean: from a 150px thumbnail? Good enough for many purposes.

(Did you notice the tiny frog creature that the genAI added? 😉 )

My first reaction to that owl picture is that it looks fake.

It is impressive. 

No argument there. 

But … the result is not exactly a photograph. 

With any non-documentary photography (like artistic, certain advertising, …) this does not matter but in other contexts it could lead to problems yet. 

Just be wary of the »deblur license plate in security camera footage«-kind of issues.