Upscaling within Photoshop

[philippepetitpas]

Having the ability to perform upscaling within Photoshop would be a fantastic application. I am an editor of illustrated books and we often encounter the problem of wanting to enlarge a drawing, but the printed resolution limits us. I am familiar with the Super Zoom tool in Neural Filters, but it's not the same because that function involves cropping, which is not ideal. It would be a tremendous asset to incorporate this feature into Photoshop.

Greetings and thank you.

[D Fosse]

@rayek.elfin 

Yes, that's precisely what worries me too, and it's not a trivial worry. This is potentially extremely dangerous in more ways than I like to think about. It can be a stick of dynamite in the wrong hands.

I feel we're hostages of technology in this. If it's possible, someone will do it, and then the rest will panic at the idea of being left behind. Never mind the consequences. The argument that "it's here to stay" is precisely the problem.

And don't even get me started on all those who seem to be convinced typing a prompt is genuine artistic expression. Boggles the mind.

I was skeptical at first, and getting more and more so as I see how it's being used. I'm convinced this whole AI hype is going to backfire on us all.

[Lumigraphics]

We are just seeing the start of this technology. Are you old enough to remember when doctors had radio phones in their cars? When computer networking was Novell Token Ring? Now, with huge advances in battery tech and minaturization and commercial build-out of cellular, we have wireless networks fast enough to stream two-way video at several times NTSC quality, to handheld pocket computers. As an example.

AI is going to ride hardware advances until it will pretty much be real.

[D Fosse]

So? That's not an argument for anything, that's just giving up.

By the same argument, should we just roll over and let rich people use CRISPR technology to create designer babies? Because that will happen unless it's put under some control (which, thankfully, it currently is).

[willcampbell7]

Use Photoshop "Preserve Details 2.0". The results are great. I have a short script that makes it easier. Here's a video about it:

https://youtu.be/AkeY1O2SYP0

There's a link in the description to download the code.

[itsmetho]

@rayek.elfinyeah you're right but there's a difference between gen AI and something like Topaz which has the purpose to recreate original image as closely as possible.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

»yeah you're right but there's a difference between gen AI and something like Topaz which has the purpose to recreate original image as closely as possible.«

Not necessarily quite enough, I am afraid.

In some cases the upscaling could result in essentially completely made up »units of meaning« – like faces, license plates, …

[itsmetho]

@c.pfaffenbichler 

Not necessarily quite enough, I am afraid.

In some cases the upscaling could result in essentially completely made up »units of meaning« – like faces, license plates, …

It's all upscale, only the technique is different. Furthermore it's semantics and it depends on de definition of upscale one uses.

AI making mistakes doesn't render the good results bad. It's not helpful comparing Topaz to typical Gen AI tools. There's no prompting, it's made to take what is there and enhance it, make it bigger with fresh pixels. That's such a huge technical improvement. Literally, who cares what it is and how it works, I'm getting my render or photo 6x bigger, super sharp and virtually indistinguishable from the source image. You can tell me that's not the case but I'm sitting here looking at it.. Something that is impossible to achieve in PS, not even close. What else would I want 🙂

[c.pfaffenbichler]

@itsmetho , You seem to misunderstand my point and contradict a claim that i did not make.

I am not claiming that the results are not sharp images that look like photographs and therefore can be used for certain purposes, I am pointing out that details do not necessarily represent the actual details at the time of the original photographic capture and could lead to problems if the images were still considered "photographs" in a legal context for example.