Generative Upscale now in Photoshop Beta!

[Noelle5D22]

We are excited to share that Generative Upscale is now in Photoshop Beta! Powered by Firefly, you can now increase the resolution, preserve detail and remove artifacts while increasing the size of an image. Functionality is limited for this release as we continue to test and refine the model, but we are eager to learn from users early on! Some things to note about the feature:

1. Size and ratio limitations: Max output is currently limited to 4096 pixels and/or a max 1:4 ratio for width and height.
2. Low-resolution: This model is best suited for low resolution images
3. Output: Output is limited by size and ratio. If your projected output exceeds these limits, the button to upscale will be grayed out. Otherwise, upscaled images will be output to a new document. Note that if an image’s projected output is beyond the max limit, try using Image Size (Image > Image Size) to reduce the original size of the image before upscaling
4. Credits: in the Beta period, Generative Upscale will not deduct credits
5. Incompatible Color Modes: Indexed, Multichannel, Bitmap, Duotone, Grayscale. If an image is in one of the non-supported color modes above, convert to RGB before using Generative Upscale. To do this, go to Image > Mode > RGB Color
6. 32-bit is currently not supported (as with all Generative features)

How to test the feature:

1. Download the latest beta application (Beta 26.10 or later)
2. Open the feature from Image > Generative Upscale
3. Select desired output scale (2x, 3x, or 4x)
4. If output is within the limits of the feature, select upscale
5. Upscaled image will be output in a new document

Let us know what you think!

[F1Vanc]

I've updated Photoshop Beta to 26.9, but I cannot get harmonize or generative upscale to work.  Harmonize does not show up on the contextual taskbar and Gen Upscale is nowhere to be found.  Not under the image dropdown menu.  Edit dropdown menu has generate image and generate workspace.  I've updated my iMac desktop and my MacBook Pro and the problem is the same on both.  I have plenty of generative credits left.  There must be a setting somewhere, but I can't find anything in "settings".  Any suggestions appreciated.

[Noelle5D22]

Apologies, there was a typo in the post. Download the beta application version 26.10!

[robertw44482386]

Appears not to be available yet.

[Lara29727490d8dv]

Hi, I'm not able to find the Beta apps on Adobe Creative Cloud desktop. When I click on "Get started" when searching Beta apps it always appears a pop-up message of "Something went wrong"

[F1Vanc]

Thanks Noelle!  I downloaded and everything works great!  

Thanks again!

[robertw44482386]

Same for me, I downloaded the latest beta as prompted by CC (July 29) and I see neither of these features, grayed out or otherwise.

[erreenne]

For now, it's not very exciting; the images are still quite blurry, and the details are missing...

[Chemilinski]

So funny that literally a couple days ago, I was looking online and in Photoshop for a generative upscale feature, and now I see it's been added! It wasn't there of course, so I used your existing feature, 'Preserve Details 2.0', in the Image Size dialogue to upscale the image I wanted to use, from 1080x1920 to 2160x3840. The result was very decent!

So I just downloaded the beta client and loaded in the same FHD image and used the generative upscale feature to upsale it 2x.
Horrible. It looks like I stretched the image in Paint, and called it a day. There's no preservation of detail, there's clear artefacting.. I'm truly baffled! Have the engineers forgottent to turn the feature on?
I mean, keep at it, I guess. I don't mean to trample on the work of the people that, I assume, have tried to bring this AI feature to PS. But gosh, at a base level, aim for it to be better than the feature you have already shipped that serves the same purpose.

[drtonyb]

This is so bad. The competitors must be laughing their socks off.

[drtonyb]

I exported a shot from LrC to Full HD size (1920 x 1080) as a JPEG.

Opened the JPEG in Photoshop 2025.11 (beta). I used Generative Upscale to upsize by 2x to 4K size (3840 x 2160) and also made a copy resized by 200% using Preserve Details 2.0. In the side by side crop show below, on the left is the Generative Upscale version and on the right is the Image Resize version.

 

The detail is obliterated in the Generative Upscale version: look at the bird flying overhead, it is just a blob; look at the pelican; look at the fisherman's net; spots have been added where there were none in the original shot. It's a horrible result which I am now seeing far too often in Generative output. It has become so bad, it is at a point where it's generally useless to me.

To me, it seems that Adobe has completely dropped the ball.

[MicahBurke]

Give it time. It would probably be more useful if there were a prompt that could better translate the pixels.  But without something telling the AI what the object is, it's just a blob. 

[Chemilinski]

The prompt is irrelevant, PS' genAI is hamstrung by not having the required pixel output to make this generative upscale remotely decent.
I read online that it has an upper bound of ~1000px, and given the low-quality output I've seen on this thread, that seems to be unadjusted for this feature? It begs the question what the point of any of it is, and how the upscale can be achieved within such constraints.
I imagine you would have to upscale your image in chunks and then stitch it together manually? That's perhaps what Photoshop itself should be doing for us, but alas.
Or perhaps trying to use the current generative technology for this purpose just isn't appropriate, and some completely different solution would be necessary. One which doesn't regenerate the image and try to make a close facsimile of it. 

[Thomas26101470wt3o]

Pixel limit needs to be like 5x higher

[Jena31657898le31]

For the last couple of days, generative upscale has been working GREAT! Newest version of PS Beta. Now, when I try to use it today, I get the message '1004: Server not responding.' What is going on? I really need to use this. It improves my product photographs immensely. 

[Jena31657898le31]

Here's pics of trying to do the upscale and the error message.

[PS-Guru]

I am getting the same error. It was working yesterday but today it's broken. I have updated today to the newest version of Photoshop Beta but the problem still exists. I also noticed that instead of there being 2x, 3x and 4x options, 3x is now missing.  As this problem started with a previous version that had been working and continues with the updated version, would I be right in assuming it's an internal Adobe server problem rather than software related?

[Jena31657898le31]

it started working again this morning. Yay! 🙂 But I don't have 3X either, that's ok, for my bracelet pics I do 2x anyway. Is yours working now?

[drtonyb]

I've given it time. I'm not getting any errors, 3x has gone from the upscaling options, but the result is no different. It is still dreadful.

[*_Limey_*]

I too am able to use the upscaling now and 3x is still missing.

[Jena31657898le31]

That's too bad. Mine works great for my intended purpose. Here's a picture. Notice how the after is so much clearer and the beads are defined. I love this new feature for my bracelets. 

[*_Limey_*]

Looks much clearer. Glad it's working for you.

[Leon Gross]

Just downloaded the beta as I need to upscale some very old product photos that I can't get any better photos of. Attached left to right is 2x via Image Size, 2x Neural Filters Super Zoom, and 2x Gen Upscale. Have to say I was pretty dissapointed with the result, maybe slightly better than Image Size, but the Gen Upscale is not what I was expecting. I'll play around a bit more with it, maybe reduce JPG artifacts first, but certainly nothing impressive.

[Jena31657898le31]

I did generative upscale on your middle image,

And I think it looks much clearer and crisper, IMO. I wonder if mine works better than others? It works great on my end for my bracelets. 

[Jena31657898le31]

well, that image is very small so you can't really see the difference well, sorry.