Has anyone tried Upscayl (open source AI image upscaler)?

[hatsnp (Nuno Paulino)]

These are some threads worth looking into, which also contain info about other upscalers and esrgan models:

Anyone use upscayle regularly?

Just curious if anyone uses upscayle for photographic images (or anything else). I came across this post by @lylejk G'MIC 3.0: A Third Dose to Process Your Images! (Summary of 2 Years of Development) - #13 by lylejk I tried it on this image - a very heavy crop that someone wanted a 8x12in print of. It worked fairly well - maybe not miraculously, but made a real difference in terms of printability. At least if you don’t look too close. Before [DSC_9798_01] After [DSC_9798_01_upscayl_…

Upscayl vs Upscaler

There’s a lot of conversation about using AI and neural networks in art lately. One direction this technology is evolving in is producing better looking upscaled images. The software has to pretty much paint in the details that weren’t there originally which requires some training. We’ve seen algorithms like waifu2x in the past, then there was ESRGAN, Gigapixel by Topaz and others, and now the latest iteration is Real-ESRGAN which attempts to make the original technology better suited for deali…