Just a tip I picked up from another UA-cam contributor: When upscaling an image, use a combination of different ai software choices (such as GP AI and PS), then layer them in PS, mask, and brush out the parts of the image that look better on the underlying layer. Love this channel, and keep the great videos coming.
As the IT manager of a small animation studio, your statement on being upfront with pricing is spot on. When assessing options I have to create a price matrix and present it to producers. I don't have the time to submit a form, talk to a sales, agent, and sign up for a demo just to get a price. Unless someone asked for that software specifically, I am going to pass on it and move onto the next alternative.
Not related to this video but if you do have knee pain (like your username says) check out knees over toes guy here on youtube... the knee guru and his exercises will help
Very helpful video. For what it's worth, if anyone is specifically looking to upscale png images with transparency and sharp lines (illustrations), I have found BigJpg to be leagues ahead of the others. I had some tiny 256x256 Windows icons I wanted to upscale, and every single one except BigJpg produces garbage looking edges and/or weird halos, not being able to handle the transparency. Apparently bigjpg focuses on being an "anime" upscaler, so is probably trained much more on cartoon images. It actually does a good job. I haven't really tested it at all with regular images because I use Gigapixel for those. (And gigapixel also completely sucks at images with transparency)
good cmt ., tks for the review , I have just use BIGJPG for 1 day, and I really disapointed in it , but read your comment made me understand the situation, I will use it in future for right purposes
Hey Joe, just tried BigJPG for upscaling my illustration style images and I'm just blown away. I was using Gigapixel but like you said it's wayyy more impressive for those types of images! The lines are so clean and the noise reduction is just wow. Thank you!
Bro! This is the most comprehensive and unbiased review I have seen. It opened my eyes to more things than you can imagine. Thanks for taking the time to create this video so we understand our choices and make the best decision when purchasing any of these products.
Yeah, it's quite good material, but this final comparison should be added. And it's too long video - I like the step-by-step presentation, but it definitely should be beter edited (about half of it would be gone). Anyway thumbs up - I will check this channel from time to time...
@@marekkoodziejak1513 Dłuższe wideo = więcej slotów na reklamy ;-) sporo kanałów tak działa. A z Gigapixelem jest problem, mianowicie ów banding pojawia się w momencie gdy upscale'ujemy obrazek z użyciem dedykowanego GPU oraz najwyższej jakości modeli AI. Po przestawieniu z GPU na CPU lub zmianie z najwyższej jakości na standardowej jakości modele AI, banding całkowicie znika i efekt końcowy wygląda dużo lepiej. (I already wrote this Gigapixel thing in English, as 'Radio Paranormalium'; sorry for making a mess with my nicknames, I forgot to switch to my personal account).
I love the way you drop little pieces of tech knowledge at the beginning of your videos. So quick and simple but makes so much sense and I never understood the concept before you explained it 😊
Thanks, I have never seen this kind of perfection ! Fast pace, easy to understand and just perfect way of making videos! Great quality too, top indeed. Keep going, subscribed!
I think, the caption is '7 Software Compared', that's mean compare each other.. not compare with the original one.. The answer compare with original photo, it will never be the same.. close but not the same..
@@irvanoktaviana1518 yea the idea is to make a small image bigger not make an image bigger when a bigger one exists the points is that the small image would be the original
I am a Gigapixel AI customer and have not had any issues with it. I cannot say I've used it often, but when I have its been excellent. This past Winter I used it to 'stretch' a fairly large panorama file to 300 DPI x 6 feet wide. I don't recall the original file size, so maybe it was like a 2x or 3x expansion. Anyway, the resulting print and image file came back with zero issues. All this said, there are settings for Gigapixel AI that need to be adjusted for optimal quality. CPU vs GPU, etc.
I would love for you to redo this in 2022. I think there are more software and the old software have advanced in performance. AlienSkin BlowUp would be nice to see compared too
Just a quick note that since this video has been released, Photoshop has come out with their own AI upscaling filter - the results hsve been excellent for me so far. Really great video, I appreciate the work you put into doing this comparison!
And I literally just bought Gigapixel yesterday! TBO, I didn't notice any horizontal artifacts, and the results are quite impressive compared to Photoshop.
@@emanu1674 I agree. I love Gigapixel. I just did a comparison with a 4X upscale of one of my own landscape images with Gigapixel vs. Lets Enhance and the latter was laughably bad compared to Gigapixel. Oh, and I have never had the banding problem he has had with the Topaz product.
I've tried few pictures with Imglarger and it is extremely impressive. It loses some roughness and makes things look slightly cartoony and too soft, but the sheer resolution upgrade is amazing. It brings back so much detail, even from pictures that are so pixalated that even you yourself cannot recreate in your mind. Though admittedly this works best for artwork and other images like that, the artifacts and detail loss/blend for real pictures or game screenshots, especially for signs, letters and etc is pretty substantial. Pricing is not very realistic, you cannot expect average user to pay monthly subscription for imagine upscaler, we just want to enhance few wallpapers and screenshots from time to time. As always pricing plans do not take such users into account
I use gigapixel (using windows 10), not only do I 6x enlarge my artwork but then at times 6x the image again and I print extremely large prints using a pro lab. No issues whatsoever so I don't really know that this chap is talking about. Maybe it is his PC that has the issue not Gigapixel. I print and sell my artwork using the software Gigapixel for on an average £300 - £500 a pop, so no complaints here.
Part of the issue with the demo of Topaz GAI is that in the demo he turned on face enhancement for that large, portrait only image. Topaz intends that setting to be used for small faces in a crowd (goodness only knows if they have a tool tip about that ....); it actually makes portraits worse if used in the way this demo is shown (by turning the face enhancement feature on for a headshot like was used to demo).
Independent non pro here, I’ve loved luminar but it’s really the only one I have. It’s simple and I dig the results . I stay open to new stuff but I never know who’s on the payroll . This channel seems pretty good and I’m a fan
"These are my personal opinion and preferences and yours might be different and it's absolutrly fine because thats what makes all of us unique." I lloved this line and I am going to use it at the end of every arguement ;)
With Gigapixel I have noticed a difference between CPU and GPU rendering. Also that artifact is more than likely caused by the face enhancement feature, which seems to be a new feature.
I have a probably 18 month old version and it does have face enhancement, and works flawlessly. Could be they introduced bugginess, or maybe as you and others suggest, certain gpu assisted rendering is causing it. I run a RTX 3090 with the latest drivers and had no issue as mentioned.
@@tosvus yeah I'm wondering if it's his GPU that caused the artifacts. I've been using GigaPixel for years with no problems but I have had problems in the past using Topaz's Video Enhancer AI. If I had my GPU overclocked too much then i would get major artifacting in the processed VEAI videos. I have also noticed that sometimes if I upscale an image way too much using GigaPixel it will add lines to the entire image, but only upscaling 4x shouldn't have done that with his image.
@@derAtze I think it may just be that the program doesn't have enough information to work with on lower res images. I've only noticed the lines when upscaling low resolution images and thats usually only if enlarging x6 or bigger. But if you start out with a high res image for example 2000 x 4000 and enlarge 6 times then the enlarged image looks fine. On lower res images the lines may just be the program pixelating the image.
It has Noise Reduction on by Default -- which skewed all the results. It does look nice for soft pretty faces -- but would ruin any other image. But the rest of his list was spot on.
loot6 If i say i love someone’s music, does that mean they paid me? If i say i love IOS, does that mean apple paid me? No, it doesn’t. Just because someone *prefers* something over the other, doesn’t mean it’s a paid promo.
But you can combine imglarger and letsenhance together and take the best part of each. I like soft skin and right part of hair of letsenhance. So, you can get so much better result with this two services, just needs little bit of masking work.
Very good and pratical comparison about PICTURE ENHANCE AI softwares, You have put your good money and time to produce this comprehensive video for your viewers I appreciate your effort
your comment was 10 months ago and I just bought gigapixel tonight after watching Anthony Morganti and I really hope now 10 months later it is even more evolved
For anyone wondering, Deep Image AI also costs money now and sadly isn't fully free anymore. They've also got a 5 image limit that you get when signing up for an account. My guess is that they somehow saw *this* video and thought ''You know what, let's just make it cost money like all the other similar pages''.
No, I think it was only free because it was in beta. Now you seemingly have to sign up to even have a shot at the alleged free. I didn't bother of course.
This is an old review of December 2019. Please provide an updated review on this, as Gigapixel AI has undergone a major update and does a fantastic job. Also it can be customised to a particular image very well. Another note: according to me the online app "Letsenhance" in the end was clearly ranked far too high with its loss of eyelashes of the example image. Other than that it is a good comparison and very useful video and some great suggestions what aspects to look at when judging the results.
I use ML upscale on Pixelmator Pro on an M1 iMac. It’s superb, and uses the M1 16 ML hardware cores to render upscales. On intel this takes 55 seconds, on M1 it takes 2 seconds.
I used GigaPixel AI on an old picture like my grandfather in WWII. The scanned picture was 700x1034 300 pixels/inch BW and I used the 8x and out of box settings. The result was amazing. The clarity of the car, road, building was stunning. Even my grandfather and his uniform were mostly clean. I'm not saying that it is perfect but AI has created a good source for further improvements. Photoshop didn't do a good job, as it just resized the pixelation. I tried some other old pictures, like the wedding picture of my grandparents from the 1920s, and the result was in many cases very good. It created texture in areas where the original is fuzzy. The curtains in windows, the fences, the window shutters or the roof shingles look very much like the looked at the time. Scratches in the source are more visible after using AI. It makes retouching much easier.
I use GigaPixel all the time. I even taught my grandfather how to use it and he's using it on all his old pictures as well. We are both Windows 10 users and have never experienced lines on our photos as he did in this video. I think it's because he was using a MAC.
I stopped using the gigapixel due to the lines mentioned in the video as well. Mind you this was on 4 different machines, several different images, etc. Gigapixel is decent at it's job. Now if they could just fix this bug. Until then, I will use alternatives.
MacOS user here, I mostly use Gigapixel for texture and I can totally agree on your opinions, I never saw any lines on my image so I don't know if it's an OS problem, I'll try it on Windows to see
@@cindykruger9736 I don't have any connections to Topaz. I'm a retired software engineer trying to follow my passions in relation to photo, video and 3D animation. I've seen a video about GigaPixel AI and thought I give it a try. So far, the app surprised me with some pictures and especially the very old ones from my grandparents. It's just a hobby and I started this year. Lots of pictures to scan and to restore/improve. :-o I'm more in the learning phase and that why I watch videos like this one.
I tried Remini app free and it did some amazing jobs on some of my old family photos. I use it a lot now for old portraits and results are simply stunning... Watching this video, I could not achieve this with the two top sites listed in here imglarger and letsenhance!
Thank you so much! You have amazing tutorials, I find out so many useful things from you. I love how you're so passionate about what you do, that it's impossible not get interested in creating my own stuff :)
@@garvsabbarwal3000 That doesnt mean all devices (monitor, mobile, print) will look the same. sRGB is a colour space, not an ICM profile. Calibration on all devices is needed to make an image look the same everywhere.
@@garvsabbarwal3000 i know that ( color sapce) I edit photo in Adobe RGB 1998 but to export i convert to sRGB i know all that still it look different i have nvidia GeForce gt710 graphic card and hdmi 1.4 port i set display to sRGB and much more in graphic card Ricardo is right even after all sometime pic doesn't look same
this guy is very good in photoshop skill, the way he made the details explanation with simple words is outstanding. The way you talked, I know you are good in front of audience too. Salute your teaching skills
Maybe the improved, maybe it was because I used different pictures, but compared Let's Enhance and Imglarger and in my test Let's enhance always look way better. I recommend to try it on your own.
Thanks for the comparision but I won't judge based on one sample photos. Different software may have different algorithms and may perform better in different cases.
From what I observed, the issue with banding in Topaz software tends to appear when Nvidia GPUs are used. Lots of users of Nvidia GPUs have this problem. I have an Nvidia GeForce MX 960 on my laptop and the banding lines are gone since I disabled the 'High Quality AI Models' and switched to 'Standard' ones.
@@ivellios_rp Thanks for the input. Definitely eliminated the banding issue. High Quality AI worked for me with GPU turned off but with a significant performance hit, 36s vs 1:32 render time. When compared to normal AI, depending on area of image examined, each render (high vs normal) looked better in select areas. I also found that using Man-Made vs Natural on my system eliminated the banding but seemed to create a bit of color noise when using GPU with High Quality AI. Downside was images appeared over sharpened, especially portraits. Warrants further testing.
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You're right, these rankings are definitely dependent on the eye of the viewer. LetsEnhance was disqualified for me because it overly softened the image to the point of throwing away important details. Was it ugly? Not exactly... but it certainly wasn't accurate enough for my tastes. I don't understand why you bothered importing the original or the low-res version if you weren't going to do a final comparison of the "winner" with them both. Might as well not even have had them loaded in.
So I guess..! # You bought the GigaPixel Software First, # You got Disappointed with the results, # Then you compared it with some free tools, # After comparing the result you got upset thinking how much money u have wasted, # Then you decided to make a video about it. # You Uploaded the video # I watched it # I Thank you for Making This Video, it was really good.. :)
The whole point of having Gigapixel as an actual software on your PC is so that you can fine tune the settings before conversion. With a live preview of the end result. Not using this leads to sub par results. What were you expecting?
Yes, i had used gigapixel with trial account. On my opinion gigapixel must on first or second position. Gigapixel can take best quality if this man setting prefences first.
Gigapixel was amazing in the little preview window but left artifacts after full processing. However, judging from your results, I think I'd have just put Gigapixel at the top and called the artifacts a cost of upscaling. Then photoshop them out.
For some reason, Gigapixel AI seems to have a problem with outputting JPG images, so to remove those weird artifacts, try to enable "Convert File Format" and choose PNG. the result will be much better (better than ImgLarger in my experience).
It's not using AI. It tries to solve the missing pieces by using fractals. While pretty good, they don't compare to a real AI solution which looks at similar pictures (thousands or millions) and basically steals detail from those.
This is an interesting test and comparision. Thank you. But my learnings are total different. This demo is about a portrait/face close up. If you choose "normal" photos with people anywere in the picture all AI image upscaler has the same problem: face gets destroyed. Also your prefered IMGLAGER with ranking 1 damage in nearly each case the faces; same as e.g. with Topaz Gigapixel. I don't know why the providers don't attend/react on this common problem since years. The solutions are long time on the market, but there are no improvements/updates in order to deal with faces. What features are missing in each AI photo and video enhancement tool are manual adjustment sliders for sharpness, deblocking, denoising and get rid of artifacts. In order to prevent face damage it need a mask tool with manual adjustment slider. Today the AI enhancement tools for photos and videos are only usable for landscape footage without any people in the picture. I don't see any sign from software providers to improve their software and get rid of face damage problems.
Just a tip I picked up from another UA-cam contributor: When upscaling an image, use a combination of different ai software choices (such as GP AI and PS), then layer them in PS, mask, and brush out the parts of the image that look better on the underlying layer. Love this channel, and keep the great videos coming.
Can you link the video where you watched this tip thanks
Terrific point! Appreciate you sharing this, I have to give this a try! Thank You!
Great idea. Makes lot of sense.
Link
Share the video link please!
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As the IT manager of a small animation studio, your statement on being upfront with pricing is spot on. When assessing options I have to create a price matrix and present it to producers. I don't have the time to submit a form, talk to a sales, agent, and sign up for a demo just to get a price. Unless someone asked for that software specifically, I am going to pass on it and move onto the next alternative.
Not related to this video but if you do have knee pain (like your username says) check out knees over toes guy here on youtube... the knee guru and his exercises will help
Yes, that is one way to hook up with a demo but, I think that they want to register more for "spam" purposes than for not telling the price
Very helpful video. For what it's worth, if anyone is specifically looking to upscale png images with transparency and sharp lines (illustrations), I have found BigJpg to be leagues ahead of the others. I had some tiny 256x256 Windows icons I wanted to upscale, and every single one except BigJpg produces garbage looking edges and/or weird halos, not being able to handle the transparency. Apparently bigjpg focuses on being an "anime" upscaler, so is probably trained much more on cartoon images. It actually does a good job. I haven't really tested it at all with regular images because I use Gigapixel for those. (And gigapixel also completely sucks at images with transparency)
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good cmt ., tks for the review , I have just use BIGJPG for 1 day, and I really disapointed in it , but read your comment made me understand the situation, I will use it in future for right purposes
@daniru roberdglimmer bit it is not stable , because sometimes it does not work
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Hey Joe, just tried BigJPG for upscaling my illustration style images and I'm just blown away. I was using Gigapixel but like you said it's wayyy more impressive for those types of images! The lines are so clean and the noise reduction is just wow. Thank you!
Again, so good..THE BEST CHANNEL for Image Postproduction!
Wow!! His teaching style is fantastic! Congratulations for your work. I'm speechless! Thank you!
Plot twist: He didn't have this video idea at all but he did it just because he got so angry at gigapixel :D
@@AnkitSinghudaipur GigaPixel has the best quality, just mess with the sliders.
Huh Huh Huh OMG
If you’re getting lines you probably need to turn off the GPU usage.
Brother he had mentioned that it is only his personal opinion..
I got angry at the clickbait thumbnail.
Disabling the GPU in Gigapixel will avoid horizontal banding in the result
When i need to learn something and i find out theres a tutorial of yours, man, i get happy! haha You are awesome!
lol same!
Thanks for sharing! I've been using Nero Image Upscaler and I found it useful too! And most important of all, it's free!
Bro! This is the most comprehensive and unbiased review I have seen. It opened my eyes to more things than you can imagine. Thanks for taking the time to create this video so we understand our choices and make the best decision when purchasing any of these products.
Why didn’t you compare the winner to the full resolution image?
Yeah, it's quite good material, but this final comparison should be added.
And it's too long video - I like the step-by-step presentation, but it definitely should be beter edited (about half of it would be gone).
Anyway thumbs up - I will check this channel from time to time...
@@marekkoodziejak1513 Dłuższe wideo = więcej slotów na reklamy ;-) sporo kanałów tak działa. A z Gigapixelem jest problem, mianowicie ów banding pojawia się w momencie gdy upscale'ujemy obrazek z użyciem dedykowanego GPU oraz najwyższej jakości modeli AI. Po przestawieniu z GPU na CPU lub zmianie z najwyższej jakości na standardowej jakości modele AI, banding całkowicie znika i efekt końcowy wygląda dużo lepiej.
(I already wrote this Gigapixel thing in English, as 'Radio Paranormalium'; sorry for making a mess with my nicknames, I forgot to switch to my personal account).
@@ivellios_rp doesn't make sense why?
@@charbelito941 ??
because high res original will be always better than the upscaled version it is common sense. Thereby comparing with low res is the way to go.
Awesome tutorial as always :)
You are next level guy 😊
I love the way you drop little pieces of tech knowledge at the beginning of your videos. So quick and simple but makes so much sense and I never understood the concept before you explained it 😊
Thanks, I have never seen this kind of perfection ! Fast pace, easy to understand and just perfect way of making videos! Great quality too, top indeed. Keep going, subscribed!
I dont have money so we'll go for Four xD We are all on the same boat buddy xD
Taha Khan over 1 million subscribers...youtube must be paying tons of money to him ....and he say no money....that’s hilarious...:)
Need to compare with original photo.
right? I thought that was the point - seems like he forgot.
Agreed, the whole point of upscaling is to increase the image size faithfully not create a new look.
I think, the caption is '7 Software Compared', that's mean compare each other.. not compare with the original one.. The answer compare with original photo, it will never be the same.. close but not the same..
Exactly. I actually waited for that but it never happened.
@@irvanoktaviana1518 yea the idea is to make a small image bigger not make an image bigger when a bigger one exists the points is that the small image would be the original
This dude looks like he got upscaled by ai
yes he looks so hi res
Exaclty
I thought he was going to be AI talking about AI from the thumbnail.
I'd swear he's animatronic
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I am a Gigapixel AI customer and have not had any issues with it. I cannot say I've used it often, but when I have its been excellent. This past Winter I used it to 'stretch' a fairly large panorama file to 300 DPI x 6 feet wide. I don't recall the original file size, so maybe it was like a 2x or 3x expansion. Anyway, the resulting print and image file came back with zero issues. All this said, there are settings for Gigapixel AI that need to be adjusted for optimal quality. CPU vs GPU, etc.
I use Gigapixel and have had no lines. Must be a flaw in your system.
Would have liked to see a comparison of the enhanced against the full res original to see how close they came if at all to true upscale.
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You man are so professional, even if I am not really a designer, I create AI images and have always liked your videos, excellent vids.
This video solved my problem..I was super confused and now I know which one to go for! Thanks a lot! You are awesome!
I can’t even begin to describe how helpful this is
Even if I wasn't studying digital media I'd listen to this man talk for hours
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Ranking Best to worst:
1.ImgLarger
2. Letsenhance
3. ImageUpscaler
4.Photoshop
5. DeepimageAI
6. BigJPG
7.Gigapixel
thank you brother
Dude, I love your videos. They are very informative. Thanks for making all these available for free.
Brilliant work! Thanks for handling the test for me, I had been wondering about buying Gigapixel AI. Very well explained.
Great video, I agree with the ranking, except for LetsEnhance, I would put it in the last position. Leaves the image very washed.
I would love for you to redo this in 2022. I think there are more software and the old software have advanced in performance. AlienSkin BlowUp would be nice to see compared too
Just a quick note that since this video has been released, Photoshop has come out with their own AI upscaling filter - the results hsve been excellent for me so far.
Really great video, I appreciate the work you put into doing this comparison!
Which filter is that?
I haven't heard of one either. Everyone still talks about the same "preserve details 2."
This video was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you
Your videos are just perfect. Information, presentation, video quality, sound, lighting, background, and even your cool t-shirt :)
And I literally just bought Gigapixel yesterday! TBO, I didn't notice any horizontal artifacts, and the results are quite impressive compared to Photoshop.
Gigapixel is the best, the artifacts are probably his fault by not adjusting the settings properly
@@emanu1674 I agree. I love Gigapixel. I just did a comparison with a 4X upscale of one of my own landscape images with Gigapixel vs. Lets Enhance and the latter was laughably bad compared to Gigapixel. Oh, and I have never had the banding problem he has had with the Topaz product.
I've tried few pictures with Imglarger and it is extremely impressive. It loses some roughness and makes things look slightly cartoony and too soft, but the sheer resolution upgrade is amazing. It brings back so much detail, even from pictures that are so pixalated that even you yourself cannot recreate in your mind. Though admittedly this works best for artwork and other images like that, the artifacts and detail loss/blend for real pictures or game screenshots, especially for signs, letters and etc is pretty substantial. Pricing is not very realistic, you cannot expect average user to pay monthly subscription for imagine upscaler, we just want to enhance few wallpapers and screenshots from time to time. As always pricing plans do not take such users into account
Kudos my friend. When you brought up Gigapixel I was like "damn this guy really about to throw advertisements under the table" hahah I was wrong!
Thank you Unmesh. You are always helpful. Love and respect from Pakistan
I have learned soo much by watching your video.. Its amazing. Thank you for your help.
Gigapixel's did have some artifact issues for a short time, the latest version rocks.
Thanks. Actually I'm likely going to get it and your comment helped me decide
It's MUCH MUCH more better today!
Yeah Gigapixel rarely produces any bad artifacts in the newer versions, I was surprised when I saw his results in this video.
@@hexamirofficial same I haven't seen any of that in the brand new version!
I use gigapixel (using windows 10), not only do I 6x enlarge my artwork but then at times 6x the image again and I print extremely large prints using a pro lab. No issues whatsoever so I don't really know that this chap is talking about. Maybe it is his PC that has the issue not Gigapixel. I print and sell my artwork using the software Gigapixel for on an average £300 - £500 a pop, so no complaints here.
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Part of the issue with the demo of Topaz GAI is that in the demo he turned on face enhancement for that large, portrait only image. Topaz intends that setting to be used for small faces in a crowd (goodness only knows if they have a tool tip about that ....); it actually makes portraits worse if used in the way this demo is shown (by turning the face enhancement feature on for a headshot like was used to demo).
WTH is GAI?
@@v10moped Gigapixel AI
Independent non pro here, I’ve loved luminar but it’s really the only one I have. It’s simple and I dig the results . I stay open to new stuff but I never know who’s on the payroll . This channel seems pretty good and I’m a fan
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"These are my personal opinion and preferences and yours might be different and it's absolutrly fine because thats what makes all of us unique." I lloved this line and I am going to use it at the end of every arguement ;)
With Gigapixel I have noticed a difference between CPU and GPU rendering. Also that artifact is more than likely caused by the face enhancement feature, which seems to be a new feature.
I have a probably 18 month old version and it does have face enhancement, and works flawlessly. Could be they introduced bugginess, or maybe as you and others suggest, certain gpu assisted rendering is causing it. I run a RTX 3090 with the latest drivers and had no issue as mentioned.
@@tosvus yeah I'm wondering if it's his GPU that caused the artifacts. I've been using GigaPixel for years with no problems but I have had problems in the past using Topaz's Video Enhancer AI. If I had my GPU overclocked too much then i would get major artifacting in the processed VEAI videos. I have also noticed that sometimes if I upscale an image way too much using GigaPixel it will add lines to the entire image, but only upscaling 4x shouldn't have done that with his image.
@@NonLegitNation2 I've noticed the lines too. Did you come around any fix or reason dor it so far?
@@derAtze I think it may just be that the program doesn't have enough information to work with on lower res images. I've only noticed the lines when upscaling low resolution images and thats usually only if enlarging x6 or bigger. But if you start out with a high res image for example 2000 x 4000 and enlarge 6 times then the enlarged image looks fine. On lower res images the lines may just be the program pixelating the image.
for me letsenhance is one of the worst, it kills details and artificial smoothing of textures, it's a no go
It has Noise Reduction on by Default -- which skewed all the results. It does look nice for soft pretty faces -- but would ruin any other image. But the rest of his list was spot on.
@@Firebrand911 But despite that he said it was always nicer than the others though, obviously a paid promotion.
loot6 If i say i love someone’s music, does that mean they paid me?
If i say i love IOS, does that mean apple paid me?
No, it doesn’t. Just because someone *prefers* something over the other, doesn’t mean it’s a paid promo.
But you can combine imglarger and letsenhance together and take the best part of each. I like soft skin and right part of hair of letsenhance. So, you can get so much better result with this two services, just needs little bit of masking work.
I can't agree more. letsenhance ruined eyes completely, and I don't understand how it can be considered good.
Very good and pratical comparison about PICTURE ENHANCE AI softwares, You have put your good money and time to produce this comprehensive video for your viewers
I appreciate your effort
your videos are fun to watch and you have tons of talent man
Gigapixel is evolving very much, Latest version makes absolute magic with some photos!
your comment was 10 months ago and I just bought gigapixel tonight after watching Anthony Morganti and I really hope now 10 months later it is even more evolved
@@Supermanohman it's still really good, but with the rescent update I find it slower than before
Why are my eyes telling me Letsenhance is just a blurry mess but his eyes tell him there are details unseen to me?
I agree with you. It's just a blur image.
I think he likes the smoothness but I agree that lets enhance was nowhere near as good as he says
yea, its a tongo... o sea un tongo, pura mierda... XD
Yes!
Yes, too soft.
For anyone wondering, Deep Image AI also costs money now and sadly isn't fully free anymore. They've also got a 5 image limit that you get when signing up for an account. My guess is that they somehow saw *this* video and thought ''You know what, let's just make it cost money like all the other similar pages''.
No, I think it was only free because it was in beta. Now you seemingly have to sign up to even have a shot at the alleged free. I didn't bother of course.
Thank you for all of your work! I always appreciate it.
You're so awesome! Thank you for all the content you put out there, it's always what I'm looking for!
This is an old review of December 2019. Please provide an updated review on this, as Gigapixel AI has undergone a major update and does a fantastic job. Also it can be customised to a particular image very well.
Another note: according to me the online app "Letsenhance" in the end was clearly ranked far too high with its loss of eyelashes of the example image. Other than that it is a good comparison and very useful video and some great suggestions what aspects to look at when judging the results.
letsenhance has also improved. since last year.
Also Deep Image AI now wants you to login, and isn't fully free/unlimited, they have pricing now
Also, photoshop has beta neural filters in the menu where the filter gallery is now under select. So that would be a good comparison as well.
@ I compared it, it is not so good.
@@СергейТаркинский ok thanks! I’ve been using photoshop neural filters.
I use ML upscale on Pixelmator Pro on an M1 iMac. It’s superb, and uses the M1 16 ML hardware cores to render upscales. On intel this takes 55 seconds, on M1 it takes 2 seconds.
Me too. Would have been nice if he had linked his original photo so we could use other apps (like Pixelmator) to see what it can do.
I used GigaPixel AI on an old picture like my grandfather in WWII.
The scanned picture was 700x1034 300 pixels/inch BW and I used the 8x and out of box settings.
The result was amazing. The clarity of the car, road, building was stunning. Even my grandfather and his uniform were mostly clean.
I'm not saying that it is perfect but AI has created a good source for further improvements.
Photoshop didn't do a good job, as it just resized the pixelation.
I tried some other old pictures, like the wedding picture of my grandparents from the 1920s, and the result was in many cases very good.
It created texture in areas where the original is fuzzy. The curtains in windows, the fences, the window shutters or the roof shingles look very much like the looked at the time.
Scratches in the source are more visible after using AI.
It makes retouching much easier.
I use GigaPixel all the time. I even taught my grandfather how to use it and he's using it on all his old pictures as well.
We are both Windows 10 users and have never experienced lines on our photos as he did in this video. I think it's because he was using a MAC.
I stopped using the gigapixel due to the lines mentioned in the video as well. Mind you this was on 4 different machines, several different images, etc. Gigapixel is decent at it's job. Now if they could just fix this bug. Until then, I will use alternatives.
MacOS user here, I mostly use Gigapixel for texture and I can totally agree on your opinions, I never saw any lines on my image so I don't know if it's an OS problem, I'll try it on Windows to see
Did you include full disclaimer re: any connections to Topaz you might have
@@cindykruger9736
I don't have any connections to Topaz.
I'm a retired software engineer trying to follow my passions in relation to photo, video and 3D animation.
I've seen a video about GigaPixel AI and thought I give it a try.
So far, the app surprised me with some pictures and especially the very old ones from my grandparents.
It's just a hobby and I started this year. Lots of pictures to scan and to restore/improve. :-o
I'm more in the learning phase and that why I watch videos like this one.
What you are doing is awesome. You are really saving people from so many errors and bringing education to all. Thank and God bless you
Thank you, thank you! You're the new Underwriters Lab....along with Project Farm.
I’d like to also recommend Waifu2x. It’s been around for awhile. Free and great for artwork.
i use that one! its good!
That only does 2x though.
@@Noblelox not on the free desktop version
Gigapixel for me is a mixed bag dependant on the image...sometimes its brilliant and other times not so great. Great video as always...cheers
18:30 I'm watching your video without having photoshop... and I enjoy it !😂
And I'm watching this video through Photoshop
Excellent comparison! Congratulations!
I tried Remini app free and it did some amazing jobs on some of my old family photos. I use it a lot now for old portraits and results are simply stunning... Watching this video, I could not achieve this with the two top sites listed in here imglarger and letsenhance!
Thank you so much! You have amazing tutorials, I find out so many useful things from you. I love how you're so passionate about what you do, that it's impossible not get interested in creating my own stuff :)
Same! Photoshop has such a steep learning curve for me, but he is the best teacher 🥰
Can you do one on monitor calibration or something like that so photo look same on monitor , mobile, print . Thanks in advance
You have hardware for that. And its as easy as plug and play ;)
@@garvsabbarwal3000 That doesnt mean all devices (monitor, mobile, print) will look the same. sRGB is a colour space, not an ICM profile. Calibration on all devices is needed to make an image look the same everywhere.
@@garvsabbarwal3000 i know that ( color sapce) I edit photo in Adobe RGB 1998 but to export i convert to sRGB i know all that still it look different i have nvidia GeForce gt710 graphic card and hdmi 1.4 port i set display to sRGB and much more in graphic card Ricardo is right even after all sometime pic doesn't look same
@@ricardogomes1038 can you send me your e mail address?
@@ricardogomes1038 i can't afford any hardware or color calibration device like spyder etc.
He: "LetsEnhance is clearly better", me: Leaving....
😂
My thoughts exactly!
Agree. Let's enhance was way too smooth and lost too much detail
Lmao, I was like byeee
same letsenchance was worse than all other ones
this guy is very good in photoshop skill, the way he made the details explanation with simple words is outstanding. The way you talked, I know you are good in front of audience too. Salute your teaching skills
Thank you for the detailed comparison.
Let’s enhance just destroyed all the detail and made everything smooth. It’s by far the worst upscaler in the list.
I thought it was the only one that didn't make the hair look fake. But it definitely did make the image soft.
Maybe the improved, maybe it was because I used different pictures, but compared Let's Enhance and Imglarger and in my test Let's enhance always look way better. I recommend to try it on your own.
"Let’s enhance" is the worst
@@uyubebekim Then you definitly hasnt tested it much yourself. lol
@@uyubebekim Its actually very good. Try it yourself first
Thanks for the comparision but I won't judge based on one sample photos. Different software may have different algorithms and may perform better in different cases.
Hi, I use gigapixel a lot. It is weird, I never seen those lines like that. Please let us download that test image so we can compare
From what I observed, the issue with banding in Topaz software tends to appear when Nvidia GPUs are used. Lots of users of Nvidia GPUs have this problem. I have an Nvidia GeForce MX 960 on my laptop and the banding lines are gone since I disabled the 'High Quality AI Models' and switched to 'Standard' ones.
@@ivellios_rp Thanks for the input. Definitely eliminated the banding issue. High Quality AI worked for me with GPU turned off but with a significant performance hit, 36s vs 1:32 render time. When compared to normal AI, depending on area of image examined, each render (high vs normal) looked better in select areas. I also found that using Man-Made vs Natural on my system eliminated the banding but seemed to create a bit of color noise when using GPU with High Quality AI. Downside was images appeared over sharpened, especially portraits. Warrants further testing.
He must be using some weird GPU
Topaz has had a lot of GPU issues in their rollout of GPU support. I recommend turning it off until they get it figured out.
This video is great. I was looking for a good image upscale and you have broken it down for me. Cool beans and thanks for your wonderful videos.
Thanks Unmesh, appreciate your time and effort. You've set it straight, i use a few of these products in my photos.
You are too much lovely, you paid for us. We, specially me, I'm very much thankful.❤
But, don't be worry. We'll always be here beside you.
Have great days!❤
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You're right, these rankings are definitely dependent on the eye of the viewer. LetsEnhance was disqualified for me because it overly softened the image to the point of throwing away important details. Was it ugly? Not exactly... but it certainly wasn't accurate enough for my tastes. I don't understand why you bothered importing the original or the low-res version if you weren't going to do a final comparison of the "winner" with them both. Might as well not even have had them loaded in.
I share your opinion, LetsEnhance was way to soft, the eye, the mounth, ....
Hi....I don't get the lines that you get, with gigapixel on my mac; but I do like your video. Thanks
Superb comparison and 'quality' presentation.
R u kidding whoever hasnt subbed yet isn't learning photoshop from you my man 🥰
So I guess..!
# You bought the GigaPixel Software First,
# You got Disappointed with the results,
# Then you compared it with some free tools,
# After comparing the result you got upset thinking how much money u have wasted,
# Then you decided to make a video about it.
# You Uploaded the video
# I watched it
# I Thank you for Making This Video, it was really good.. :)
The whole point of having Gigapixel as an actual software on your PC is so that you can fine tune the settings before conversion. With a live preview of the end result. Not using this leads to sub par results. What were you expecting?
a better result than 40 dollars per month
Yes, i had used gigapixel with trial account. On my opinion gigapixel must on first or second position. Gigapixel can take best quality if this man setting prefences first.
15:22 I watched 3 20 second non-skipable ads bro
Thank you for adding results in the description 👍👍
You are the MVP. I was about to buy Gigapxl.
Love your videos!
"Dislike it twice." That tickled me to no end!😂
Gigapixel was amazing in the little preview window but left artifacts after full processing.
However, judging from your results, I think I'd have just put Gigapixel at the top and called the artifacts a cost of upscaling.
Then photoshop them out.
For some reason, Gigapixel AI seems to have a problem with outputting JPG images, so to remove those weird artifacts, try to enable "Convert File Format" and choose PNG. the result will be much better (better than ImgLarger in my experience).
Thank you. Best video in youtube about this topic
Thank you so so much you don't know how much you've helped me with this video THANK YOUUUUUU!
Any update on this? Would be curious how this ranks in 2022!
How come you missed Genuine Fractals or ON1 stuff which has been an age old plugin for PS. Deliberate or not worth it?
what
Becuase they clearly suck!
Agree with you 1000%
It's not using AI. It tries to solve the missing pieces by using fractals. While pretty good, they don't compare to a real AI solution which looks at similar pictures (thousands or millions) and basically steals detail from those.
@@tosvus yes
This is an interesting test and comparision. Thank you. But my learnings are total different. This demo is about a portrait/face close up. If you choose "normal" photos with people anywere in the picture all AI image upscaler has the same problem: face gets destroyed. Also your prefered IMGLAGER with ranking 1 damage in nearly each case the faces; same as e.g. with Topaz Gigapixel.
I don't know why the providers don't attend/react on this common problem since years. The solutions are long time on the market, but there are no improvements/updates in order to deal with faces.
What features are missing in each AI photo and video enhancement tool are manual adjustment sliders for sharpness, deblocking, denoising and get rid of artifacts.
In order to prevent face damage it need a mask tool with manual adjustment slider.
Today the AI enhancement tools for photos and videos are only usable for landscape footage without any people in the picture. I don't see any sign from software providers to improve their software and get rid of face damage problems.
Great video, as always!
thumbs up - excellent presentation - i'm convinced