Upscaling / Enlarging

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Upscaling / Enlarging

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Thanks to fellow “XnThusiast” cday, I learned about a freeware program the other day that promises better image scaling quality and can upscale and enlarge photos better than Photoshop's “Preserve Details” algorithm: Steffen Gerlach's “A Sharper Scaling is a high quality image scaling technology mainly developed for upscaling.”
XnTriq ([url=http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=65403#p65403]Corrupt jpegs, thumbnail extracted...[/url]) wrote:
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Re: Upscaling / Enlarging

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Upscaling icons, drawings
http://waifu2x.me/
It's a on-line utility , upscaling up to 10x10, using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
(it's a bit slow, so test with small pictures)
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Classic soft
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Using Waifu
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You can also clean photos for jpeg artefacts : (style: photo, magnification :0 , noise reduction high)
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Thank you for the examples, michel038 :-D
cday had brought waifu2x to my attention last year when it was first released to the public, but at the time I failed to realize that its potential uses go beyond anime-style art.
XnTriq ([url=http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=110938#p110938]Pixel art scaling algorithms such as hq2x, 2xsai, etc[/url]) wrote:
  • Microsoft Research
    • Depixelizing Pixel Art
      Naïve upsampling of pixel art images leads to unsatisfactory results. Our algorithm extracts a smooth, resolution-independent vector representation from the image which is suitable for high-resolution display devices.
  • Pixenlarge
    Pixenlarge is an image enlargement tool. It is distributed both as a plug in for Adobe Photoshop and also as a standalone application. It is mainly specialized in enlarging drawn images, such as e.g. clip arts, icons, drawings, sketches, cartoons etc.
  • Scale2x
    Scale2x is real-time graphics effect able to increase the size of small bitmaps guessing the missing pixels without blurring the images.
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Re: Upscaling / Enlarging

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Two more good ones (both free :D )

http://www.fitswork.de/software/softw_en.php
http://cas.eedept.kobe-u.ac.jp/WelcomeE ... ex_en.html

SAR's PseudoLAD is my fav though.

PS: And this for pixel art: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbrz/ (Get ScalerTest app)

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Thanks, captaincavern!

Tutorials I found helpful (JavaScript required):
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FSR 2.0 which is open source, can also be used to upscale still images, besides renders... command line only for now:
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2