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- Skip to 06:00 for the Topaz Labs demo. #Midjourney is great for creating images, but they're not big enough to print, by using a second machine learning system, Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI we can smartly scale them up, while the AI fills in the gaps.
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Thanks! This video was made at a time when Midjourney was new, so I kinda had to explain what it was for people who didn't know.
Now MJ is everywhere I'm going to reshoot this without the first half 😁
thx
I want to be able to upscale from Midjourney size to 1.5 metres, is there an upscaler that can do that, yet?
@@revdancattthanks. I appreciate your effort into the video but as a youtube viewer people just love getting straight to the point that the title mentioned
This video is amazing. You go right to the point and you explain everything very well and thoroughly. The quality of your content all around is great. This deserves more views!
Thanks, I try to nail things in the first 30 second when I can, lol!
Thank you for the 30 second version! Literallly everything I wanted to know lol TH-camrs need to take note of that
I'm new to your videos, but I just want to let you know that I really enjoy the few I've watched, so far. I can't wait to go through and watch the others! You give great information in an easy to comprehend way. Thank you so much for making the videos. 😁
Thank you so much, I enjoy making them!
300dpi over a 1m is great!
I'm so intrigued by how the art industry will gradually shift towards becoming better at utilizing the AIs the create something intended than actually drawing oneself. Many complain about losing jobs, but I think it'll rather be a new evolution of how artists work in the future. Essentially an explosion of expressions and efficiency.
Yeah, I think there'll still be lots of room for "traditional" artists, and a whole generation who have always worked _with_ AI, which is going to be fun to watch.
Completely agree with what you said about printing your images. When I do a big print for a project or photograph, it lets me look at it as if it wasn't my own in a way. I find it very useful.
Yup, when something is sitting on the wall for a while you have a different relationship with it. You discover if you're always spotting new things in there, or if your eye gets bored if it after a while.
You’re so good at explaining things Dan, thanks a lot
Hey Susan, thank you, I hope you have fun with Midjourney.
Thank you so much for your videos! You're an excellent instructor, you explain everything so simplistically and you get right to the point.
Wow, thank you!
What a great and educative video!
For a non-native English speaker (like me) you are so easy to understand.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Deciding to WATCH your video was MORE a VISION THING 😁
Your shirt caught me
Thanks for the walk through. I really liked how you showed the examples and comparisons. Helped me a tone!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Dan - just subbed. I stumbled upon this same combination this week so your video is timely. I had been upscaling with Photoshop or Luminar Neo with blurry results when trying to work on abstract landscapes created with Midjourney - Topaz Gigapixel has been a game changer.
Thanks, and yeah Topaz is great, last year they really come on in leaps and bounds.
i've been playing around with Midjourney after watching your other video ! As an artist/ designer its fascinating and inspiring !
Also really digging your approach and work !
Thank you so much!
Thank you, I loved your video formatting & clear explanations.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this amazingly helpful video. Cheers Dan!
Glad to help.
Thanks so much I never heard of topaz. I'm just getting started on all this stuff.
Great video! By the way, I love your office/studio. Very nice!
This video was so very well explained , showcasing the details and difference between the different software's was excellent. thank you!
Thanks, glad you find it useful!
Easy to digest content! great video! thank you
I just subbed, Topaz is worth every penny. It’s awesome.
Amazing work!! Lot of thinking, analysing, hats off to you 👍
Thank you!
I have this software and use it every day. But judging from some of the comments I am not sure that people know that "pixels" and "DPI" are 2 different things?
👍 - love this comment...it's like "money doesn't grow on trees" ..(when it was paper)
Thanks so much! I was getting tired of finding AI upscalers with subscriptions attached. Topaz was on sale so I grabbed
it straight away to get some work done for Redbubble!
Hah, Black Friday sale? Perfect timing. Good luck with the Redbubble!
exactly what I was looking for. thank you
You are welcome!
i love how you explain things. Learned something new today! Thanks! you're awesome!
Happy to hear that!
This is really useful! Thank you for sharing this!
Hey, any time!
So glad I saw this video. Thanks
This is the exact video I needed. Thanks!!!!
Yay, hope its solved all your scaling needs 😁
Great video! Thank you so much!! Really appreciated this!
Brilliant video, very insightful. The direct comparison on digital and print was extremely useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and nice art!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Ok I love when I'm looking up something and then freaking find someone I know with exactly the info I was looking for. Hi Dan!
Hey hey!! Hope you're doing well, and yeah, I really need to update this video 😁
@@revdancatt as long as updating is not "actually don't buy Gigapixel"…I was about to plop down for it.
Nope, it's all good (getting better infact) - some of the the comments here suggest I should explain what 72dpi vs 300dpi means (and why we should only worry about pixel count anyway).
Really like your vlogs! I'm also a big fan of Topaz
Awesome! Thank you!
Whoa, I just found out about Gigapixel earlier this week and was instantly sold after seeing it upscale a piece of digital artwork I had bought. I’ve used it on a few midjourney outputs already and also highly recommend it for anyone that deals with DPI.
Yeah, I was kinda sceptical before trying it, but I'm really glad I did. Midjourney will get there one day with the larger size, but for the moment this is a great way to get print sized images.
Dan Catt when generating images on mid journey that I intend to create poster-size printouts, what would be a good aspect ratio to create knowing that I intend to use topaz afterward to upscale it to the final output size for poster? Thank you!
@@Envisionenactenjoy A pretty good ratio to use is 8:10 or 10:8, those are both fairly standard Art Print ratios.
Dan Catt well appreciated Dan!!
No problem, and good luck!
I just printed a 3'x8' display for commercial display without any special scaling except for up scaling in Photoshop. The results were amazing. If you have PS then you don't need any other software.
Thank you so much for explaining the printing sizes, it's muuuch clearer now
Glad it helped, and thanks for the comment.
THIS was helpful
Alway happy to help.
Great video! Super informative and well made.
Glad you liked it!
Very good video demonstration! Thanks for sharing about printing quality improvements for Ai images. you have a new subscriber to your channel. i hope to see more videos like this, and how to edit and fix "imperfections" details in the generated images. But with the more latest midjourney versions. Are you using version 2 or 3 here? Because of the very abstract style...
Love your SoM shirt!!!
Thank you so much for sharing very very perfect for what i need ❤
You are so welcome!
Super T-shirt! And I've been enjoying this little method for a few months since I got into DDv5.2, The prints look great.
One thing I have been experimenting with lately, and at work, is using Topaz to create 3D animations at a slower framerate. I wonder how that could apply to a DD or DALLE-2 animation...
Haha, first person to comment on the t-shirt! I know the Topaz people have a similar thing for video, but sounds like you're planning something slightly different. Would be interested to see the result.
hey Dan, do you have a workflow for prints for the entire suite? including denoise + sharpen (maybe even a retouching with Lightroom). Would be lovely mate. Cheers, earned a subscriber.
Great content - very informative. Thank you 🙏😊
Glad it helped
Thanks so much. This was very helpful!!
Glad it helped.
And this week, Topaz delivers to us, Topaz Photo AI
Very good video Dan !!
Thank you, that's very kind.
Very interesting and great presentation.
Great! Exactly what I was looking for 😃
Phew! Glad to have helped 😁
Topaz and other AI Upscalers are doing a LOT of magic, but for those who are "stuck" with Photoshop or Affinity I got also a little workaround:
1. Set a new Project with the desired format, insert the image and scale it up according to the document borders
2. Convert the image to a "Smart Object", apply a "Camera Raw Filter" and set the "Structure" Parameter to something between 30% - 60%
3. Duplicate the Processed Layer and set the upper Layer to "Overlay", apply a "High Pass Filter" and set it to something between 3 and 6
A little Reminder: This will NOT replace any kind of AI Upscale Magic, and it will work better for BW and Monochromatic images. Sometimes it will be enough, many times it needs further tweaking. Another Option is to do a final retouch by adding the 2 Layers to another Smart Object and repeating steps 2 and 3, sometimes adding an "Unsharp Mask" will also reveal more detail.
Hey Dan, just came across your videos - amazing work mate; you are really engaging and very good at explaining and showcasing :) Thanks for doing this, much appreciated! I wanted to ask, do you have some experience or tips on using MJ/other AI tools to generate art and printed it on wearables (t-shirts, tote-bags), etc.? Any advice or references would be superb!
Hey hey, I have a couple of tips. The first is to order sample packs. For example Spoonflower is here: www.spoonflower.com/en/sample-pack
I use Contrado here in the UK: www.contrado.co.uk/fabric-swatch-pack
That's probably the best way to get an idea of how different fabrics hold the colour. Sometimes you need to punch up the colour a bit on your designs for example. I would honestly do that before anything else.
The other is to try and get high resolution, but this video covers that.
The last is, for printing onto t-shirts/fabric have a look for places that do dye sublimation printing. This is a good way of "printing" designs onto fabric that won't fade in the wash.
Hope this helps.
@@revdancatt Thanks for the answer mate; really appreciate it! I will give it a go over the next month and let you know on the results.
No worries, would love to see how you get on. Being able to hold stuff and seeing things printed out is a whole different experience.
Thank you, kind sir :)
BIG thank you sir. Very useful.
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Top shelf audio quality throughout as well. Would love to know ur audio setup. Excellent.
Ah thanks, mainly Røde Wireless Go 2 mics, a giant sound blanket behind the camera to remove the echos (that's doing most of the work tbh) and a little boost in the EQ settings.
This is great, thanks!
Thanks!
Excellent video
Great music taste
thank you so much
You're welcome!
very helpful ! thank you !
Glad to hear that!
What a great video!!!
Excellent
Cool, informative video.
Hey Dan,
first of all: Thank you so much for this awesome video, I really use Topaz a lot on so many things and it really blows my mind what details it can find in some lower resolution material!
A totally offtopic question: What printer do you use for your digital prints :D ? I really liked the blacks and the detail on your prints!
Not off topic at all 😁 I get my printing done at The Print Space: www.theprintspace.co.uk/
They're using Epson UltraChrome HDX Wide Gamut Inks on Epson Sure Color P9000, I'm selecting the Hahnemühle German Etching paper.
And yeah, Topaz is pretty amazing.
good old hahnemühle it is 😁
thx foryour reply ❤️
@@revdancatt hey Dan, thank you so much for your video!!
I'm so happy you mentioned the print space, I've been looking into working with this company and ordered three samples but if they were only 6-7 inches of course and felt a bit disappointed about the fact that this would be the only size i could offer. So I'm really happy topaz can do the job so well!!
About the print space, do you use that paper for all your works? Or do you have specific recommendations for which papers are better for a particular image?
Also, do you know if they use that specific ink for all their prints?
One question please, how you prepare the color with photoshop? Do you work with the adobe rgb space and then when exporting you pass it to cmyk? Or do you directly work the file with the cmyk space? midjourney images if viewed with cmyk, change a bit, especially more magenta. Thank you for your content.
😁 Smiled when you bigged up printing and hanging your work when you have absolutely nothing on your walls...... Great video, keep up the good work.
Thank you. Nothing like holding your work and the relationship you build with it when it's in your life every day.
I tried the Gigapixel demo (which leaves a watermark all over everything so you aren't fully able to evaluate it). For my use though, which is mainly preparing old historical photos for publication, I would have to say no, that it doesn't seem very good. It takes too many freedoms and simply leaves what it doesn't understand alone so that some parts of the image no longer blends naturally with the rest. The result had a phony look. But for a Midjourney image which is fantasy to begin with I'm sure it would work a lot better, yes.
As for enlarging with Photoshop, there are settings apart from automatic that might take you further. Also there is Lightrooms "Super resolution" enhance which is still not great but better for my kind of use where you have a real photo and don't want it ending up looking fake.
Nice video, your enthusiasm is infectious!
Try Ai Photo & Art Enhancer, it is much more forceful in upscaling and there are some models that are not for photos.
@@fpham8004 Thank you but it I see that it is Windows only. We only have Macs here at my workplace un fortunately.
I was wondering a little bit more about the printing. Any advice for what kind of printer should one use for printing in a home studio for large 20 inch sized prints? Where does one find archival paper or archival ink? I think many digital artists who didnt go to design school like me missed out on production techniques such as paper choice and working with printers.
Really interesting and useful, thank you! Do you print at home and if so what printer do you use?
Hey I don't (yet), I use a print service down in London called "The Print Space" (www.theprintspace.co.uk/) HOWEVER, I've been looking into printers to buy and I'm going to get the Epsom P900 in the next couple of months.
Great video!!!!
Hey thanks!
Any tips on colour management when printing from Midjourney images? Are they generated in srgb? Should we assign a profile? Does it make a difference when printing (inkjet) using Adobe RGB or SRGB? Thanks for the video.
lets say i want to add texts to the image, do i use topaz before or after adding the text? and is canva okay to use for that if i were to print on a shirt? thanks!
Sisters of Mercy!!!
It's a great album!
Question for you... Once I've scaled up my image can I re-load the upscaled image and then allow Topaz to upscale it again?
Great video.. midjourney user here.. bought and tried topaz gigapixel yesterday.. you are great at explaining all of the pixel information and how gigapixel upscales.. my question is this.. how to get gigapixel to save a png image at 300ppi for acceptance from clip art companies that require high res 300 ppi or dpi images .. my gigapixel saves at 96.. my only solution was to send to ps and upscale there, but will I lose sharpness and clarity? Thanks for any help.
Loved this video. I bought the software but I don't know how to upscale the images to 300 dpi. I upscaled my artwork 6x in Art/CG and it came out awesome but only 72 dpi. What am I doing wrong?
Sorry about the late reply, I need to make a follow up video. As long as you're 6x the image then it doesn't matter what it says the dpi is, the only thing that matters is how many pixels you now have. 72dpi is a hangover from when monitors had about 72 pixels per inch. So images created digitally (and assumed to be for screen) where assigned the metadata of 72dpi, while things created in photoshop where often assigned 300dpi, even though they were the same size.
What's happening here is your original image is "72dpi" so the scaled up one is still "72dpi", even though it has more pixels. Just take the number of pixels it has across and divide by 300 that's your dpi. So if you now have a 6,480 pixel wide image, you can now print that happily at 6,480 / 300 inches = 21.6 inches. In theory it would display on OLD monitors at 6,480/72dpi = 90 inches!!! Lol. Hope that kinda makes sense, ignore what dpi it tells you, just use the pixel and divide by 300.
@@revdancatt Thank you so much.
Great video thank you! What do you recommend for printing? Is there a good print on demand service you like?
I use The Print Space: www.theprintspace.com/
What you're looking for is somewhere that does "Giclee" printing, and paper like Hahnemühle Pearl, Photorag or German Etching. Ilford Cotton Textured is also a good paper.
I have another video here which may be useful: th-cam.com/video/SwFGVFUAs4Y/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much for your video :). I'm trying out the trial version of Topaz Labs Gigapixel before deciding if I should purchase it or not. How did you upscale your image by 600 percent? Cuz I can only see the buttons for 2x, 4x and 6x. Thank you!
Giving the trail a try is the way to go for sure.
6x = 600%, hope this helps.
Thank you so much for this! I have a couple of questions if that's ok. Before I even put in a prompt, I've got my MJ default settings set to 'High Quality' and 'Regular Upscale' - are these the best defaults to generate images ready to print, or should I be choosing light upscale or beta upscale? The image styles I usually work with are 3d hyper real photography style. My second question is, if I want to make alterations to the image in photoshop, do you recommend making the edits on the PNG before upscaling, or on the JPEG after upscaling? Thank you! :)
The HQ and Regular upscale should do you fine, Topaz will be doing most of the work.
For alterations, for things like removing spots or small cleaning up I'd use the Spot Healing Brush in Content-Aware mode on the PNG _before_ scaling up.
If they're fairly big alterations, then I'd scale up first and page them on the JPEG. Hope this helps
@@revdancatt that is so helpful, thank you! My edits are mostly things like evening out the background to fix unwanted vignetting. I was worried that upscaling and converting to a jpeg, editing, then saving it again as a jpeg might risk over-compressing the file. Do you think it's pretty safe as long as it's just one round of edits? Thanks for your video covering this subject by the way, there seem to be surprisingly few tutorials on preparing MJ images for good quality prints, much less ones that are really clear.
@@maddiem5921 If you're in photoshop I'd just save out as a PNG each time wherever I could.
The images created by Midjourney are PNGs, and Topaz exports the scaled up version as a PNG too. So you should be able to do all your edits as PNGs, and only drop down to jpg at the end if needed.
Not sure if this was mentioned because I didn't watch all the way through, but I've been using Gigapixels since it first came out. It's great and supposedly the best upscaler out there. But for photography there are limitations, the higher the resolution you go, the more fake it looks. It still looks clean and noise free but you're not going to get a 30x40" print and think "wow, that looks flawless". Maybe one day but not today.
HI, can you choose what size to scale to, say 7200 x 10800 @ 300dpi ? (given the image is the correct aspect ratio to start with)
Only for that t-shirt you have very big plus and like from me. Anyway very interesting content, good info.
Haha, thanks, the t-shirt has gotten a surprising amount of attention.
the deal breaker for me is that both programs are subcription based. I have a midjourney sub right now, probably wouldn't take on another one until I get rid of this one, unless I was working for a bigger company (in which case, at least with MJ, I'd be stuck paying a bigger fee anyway). It's awesome to see these tools but I don't see them actually changing anything in the culture (besides reducing the payout for artists) until competitive open source options appear. Thanks for sharing this info!
topaz Gigapixel is a one time purchase, not subscription based.
Yeah, I picked up Gigapixel in a sale, they seem to come around fairly often so totally worth waiting for one.
Thanks for the vid! Your auto-focus was a bit distracting... maybe lock it next time? Haha.. Other than that, I really appreciated the content and you sharing your insights. Keep up the good work. Much appreciated.
Lovely video. I got a question, though. Everybody is always saying that you need to have 300 DPI for your Prints. But as far as I can see, you can't simply change the DPI in Topaz Gigapixel to 300. Why is that? How can I go about this problem?
I find the low-resolution Topaz model better for upscaling Midjourney, although I'm still using version 5.8 because it works better for what I do. The Art & CG model tends to keep more variation in almost flat areas but it makes edges wider (eg. blue skies keep more detail in the blue, but the edge of a tree and the leaves lose fine detail). Obviously different models work better for different images... 4x scaling seems to be the sweet spot for me, which gives 8.2k x 4.6k ~= 38MP images
Ah that's good to know. I know the 6x is too much for what I'm printing. Midjourney keeps getting closer and closer to outputting a decent resolution to print at anyway, which is pretty amazing.
For me I’ve found Natural or Low-Res working best, I upscale “beta” images in painterly styles, so I like it to preserve the faux brushstroke details
Great content. I have a doubt. I believe that the images created with midjourney are 72 dpi. After I upscale the image with gigapixel I will get 300 dpi by default?
Thanks.
im curious about that too? did it work?
What do you recommend for high quality printing for these crazy AI pictures? I was looking for something “museum quality” for the good images.
I'd suggest finding somewhere that does "Fine Art Giclee printing", which is basically slightly fancier than your normal inkjet printer. The paper counts for a lot, so finding something like Hahnemühle Photorag or Ilford Cotton Textured will look pretty good.
If I wanna change the aspect ratio of the ai images. How do I do it with gigapixel?? Is there anyway around it using just the gigapixel??
Brilliant video! Watch out on using copyright music though! Loved the bit of Frankie all the same
hello how do i see a friends page with all there art in one spot thank you
my question is, is it possible to print mid-journey images as wallpapers? Iv tried every possible way and since midjourney producing images at 72 DPI its not possible to enlarge it as a wallpaper. But is there a way it can create 300 DPI images so atleast when expanding the blurryness is gone?
useful indeed, still a bit confusing though. i use gigapixel, but when u open it in the standard photo-editor of windows it say the image is at 96 dpi. its very confusing.
Great video that also makes me realize that I’d watch a twitch channel of people making AI art 😂
Hah, that would be pretty amazing, I'd have that going in the background too.
Did not read all comment above yet. But did you manage to create svg file with Midjourney and print with your axidraw. Wondering if text to vector is possible ? Not sure if it make sense an a feasible use case but well this crossed my mind thanks
Hah, not yet, that would be a thing. I've had it output vector looking illustrations (which are of course images), which could be converted to SVG. Hmmmmm, you may be onto something here, a future video perhaps!
How does Topaz compare to Photoshop's 'neural filter' called super zoom??
so I upscaled using TOPAZ, bumping the midjourney photo up to 5400x3600 px, but Im not seeing the 300 DPI conversion. When I place photo in MS PAINT for example, it says 96 DPI. How can that be?
I came here for the Sisters of Mercy shirt!
Hahahah, SISTERS representing.
Hello, I am using Midjourney AI to make coloring book pages for instant download as well as amazon coloring books. When I do photography I have Raw images and therefore I can print with 300 resolution. after upscaling using topaz labs software, the image is much larger and looks great but the resolution is still at 72? how can i change this 72 res to 300 for printing? (I use photoshop)
Anyone know how I can guarantee getting (& setting) an upscale with topaz that will generate a 300dpi image
Subscribed, like your style, wonder what else you get up to
Hey Luke, thanks man!
Hello ! Great video ! Which printer do you use ?
I get my printing done with an Epson Sure Color P9000
Hi, I made art with midjourney AI, and then used vanceAI to upscale it to 8x, but now I have 8192x8192 photo with only 72 DPI.. the file size is around 60mb. if I use Clideo software to supposedly increase my dpi to 300, the file size is like 5mb.. So I don't think it actually makes it any better, because I assume with better quality the size is bigger. Is Topaz able to fix this problem for me or are there any other issues that I already made coming this far? What do you recommend I do? I wanna be able to sell good quality print on demand products. Thank you