This upscaling tool is amazing! - Waifu2x tutorial

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  • Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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    3:26 HOW TO USE WAIFU2X
    en.wikipedia.o...
    en.wikipedia.o...
    Online tool you can try it out with: waifu2x.udp.jp/
    Free and open source download!! github.com/llt...
    8:13 HOW TO TAKE AND DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE WEBPAGE SCREENSHOTS
    / 864202023889059842
    19:32 HOW TO PROPERLY DESATURATE SUBPIXEL RENDERING!
    en.wikipedia.o...
    (Use Photoshop's "Black & White" adjustment)
    My preset:
    -51 Red
    158 Yellow
    90 Green
    142 Cyan
    -113 Blue
    80 Magenta
    Results of Taran experiments: / 1101609613005185024
    22:41 "LET'S BLOW IT UP EVEN MORE"
    23:50 TRYING SOME ONLINE VECTORIZATION TOOLS
    These are literally just the first two Google results:
    vectormagic.com/ (Decent, but costs $$$)
    www.vectorizer... (Not good)
    26:26 SUPER EASY 1-CLICK WINDOW DRAGGING AND RESIZING AHK SCRIPT
    github.com/Tar...
    27:00 THE SMART UPSCALE ADDON IN FIREFOX - (IS THERE A CHROME EQUIVALENT?)
    addons.mozilla...
    Oh, by the way, Photoshop DOES have a "preserve detail" upscaling option, but it's not nearly as good.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 1,8 тис.

  • @blueberry1c2
    @blueberry1c2 5 років тому +6317

    So basically weebs did it before the FBI, just to have high quality renderings of their favourite character

    • @doyoulikeworms3151
      @doyoulikeworms3151 5 років тому +1059

      proving once again that there is *nothing* more powerful in this world than autism.

    • @elfelon9465
      @elfelon9465 5 років тому +467

      @@doyoulikeworms3151 4chan has weaponized autism so be carefull boys

    • @safir2241
      @safir2241 5 років тому +42

      Brietr
      Oh damn that makes sense

    • @Half-V
      @Half-V 5 років тому +93

      @@w花b yeah boi, so they can see the *art* clearly

    • @anonr3171
      @anonr3171 5 років тому +93

      YES YES WE DID , AND YOU'RE WELCOME . WE'RE STIL WORKING ON POLARIZATION CENSORSHIP THOUGH ; P

  • @immortallix
    @immortallix 5 років тому +2943

    Never doubt the power of a weeb in need of a higher resolution image

  • @Abdega
    @Abdega 5 років тому +2780

    Eventually, “Waifu2x” is going to be used in a court case

    • @Half-V
      @Half-V 5 років тому +48

      yep, all dem evidence

    • @reedbrousseau5884
      @reedbrousseau5884 5 років тому +272

      Thankfully, case law has already established that computer enhanced images are altered by the enhancement process, which is especially true of images enhanced by a basic neural network trained to upscale images, because the neural network makes educated "guesses" to upscale the image, and thus don't pass the litmus test for being acceptable as evidence... This won't stop law enforcement from using this technology to develop leads from video and photographs, but they'll need to develop other forms of evidence in order to build a case that will land a conviction...

    • @coows
      @coows 5 років тому +33

      @@reedbrousseau5884 is your dad a lawyer, or do you just know a lot?

    • @reedbrousseau5884
      @reedbrousseau5884 5 років тому +82

      @30G I watch a lot of crime dramas and I read a lot more than I sleep...

    • @coows
      @coows 5 років тому +4

      @@reedbrousseau5884 oh

  • @xXChaD
    @xXChaD 5 років тому +2397

    Detective: Enhance.
    Computer nerd: *Googles Waifu2x*

    • @GameFuMaster
      @GameFuMaster 5 років тому +98

      hentai pictures show up as examples on front page

    • @JackPorter
      @JackPorter 5 років тому +45

      @@GameFuMaster gets fired from job

    • @coows
      @coows 5 років тому +26

      @@paithen7033 *profit*

    • @CelineCatalina98
      @CelineCatalina98 5 років тому +6

      *double clicks waifu2x*
      "waifu2x.exe has stopped working"

    • @pix_d20
      @pix_d20 5 років тому +5

      @@JackPorter gets hired in more better job with higher salary

  • @AllUsernamesTaken
    @AllUsernamesTaken 4 роки тому +797

    I am SO PROUD that the current best tool to scale images is called waifu2x

    • @Naltrex
      @Naltrex 4 роки тому +23

      not anymore, topaz gigapixel ai is the best tool now

    • @spongeymind2066
      @spongeymind2066 4 роки тому +4

      @@Naltrex gigapixel is wayyy better

    • @spongeymind2066
      @spongeymind2066 4 роки тому +7

      @@Naltrex u have to pay for dat

    • @imnotfuckingusingthisaccou2574
      @imnotfuckingusingthisaccou2574 4 роки тому +1

      Stfu filthy weeb, it’s a sad name and it ruins the tool

    • @GregorianMG
      @GregorianMG 4 роки тому +24

      @@imnotfuckingusingthisaccou2574 I see no problem here. It's just a name anyway. Like bad thought is just a thought or jail is just a room.

  • @griffinsans8100
    @griffinsans8100 5 років тому +1142

    A group of people used Waifu2x to upscale the entirety of Avatar: The Last Airbender to 1080p and its amazing.

    • @theLuigiFan0007Productions
      @theLuigiFan0007Productions 5 років тому +166

      Interesting. Video is a REALLY good use of high quality upscaling.

    • @Jono997
      @Jono997 5 років тому +124

      Now this I NEED to see. Could you please link it?

    • @notme9804
      @notme9804 5 років тому +41

      I agree with Jono99, link us up my man

    • @flameshana9
      @flameshana9 5 років тому +30

      Upload at least a sample to show us please.

    • @theLuigiFan0007Productions
      @theLuigiFan0007Productions 5 років тому +24

      Or at least the correct search terms. Sometimes a clue is all you need.

  • @theogkyat
    @theogkyat 5 років тому +1713

    Employer: What is your technique to upscaling images?
    Me: I use Waifu2x.

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  5 років тому +522

      "You're hired."

    • @Mic_Glow
      @Mic_Glow 4 роки тому +62

      Someone who isn't a nerd/ otaku would just consider it to be a random, innocent program name.

    • @armbsecure
      @armbsecure 4 роки тому +5

      @@user-no3tu9kh3p what does it mean ?

    • @NateTDOM
      @NateTDOM 4 роки тому +14

      Lol armb waifu is japanese word for wife and to otakus/weebs they use it for the anime character they would marry or w/e

    • @anirvana
      @anirvana 4 роки тому +4

      @@TaranVH Oh, you're Taran! I didn't see your channel and was kinda confused as to why your voice sounded familiar lol

  • @chupamelasbolasregem
    @chupamelasbolasregem 5 років тому +564

    Im one of the one who train upRGB to waifu2x, TTA mode is and legacy option not mean to be used actually, this mode procces the image 8 times rotate it 45degress each time and combine them, you shoud use "2-D ilust (upRGB model)" for things like text and logos
    EDIT: Also make sure you have Nvidia cuDNN installed and cudnn64_7.dll in the waifu caffe folder, you can get it from Nvidia
    EDIT2: waifu2x proces images at 2^x, that means 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x... don't use any other scale x, if you use 3x it will be a 4x downscaled

    • @hime-kamisama
      @hime-kamisama 5 років тому +17

      This needs to be at the top

    • @chupamelasbolasregem
      @chupamelasbolasregem 5 років тому +15

      @@hime-kamisama TY i add some other information that can be usefull to speed up things, sorry for my bad eng =^.^=

    • @chupamelasbolasregem
      @chupamelasbolasregem 5 років тому +1

      @@hime-kamisama You are using the right one for speed, UpRGB was trained whit my GTX 750ti (still in use), any other profile give you a little bit more accurate but 400% time for inapreciable changes unless you zoom in a lot, but much slower CUnet profile is broken for me, so i can't say anything about it

    • @hime-kamisama
      @hime-kamisama 5 років тому

      cristian carvajal yeah cunet is broken for me too. I guess I'll stick with upRGB

    • @botondbota6350
      @botondbota6350 4 роки тому +1

      What language is this??

  • @k680B
    @k680B 5 років тому +266

    imagine one of these movies:
    -argh, we can't see the face of the criminal well, the resolution of the image is too low, makes everything look blury
    -wait boss, we can go over it, waifu2x will solve the problem quickly
    -have you just seriously said that out loud?

  • @DeSinc
    @DeSinc 5 років тому +111

    this is the kind of schitt you do when you get a 4k monitor and realise everything is blurry

    • @fyz6034
      @fyz6034 5 років тому +3

      daddy desinc

    • @bipbong2906
      @bipbong2906 3 роки тому

      Pain of precision

    • @1FeetHands
      @1FeetHands Рік тому

      maybe look up integer scaling as Windows scaling has problems...

  • @BraidenRobson
    @BraidenRobson 5 років тому +449

    18:40 "Here I waifu'd it" "But I only waifu'd this circle thing right here"

    • @andrive
      @andrive 5 років тому +1

      Lol

    • @weebbuster9751
      @weebbuster9751 5 років тому +20

      what a bad selection of words

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 4 роки тому +10

      damn ur sëxy miku

    • @WyvernApalis
      @WyvernApalis 4 роки тому +4

      Might be the only time that sentence has been said in human history

    • @rickole7404
      @rickole7404 4 роки тому +2

      @@WyvernApalis r/brandnewsentence

  • @grandaidthebandaid6307
    @grandaidthebandaid6307 5 років тому +55

    “Just waifu it”
    What a quote...

  • @TheLiSons
    @TheLiSons 5 років тому +288

    TTA mode is Test Time Augmentation - basically runs multiple versions of the image (flipped, slightly rotated, slightly cropped, etc) through Waifu2x, then combines the results. Ideally, using more versions of the image will make the result look better.
    It's also a very helpful technique in image classification!

    • @MenkoDany
      @MenkoDany 5 років тому +14

      I was hoping someone would mention in the comments!

    • @coows
      @coows 5 років тому +3

      Tta my waifu

    • @dantheman2907
      @dantheman2907 4 роки тому +1

      I was hoping it stood for Through The Ass...

  • @johanngrillenbeck
    @johanngrillenbeck 5 років тому +241

    I would've never imagined that Taran is the type of guy to save everything on his desktop like crazy...

    • @ryuuji159
      @ryuuji159 5 років тому +15

      and he still have the kirby images

    • @stefanmodigh7897
      @stefanmodigh7897 5 років тому +1

      I usually put shortcuts only on my desktop, cuz Iam afraid that I'll accidentally remove folders or files lol!😅

    • @johanngrillenbeck
      @johanngrillenbeck 5 років тому +2

      @hyper you can disable desktop icons!? OMG I thought I'd never get rid of the recycle bin icon

    • @nmmeswey3584
      @nmmeswey3584 5 років тому +2

      @@johanngrillenbeck it should be on screen >> themes and under that the desktop icons setting on windows 10

    • @TheWaveBloke
      @TheWaveBloke 5 років тому +2

      You know, I watched the whole thing thinking “I recognise this voice” but never put it together in my mind that it was the same Taran.

  • @TaranVH
    @TaranVH  5 років тому +324

    I accidentally deleted some comment with a thousand likes, WHOOPS SOWWY. Blame UA-cam's crummy UI.

    • @bitterjames
      @bitterjames 5 років тому +72

      if that comment was Justin Y's, then you just earned a subscriber.

    • @previousslayer
      @previousslayer 5 років тому +12

      owo that's crummy

    • @maruftim
      @maruftim 4 роки тому +4

      This is so sad can we get 1 like

    • @zsin128
      @zsin128 3 роки тому

      Sowwy

    • @AcornGR
      @AcornGR 3 роки тому +7

      Should’ve upscaled it so you could see what you were pressing

  • @doggo00
    @doggo00 5 років тому +292

    LOOK AT THE TASKBAR THE MAD MAN HAS 70 THINGS OPEN

    • @Trekeyus
      @Trekeyus 4 роки тому +21

      Only 70

    • @PersimmonHurmo
      @PersimmonHurmo 4 роки тому +4

      LoL only

    • @whytho2109
      @whytho2109 4 роки тому

      amateur

    • @deecer3793
      @deecer3793 4 роки тому

      did u count?

    • @thysonsacclaim
      @thysonsacclaim 4 роки тому +5

      Pretty normal day at work for me as a developer. Actually my last job we used 32 thread machines because we have a ton of VMs, consoles, IDEs, etc open.

  • @k1ngjulien_
    @k1ngjulien_ 5 років тому +161

    waifu2x is based on machine learning which means that it has been trained on anime drawings and performs best with anime.
    if you want to upscale windows UI elements you would have to train it with that and then it would be able to replicate that with much better accuracy

    • @satibel
      @satibel 5 років тому +10

      there are multiple training modes in the desktop version, but adding a few for svg logos, blocky stuff, and windows UIs would be somewhat easy and indeed useful.

    • @leaffen9616
      @leaffen9616 5 років тому +6

      Who in the world thought it should be trained with... that unimaginative repetitive garbage, to put it nicely.

    • @k1ngjulien_
      @k1ngjulien_ 5 років тому +57

      @@leaffen9616 well apparently enough people have low res images of anime that something like this exists :)

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 5 років тому +9

      The way it restores that semicolon makes me think that some text went into it also.

    • @jetlag1488
      @jetlag1488 5 років тому +48

      @@leaffen9616 Anime isn't unimaginative repetitive garbage. Just because you've watched (or not watched) a couple of bad shows doesn't mean the entire medium is filled with shows like that. Anime isn't a genre. It's a way to tell stories.

  • @x105w5
    @x105w5 5 років тому +1079

    I can solve so many crimes now! Low quality CCTV be damned!

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 5 років тому +35

      @MTRredux That's actually pretty smart of that tv show to do, if I were watching that and they accepted that as evidence I would have been screaming at the tv screen for 30 minutes straight

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 5 років тому +10

      @MTRredux Oh okay
      Still would've been screaming at the screen if things played out differently :P

    • @MrPsi4
      @MrPsi4 5 років тому +6

      @@OrangeC7 Literally opened this comment chain to tell Px105 the following: "While you are obviously joking these upscaled images would not be admissible and if they were would actually hurt the prosecution"
      Turns out it was already covered though which makes this entire comment an exercise in futility.

    • @cheesecake4lyfe196
      @cheesecake4lyfe196 5 років тому +4

      and are we just going to gloss over the fact that his folder is named "FAP Transcoding"

    • @x105w5
      @x105w5 5 років тому +1

      @@AdelieDoo thank you I screenshotted it myself lol

  • @KazukiP
    @KazukiP 4 роки тому +172

    We all know what the weebs have been trying to depixelate 😳👀

    • @user-wk2gi5cp9y
      @user-wk2gi5cp9y 4 роки тому +15

      @@damaralbaribin "CreamPy"

    • @schitcrafter3641
      @schitcrafter3641 4 роки тому +18

      Haven't these guys partnered up with HentAI?

    • @tsymeh
      @tsymeh 4 роки тому +3

      schitcrafter lmao

    • @Die-Coughman
      @Die-Coughman 3 роки тому +1

      DVDs

    • @deanthe3684
      @deanthe3684 3 роки тому +1

      Uh-huh, I did just did it like an hour ago. @@Die-Coughman Vanilla waifu2x is images only. You need dandere2x or video2x or whatever. (No word from me yet on how well they work; I just discovered them.)

  • @titanium4167
    @titanium4167 5 років тому +425

    I see no difference in any image because I'm watching on 144p

    • @johann-space
      @johann-space 5 років тому +43

      just waifu the video xD

    • @techsupport2173
      @techsupport2173 5 років тому +8

      @@johann-space just video2x the video

    • @LunaWuna
      @LunaWuna 4 роки тому +2

      I'm watching in 480 lol

    • @dafoex
      @dafoex 4 роки тому +5

      I just have a tiny screen and can't read the text cap'd from that ultramassive monitor

    • @Clinohumite
      @Clinohumite 4 роки тому +3

      why are you in 144p

  • @nasa1722
    @nasa1722 5 років тому +281

    all hail our weeb overlord
    (i can't tell how much this site save my work god)

  • @HaHaBear
    @HaHaBear 5 років тому +154

    As an osu! player I am proud to say that I have been using this for a while for @2x'ing all elements for bigger osu! resolution people like me
    I have never looked back since.

    • @yorha.a2
      @yorha.a2 5 років тому +21

      Now I know why this vid was recommended to me. You replied =/

    • @klobiforpresident2254
      @klobiforpresident2254 5 років тому +5

      I've been using it for making my own sprites.
      I can make stuff look okay on tiny resolutions. Then I use this to upscale, FITB, and round we go again and. I suck at art but at least I can cheat my way past that.

    • @lucasc5622
      @lucasc5622 5 років тому +5

      osu hella gay

    • @static2140
      @static2140 5 років тому +17

      Lucas C No u.

    • @klobiforpresident2254
      @klobiforpresident2254 5 років тому

      @@static2140
      Both of you are right.

  • @PythonPlusPlus
    @PythonPlusPlus 5 років тому +92

    23:28 - “What I would do before I found my Waifu...”
    2x Chan

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel 5 років тому +32

    I love how such amazing technology was designed for anime girls. Beautiful.

    • @leaffen9616
      @leaffen9616 5 років тому +1

      Who in the world thought it should be trained with... that unimaginative repetitive garbage, to put it nicely.

    • @Xvladin
      @Xvladin 4 роки тому +12

      @@leaffen9616 hey! That's my wife you're talking about buddy!

    • @razormilkyway8444
      @razormilkyway8444 4 роки тому +3

      HAIL WEEBS

  • @Foundations01
    @Foundations01 5 років тому +68

    I like that "Waifu'd" is now a technical verb.

  • @Khanattila
    @Khanattila 5 років тому +38

    Hi Taran, welcome (finally) to the dark side of the video encoding!
    We have a lot of state-of-the-art video algorithms (see Vapoursynth plugin list) and proudly one is mine 😁

    • @Pi7on
      @Pi7on 5 років тому +3

      Thank you for contributing! Just for curiosity, what plugin did you make?

    • @Khanattila
      @Khanattila 5 років тому +3

      ​@@Pi7on KNLMeansCL, if you are interested.

    • @Pi7on
      @Pi7on 5 років тому +2

      @@Khanattila oh wow, I actually use it quit often, it's cool to know it has been coded by a fellow Italian :)

  • @deddrz2549
    @deddrz2549 4 роки тому +14

    I'vee found this especially useful when trying to use a 1080p anime background on a 2k monitor and the like. the results are interesting when you are scaling a low-quality image, but when all the information is already there it's really good at just making it look a little more like it belongs on your screen, even if it's looks are essentially the same.

  • @Qazmaxier
    @Qazmaxier 5 років тому +71

    How can I explain to my boss that I have to use "waifu2x" to get better performance in my job?

  • @cikeZ00
    @cikeZ00 5 років тому +23

    The weeb in me is screaming.
    Taran finally featured the one best piece of software that i use to upscale my waifus

    • @KimionTM
      @KimionTM 5 років тому +1

      one *best* piece, i see what you did there

  • @MakersMuse
    @MakersMuse 5 років тому +16

    I was wondering if you were going to make a vid on this after your recent experiments lol. Yay!

  • @spaciumbeam06
    @spaciumbeam06 5 років тому +119

    Upscaling like in movies is impossible... or is it...?
    **Vsauce music starts**

    • @Ryrzard
      @Ryrzard 4 роки тому +4

      It is in fact impossible.

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube 4 роки тому

      Read the top comment. A group of people upscaled the Avatar movie, another mentioned an upscaled version of the Spider-Man series.

    • @razormilkyway8444
      @razormilkyway8444 4 роки тому

      YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS

  • @MaratTanalin
    @MaratTanalin 5 років тому +16

    Hello, Taran. I am the author of SmartUpscale. There is now also SmartUpscale for Chrome.
    I would like to note that there is a more general and important issue we all need to solve - inevitable blur at non-native resolutions introduced during both display- and GPU-powered upscaling regardless of whether the scaling ratio is integer (e.g. 2.0 or 3.0) or fractional (e.g. 1.5 or 2.5).
    For example, Full HD upscaled to 4K is BLURRY due to bilinear interpolation blindly applied even though it could be perfectly sharp if each signal pixel was displayed as a square group of 2×2 same-color physical pixels.
    To encourage display and GPU manufacturers to finally solve the issue after 5 years of the 4K era, it’s important to make as many people aware of the issue as possible. Linus Tech Tips is probably able to cause that degree of public attention.
    The issue is described in detail in my article:
    tanalin.com/en/articles/lossless-scaling/
    The article also provides examples, partial and potential solutions, a ready-to-use algorithm, ways to get involved, and information about implementation progress.
    There is also a petition to AMD and nVidia that has 2200 votes so far:
    www.change.org/p/nvidia-amd-nvidia-we-need-integer-scaling-via-graphics-driver
    Thank you.

  • @happyone234
    @happyone234 5 років тому +419

    This website is legitimately amazing despite its name, lol.

    • @JealotGaming
      @JealotGaming 5 років тому +134

      It's amazing because of it's name.

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  5 років тому +120

      IT'S "ITS"

    • @happyone234
      @happyone234 5 років тому +11

      Taran Van Hemert OH SHIT thanks

    • @Abdullah-gb7kg
      @Abdullah-gb7kg 5 років тому +7

      @@JealotGaming it's "its" for ur comment too. :)

    • @Millez
      @Millez 5 років тому +7

      @@Abdullah-gb7kg "it's" means "it is", "its" is possessive. e.g "it's a cool video", "its content is really good!".

  • @Random-ot1mk
    @Random-ot1mk 5 років тому +86

    Everone else: Wow, look at those curves! (hints to good looking woman)
    Taran (23:17) : Wow, look at that curve! (Gets excited over properly upscaled circle)
    And that is why we love you and your content! Keep it up!

    • @Creamcups
      @Creamcups 5 років тому +13

      He's just excited about his waifu

    • @JackPorter
      @JackPorter 5 років тому +4

      @@li5516 this is uploaded by non-euclidean gang

  • @ChillerDragon
    @ChillerDragon 4 роки тому +1

    This video is hell of a ride. Seems well researched and prepared while random and improvised at the same time. Is it a tutorial? A behind the scenes of video editing workflow? A tool review? Comedy gold?

  • @helmi_muza
    @helmi_muza 5 років тому +47

    Thanks Taran, Now I can enhance my collection of waifu pictures,

  • @_your_mother_
    @_your_mother_ 5 років тому +5

    Tip: If you want to take a large *perfect* screenshot of anything in Windows 10 then just use Windows own scaling. Windows 10 fonts and icons are vector based so they scale perfectly to any size.
    Go to Settings > System > Display > and under 'Scale and Layout' set it to 200% or whatever you want.

  • @asa-ze1kn
    @asa-ze1kn 5 років тому +97

    I just watched a 30 minute video about enhancing photos wowo

  • @brandon99902
    @brandon99902 4 роки тому

    when you go as far as to improve the look of the original website so it looks better in your videos shows a level of dedication most men will never have

  • @jafizzle95
    @jafizzle95 3 роки тому

    Can't believe I watched this whole video. Really can't believe that I watched it a second time over a year later.
    Taran is a gift to the world.

  • @VanguardRaven
    @VanguardRaven 5 років тому +4

    I've been using this for years. It's damn fine, from upgrading a pixelated/jpeg'd pictures to upscaling smaller images, it's great.

  • @reelsportrd
    @reelsportrd 4 роки тому +7

    Just wanted to report back after using this tool for a while, from your recomendation in this video. I have gotten so much use out of it, specially with clients sending low-quality logos for us to use in videos. It's often quicker to run them through this tool than it is to wait for them to get the original logo (sometimes impossible with such old logos).
    So thank a lot for sharing this with us!

  • @JiajuChen
    @JiajuChen 4 роки тому

    This is literally the only reason that linus tech tips screenshot are never as blurry as most tech UA-camrs. I've wondered that before to be honest, until this video was finally recommended by UA-cam.

  • @stab456
    @stab456 5 років тому +1

    I just watched 30 minutes of a guy talking about making text in images look better. The most I do involving pictures and text is the occasional meme on discord but damn this guy's enthusiasm is contagious.

  • @shrigula9457
    @shrigula9457 5 років тому +284

    It's made for hentai characters, not logos. Please make another video showing the full potential with the intended use :D

    • @jetlag1488
      @jetlag1488 5 років тому +81

      It's not made for "hentai characters". It was made to upscale anime screenshots etc.

    • @ronfino
      @ronfino 5 років тому +1

      funny

    • @qvindicator
      @qvindicator 5 років тому +38

      Jet Lag what's the difference 😂😂

    • @Full_Throttle_Axolotl
      @Full_Throttle_Axolotl 5 років тому +23

      @@qvindicator Sometimes there's not porn. Only most of the time.

    • @Zyczu55
      @Zyczu55 5 років тому +37

      @@jetlag1488 Still 90% gonna use for hentai BECAUSE WHY NOT

  • @Metruzanca
    @Metruzanca 5 років тому +106

    You mentioned a lot of screenshots for your line of work? What do you do? Seems like you do something related to UX.
    OHHH YOU'RE THE EDITOR FOR LINUS TECH TIPS

    • @kipchickensout
      @kipchickensout 5 років тому

      what do they need to edit

    • @Metruzanca
      @Metruzanca 5 років тому +1

      @@kipchickensout What do you mean?

    • @nanoprehistoric
      @nanoprehistoric 5 років тому +1

      YES THATS WAS MY REACTION!

    • @diddy_dante
      @diddy_dante 5 років тому +2

      Also is this sponsored by PIA?

    • @Metruzanca
      @Metruzanca 5 років тому

      @@diddy_dante Whats PIA?

  • @Holkerzu
    @Holkerzu 4 роки тому

    This is why I sub and follow Taran. Because I'm a video editor and video producer, I love learning editing stuff from Taran.
    You helped me on the shortcut keys and it has cut my editing from 8 days to 2 days max of 1st draft. And now upskilling myself with this video.
    Thanks Taran. Please don't stop these videos. You're my my go-to and guru video editing.

    • @Holkerzu
      @Holkerzu 4 роки тому

      I just realise I commented on a 1 year video. Welp thanks UA-cam recommendations at the right time?

  • @poopoopeepee2400
    @poopoopeepee2400 5 років тому +31

    Just imagine a hacker hacking into an fbi computer and the first thing he sees is waifu2x xD

  • @Aeroxima
    @Aeroxima 5 років тому +9

    You're so thorough. "You could.. actually let's just do that." How do you have the patience? lol
    It's great, and so is Waifu2x, thanks

  • @markzuckerbread1865
    @markzuckerbread1865 4 роки тому +14

    imagine a cop show where instead of saying "enhance" 3 times they say "waifu2x"

  • @marcf6629
    @marcf6629 5 років тому

    I learned about this tool a few years ago on reddit, and it's fantastic. I don't do photo or video work often, but if I find a 1080p wallpaper that I want to use, it's perfect for that.

  • @Toalettduck
    @Toalettduck 4 роки тому +1

    OMFG, I saw this vid like a year ago for the first time, then I was looking for it everywhere 6 months ago, and now it's at the top of my feed. Thanks YT algo you are the best!

  • @bluedeath996
    @bluedeath996 5 років тому +8

    For the Schiit logo, I would have just used the pen tool and make my own vector image of it. It is all straight lines so it is pretty easy. For more complex images, you take your chances.

  • @Napert
    @Napert 5 років тому +110

    did Linus ask any questions about the program and it's name?

    • @ScibbieGames
      @ScibbieGames 5 років тому +54

      "Hey taran what are you using?"
      "Im using waifu2x"

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 5 років тому +1

      I’m new here and I don’t get this

    • @L7vanmatre
      @L7vanmatre 5 років тому +10

      Teran works for LTT, or Linus Tech Tips, and is employed by a man named Linus.

  • @Canal10000
    @Canal10000 5 років тому +1

    Wow nice tool. I downloaded an artwork with low quality (600x400) and then upscaled it two times. It is now my desktop background and it is really sharp!

  • @vocassen
    @vocassen 5 років тому +2

    Finally it gets some attention! Well deserved.
    Have been using it for nearly a year now and absolutely love it!

  • @safir2241
    @safir2241 5 років тому +32

    Weebs: Invent waifu2x
    FBI: WE’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

  • @LastDollie
    @LastDollie 5 років тому +29

    Reeeee
    Non weebs please don't flood the sites with spam requests. One of the original project sites of waifu2x was locked/limited because an app developer from China offered an upscaler app... that used the waifu2x site's resources.
    And of course the app was monetized but effectively DDOS'd the OG site. So because of that abuse, the OG waifu2x site then had to implement an annoying captcha. And I think for a time, it kept banning the whole IP ranges of China because it kept on being abused there. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
    So please upscale responsibly.

  •  4 роки тому +1

    I always wondered how screenshots in LTT videos looked so well. Now I know they have Taran.

  • @AlexanderWilithinIII
    @AlexanderWilithinIII 4 роки тому

    I cannot believe the amount of work you go through for as screenshot that'll be on screen for a few seconds. That's the Taran touch.

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  4 роки тому

      Not always! I've actually been doing it too much lately. Should be using all these techniques only when it really matters. Remember the 80/20 rule.

  • @CryptoTonight9393
    @CryptoTonight9393 5 років тому +14

    I can't tell a single difference between the 2 best buy pages even after playing the A/B part over and over. Good thing I'm an audio engineer lol.

  • @StheH4x0r
    @StheH4x0r 5 років тому +6

    i knew this for a long time already to upscale pictures of anime girls for my wallpaper lol

  • @schaz7563
    @schaz7563 5 років тому

    Not kidding I bookmarked it five years or so ago for some reason, thought it was about anime stuff all the while and then some day randomly opened it. It's massive impressive.

  • @larrimus4309
    @larrimus4309 5 років тому +1

    Holy shit! You're the Taran that works for Linus Media Group! Linus wasn't lying when he said his workers are extremely talented.

  • @gibdopaminepls
    @gibdopaminepls 5 років тому +3

    if you want to process it locally (no limitations but much slower unless you have CUDA), get koroshell. It's a W2x graphic interface with dragndrop

  • @TheSast
    @TheSast 5 років тому +96

    Did u know about Topaz Gigapixel AI? It upscales images similarly to Waifu2x up to 6 times.
    Its AI powered (duh).

    • @amigodesigns
      @amigodesigns 5 років тому +9

      One of the best software for enhacing I have used, a great tool for 3d artists that want to enhance their renders.

    • @nastysdsi
      @nastysdsi 5 років тому +1

      There is also Adobe Photoshop's Preserve Details 2.0, which is faster and a bit better for 2D illustrations.
      (After Effects doesn't have the "2.0" version)
      EDIT: PhotoZoom is very good too.

    • @Schytheron
      @Schytheron 5 років тому +13

      Isn't Waifu2x AI powered too? Their GitHub page suggests that it uses machine learning.

    • @TimeoutMegagameplays
      @TimeoutMegagameplays 5 років тому +8

      @@Schytheron It is

    • @tr7zw
      @tr7zw 5 років тому +13

      @@Schytheron Also if you use the command line/local gui version of waifu2x you have practically no limit on anything. Make 4k images 10 times large cause why not. It will start to eat your graphics card, but upscaling pixelart(64x64) by 20 times is totally doable.

  • @dasemmiyogurt6288
    @dasemmiyogurt6288 4 роки тому +1

    I watched it without knowing who you are. Then you talked about your Titan GPU and I was like "huh, what kind of work does he do?", went on the channel and had to notice that you are one of the editors of LTT. No I am not surprised anymore.

  • @LtdJorge
    @LtdJorge 5 років тому

    Dude, I have to say that you are just amazing. I watched the video editing tutorial and plan to watch it another time, and all I see is that you don't care what you have to do to improve your workflow and pump out better quality, you just do it. Most people doing the same job wouldn't even consider the visual differences mentioned here, this just proves that you want no less than excellence. My complete respects.

  • @ShadowRubberDuck
    @ShadowRubberDuck 5 років тому +76

    How dare you cheat on Dennis-Chan!

  • @Trucktore
    @Trucktore 5 років тому +10

    Id just like to mention that this can also be used for video.I upscaled the whole first episode of yugioh by making it an image sequence in Photoshop, upscaling that folder, then putting the audio back using premiere. I made the 480p video into HD

    • @flameshana9
      @flameshana9 5 років тому

      Upload a sample so we can see it please?

    • @Trucktore
      @Trucktore 5 років тому

      @@flameshana9 i did, got copyrighted :(

    • @flameshana9
      @flameshana9 5 років тому

      @@Trucktore You mean it was completely blocked? Was it on UA-cam? Because there are other sites you can just upload it to.
      Mega.nz and Google Drive are good because they don't delete stuff after a month like usual.

  • @brittlecourage9193
    @brittlecourage9193 3 роки тому

    Dude this video is like a blessing. I've been searching for a way to upscale this really detailed hair texture for a model recently and this looks to be perfect, thanks.

  • @ArtificialDuality
    @ArtificialDuality 5 років тому

    It's always fun to see someone enjoy a feature that has been a thing, and taken for granted in linux desktop environments forever. (the window dragging and scaling.)

  • @_lolucoca_9735
    @_lolucoca_9735 5 років тому +7

    There's no way that the "what I would do before I found my waifu" wasn't intentional.

  • @EnterpriseKnight
    @EnterpriseKnight 5 років тому +5

    This is interesting. I've come across the video of a mugging in the park of the store that I work in and the police asked us to help. (I'm not even joking)

  • @ZalkDrives
    @ZalkDrives 5 років тому

    I have been using this a lot, specifically for graphics mods, turning up the textures resolution. It is SO SATISFYING.

  • @LzysGraphics
    @LzysGraphics 5 років тому +2

    It took me eight minutes to realize I was watching a video by Taran from LMG. Lol, didn't realize until I saw the directory which was Fast as possible and Linus. Awesome stuff!

  • @ei..
    @ei.. 5 років тому +5

    Imagine what others will think when you open a program called waifu2x in school.

  • @erikthered4929
    @erikthered4929 5 років тому +4

    It's been a long time but Illustrator should have it's own vectorizing tool, and there should be some very good third-party plugins available, but I can't offer any suggestions as to what the best ones are in 2019. As you showed though, each tool has it's strengths and weaknesses... but sometimes you just have to spend time working on refining the image after it's vectorized particularly for complex images with small details.

  • @thogameskanaal
    @thogameskanaal 5 років тому

    Thanks for the great information, Taran. I didn't know what Waifu2x was capable of. I just used the free online version and thought that's all it could do. Pretty great how many options it gives you.

  • @HunterReynolds
    @HunterReynolds 5 років тому +1

    I just want to say thank you for sharing this video. I literally learned so much on graphics manipulation as well as refined polishing to my previous workflows! I seriously took notes on this video haha. Aside from Waifu, learning After Effects' "detail preserving upscale", shareX, subpixel rendering, horizontal scaling, proper desaturation, I couldn't thank you enough!

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  5 років тому +1

      ;D
      If you liked that, check out my other tutorials.
      Other good ones are: How to fix gradient posterization
      And: 4 hour tutorial of editing LTT from start to finish.

  • @SPL1NGYDUDE
    @SPL1NGYDUDE 4 роки тому +3

    Its a machine learning algorythm that traces anime lineart into a vector image using the gpu then rasterizes iirc

  • @CTSSTC
    @CTSSTC 5 років тому +5

    I wanted to see waifu on that PIA logo, and then run it through the vectorizer. Don't pit them against each other, get them working together ;)

  • @X4Alpha4X
    @X4Alpha4X 5 років тому +2

    this is such a great video, i genuinely learned a lot here, but there were definitely some things that were lost on me since i can tell i'm watching a native 4k monitor downscaled to fit on my 1080p screen. there were a few comparisons in the web browser where you'd show one that was supposed to look worse, but i honestly couldn't see a difference, but that's because it was already so small on my screen to being with.

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 4 роки тому

    Modders have been using Waifu2x to upscale game textures for a while. Its a great system

  • @Amatsugu
    @Amatsugu 5 років тому +30

    you can make it run a lot faster if you install and settup cuDNN

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 5 років тому +1

      I think the "rendering" time is not the issue but the whole process' duration. Needs a plugin to Premiere/Photoshop.. Something similar or even waifu2x derived will probably be there at some point in the future anyway.

    • @KhamrajRohitTheDarkVoid
      @KhamrajRohitTheDarkVoid 5 років тому +3

      @@rkan2 i was specifically talking about the part where he says you wait forever for it to process. But yea the workflow itself is still lengthy

    • @somedude4122
      @somedude4122 5 років тому

      @@rkan2 It'd be better to have a shell script with ImageMagick or something.

    • @slayerduck
      @slayerduck 5 років тому +5

      Hello my good sir, hoster of waifu2x.booru here. I noticed cudnn doesn't do much with time but it does lower the GPU memory usage by a estimate of 3 for my server. I been running with cudnn for a year now

    • @hime-kamisama
      @hime-kamisama 5 років тому

      @@slayerduck Do you use UpRGB? It's much faster, at least from what the github says "Two-dimensional illustration (UpRGB model): A model that converts at a speed higher than or equal to that of a two-dimensional illustration (RGB model). However, since the amount of memory (VRAM) consumed is larger than that of the RGB model, adjust the division size when forcibly terminating during conversion"

  • @JeremyRight-zi4yp
    @JeremyRight-zi4yp 5 років тому +7

    You shouldn't printscreen websites at all. Rather print to PDF via Ctrl+P and raster the PDF file.

    • @Vladimir_Kv
      @Vladimir_Kv 5 років тому +1

      It doesn't address image quality concerns. Bad images will stay bad images because PDF does not magically create hi-res data from nothing.

  • @theskeletonboi
    @theskeletonboi 5 років тому

    I've been using this tool for years now, it's crazy how useful it is.

  • @OutMagic
    @OutMagic 3 роки тому

    Wow now it's just a built in feature on their website, works like instantly and is freaking amazing dayumn.

  • @Grozdor
    @Grozdor 5 років тому +15

    *reads waifu*
    *clicks instantly*

  • @AerosfilisOfficial
    @AerosfilisOfficial 5 років тому +4

    I can already see why this was made:
    resize waifu pics pulled off twitter or some other website compressing your base image (and yes I know you can access the full size image on twitter but come on, we all know people are lazy)
    Joke aside, I'd love to see that on emulators, I often end up preferring pixelized original image over filtered one with how bad it can be

    • @peperoni_pepino
      @peperoni_pepino 4 роки тому

      I know I'm late, but combine Waifu2x with Saucenao for ultimate pics. (Saucenao beats Google reverse image search hard in the area of anime-style pictures.)

  • @joshhardin666
    @joshhardin666 4 роки тому +1

    If you are attempting to archive websites, most browsers will allow you to save a copy as a zipped web archive in a nice neat package so you never have to worry about upsampling. You can use a browser to rerender at whatever size you need, optionally augmenting or replacing lower quality images that don't scale well with waifu2x versions or versions found online or otherwise hacked together as need requires.

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  4 роки тому

      you are correct, and that is a better/faster/smaller data method for archiving a site (though for important sites, i would still take a full page screenshot, and future browsers might not support all the page's features, thus reconstructing it improperly)
      But my need is to screenshot a site for being put into a video, not to archive it.

  • @Jofoyo
    @Jofoyo 5 років тому

    See, this is why I'm excited for the AI boom and actively learning how to program it, once this stuff is actually implemented into commercial products it's only gonna get better from here on in.

  • @FOREST10PL
    @FOREST10PL 5 років тому +9

    Yeah, the best H264 encoder was made by weebs too (x264).

    • @Deses
      @Deses 5 років тому +6

      Weebs will always find the best way to compress those silly japanese cartoons. I think they call them "anime".

    • @kroolzero
      @kroolzero 5 років тому +4

      @@Deses "Hentai"

    • @ecnirp1340
      @ecnirp1340 5 років тому +5

      only weebs use ASS subtitles as well.

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 4 роки тому +1

      omg is called oTaCkU

  • @UnwovenSleeve
    @UnwovenSleeve 5 років тому +5

    This week on shit Taran finds cool.

  • @Solid_Fuel
    @Solid_Fuel 4 роки тому

    Taran: * excited about nice details *
    Me: * watching without my glasses on *

  • @memorabiliatemporarium2747
    @memorabiliatemporarium2747 4 роки тому

    When I was messing around with w2x, as an experiment, I extracted all the frames from a short video clip, ran them through it with 4x (it took almost the entire day using a GTX 1050ti), converted the frames back into lossless video and added back the audio.
    The result was astonishing. This is the future of upscaling and that Japanese college student who created this should become rich as fuck, if he has the insight.

    • @TaranVH
      @TaranVH  4 роки тому

      This was done for the entirety of Avatar. Check it out: www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/5hv4en/no_spoilers_atla_remastered_in_1080p_completed/

  • @albingrahn5576
    @albingrahn5576 5 років тому +4

    I can just imagine the shame a professional wanting to upscale an image would feel when they have no choice but to use a software that makes it very clear that it was specifically made for upscaling hentai.

    • @awen4784
      @awen4784 5 років тому +1

      anime = hentai? hmmm

    • @albingrahn5576
      @albingrahn5576 5 років тому +1

      @@awen4784 Waifus are considered hentai imo. Even if she isn't necessarily naked it's still a piece of anime being used to sexually pleasure yourself, which falls under the defenition of "hentai" in my book.

    • @weeb8812
      @weeb8812 4 роки тому

      mugi

  • @alecacco
    @alecacco 5 років тому +11

    "At least there's interface, it's not command line"
    what do you mean? Command line and lots of parameters FTW

  • @davidavila179
    @davidavila179 5 років тому

    I'm not a native english speaker, so I didn't really understood the title or the point of the video at first haha I just clicked because of the waifu part. I don't give a shit about waifus so I didn't knew why this was on my feed...but this is really useful! thank you so much, youtube.

  • @plr9305
    @plr9305 4 роки тому +1

    *TY SO MUCH* i was looking for this for a long time :)