Gigapixel AI - the results are SHOCKING ... in a good way!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I recently tested out a trial version of Gigapixel AI and was shocked by the results it produces:
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I've been using it for a couple of months. 17 years ago I took a very long trip though rural Mexico for several months. My camera was a Sony Cybershot U-20 - 2mpxl spy camera. (would love to have a newer version of it, but alas, that's the cell phone.) They were interesting, but not great. And tiny. So I bought Gigapixel AI for pretty much a salvage operation - and it does a very good job. I'm very happy with those results.
I've watched several review videos on Gigapixel AI and they're all positive and some give very high praise indeed. Yours is a pretty fair review Dave. I have been using Sharpen AI for a few weeks and it does a remarkable job. Gigapixel is on my to buy list.
I bought the Suite that was on sale late last year (I think) and one thing I just (today) used in Sharpen AI was the Stabilize feature. I take a lot of 'off the cuff' shots in markets and motion blur happens, sometimes, ruining shots even for Instagram. Tried it today and 'holy sh#t!' - absolute magic!
Yep! It's strange but I mostly use Stabilize even though I shoot using a tripod and the improvement is certainly magic!!
I've been using denoise ai from topaz for six months or so. Awesome bit of software if you shoot a lot in low light. I was sceptical at first but was blown away by how good it is
Yes I really didn't expect the results that I got to be fair
I've been playing with this for awhile. I found it gives the most natural results with landscapes. It can do an amazing job in certain situations. Other times it's just weird. I enhanced a desert landscape scene with lots of sandstone, trees and sagebrush in the picture. A weird deformed, half human - half sandstone face suddenly appeared in the hillside! I thought it was a quirk but it repeats every time with this particular scene. Except for the creepy face, the rest of the hillside appears natural and very detailed.
I agree. $100 for the program is alot of money. I also would only use it when needed and not on every photo. Ill be willing to pay at max maybe $50.
If you do a lot of deep cropping, Gigapixel AI returns enough pixels to make a decent size print.
I don't really have a need for enlarging photos, but I tried their Denoise AI program. Color me impressed. I tried it on a few shots I took with the 100-400 in poor light that ended up quite noisy, and I reduced the noise while keeping the image acceptably sharp. I won't claim it performs miracles but definitely can be the difference between a keeper and a shot that goes in the recycling bin. Top notch.
I used Gigapixel AI to upsize my 12MP holiday photograph to 418MP and make it into a photo wallpaper (284×260cm). Let me know if you'd like to see the result.
I don't think you actually had to upscale it that much.
I have a 120 x 80 -ish print from a Canon 20d.
If you have never used a 20 d then I can just tell you that in bright daylight at ISO 100, you almost get noise in bright parts.
Ok slight exaggeration...
But still my print looks fine. And that is a very old 8 Mpix (if I remember correctly) camera.
i want to see the results , i have similar thing to print (450x300cm)
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I have a 44" roll fed HP z3100 that I occasionally use to print (mostly) Disney Parks vacation pics for my daughter's room and my office. I have been tempted to buy this software many times, but like you said, for $100US, I just can't wrap my arms around justifying it, though I'm sure it would probably be worth the investment in the long run.
I think it's done an admirable job. No, it's not perfect, but in fairness, our own eyes can't tell us what half that pixelated stuff is supposed to look like; if our brains can't interpret it, it's unreasonable to expect Gigapixel to. I think the best use for this software is to take a good quality base image from a lower resolution sensor -- like 12MP for example -- and upsize it to something that looks as though it came from a 36MP sensor in order to make a much bigger enlargement that looks credible. That way, you don't have to rush out and buy a high megapixel camera.
Hmm, I should test this on some old 35 mm slide and color negative scans - could be interesting.
I’d like to see what it would do on a proper file and not something that came from social media. I am thinking of buying this program because I do have a certain file which I want to upscale and print big for my wall.
I actually really wanted to try it out and see how effective the upscaling was specifically for video remastering. Thanks for the video
I'm fairly certain I've heard another photographer here on YT mention this software for printing large prints. $100 is not bad if you make a lot of large prints. I wonder how good this will work for astrophotography when you have to use a high ISO. I don't suppose you could try it out for us and let us know? I think where this could really come in handy is when you have to drop your images.
Would this work on scanned copies of old prints?
In theory yes although I haven't actually tried it.
Pretty amazing results!
I have a few photos from a trip I toke to tofino a few years ago with my SONY A7RIII that I lost the originals for and all I have now are 2 megapixel copies and I wanted to get some larger prints done of a few of them I would say 40$ is a fair price for what I would consider to be mostly an insurance policy I don't think it would be able to bring back the original detail from the 42 megapixel image that is now a 2 megapixel image but at this point it may be worth a shot
Put it in context it will significantly improve an image it will struggle to salvage a ship wreck just as you would
2 is one and one is none. Gotta have them backups
Thank you!!!
Hi. Quick question. Got old photos from 1mpx camera I want to preserve. Did anyone tried, whats better, enlarging them using Gigapixel or use Sharpen AI 1st to add some details? Since they are just small JPG files I guess would be good to export them as TIFF or PNG. Thanks
Can't really comment on Sharpen AI since I haven't tried it, however Gigapixel has its own inbuilt sharpening along with the resizing so that will probably work just as well
@@DaveMcKeegan Thanks. I noticed it in one of the videos. Decided in meantime to sharpen unfocused 1st and then enlarge. Only 2 times, but exported them as TIFF too
they maybe could offer it as a service...
You should do the old cop license plate trick! See if it works
Is the free version a time limited trial?
From memory I believe its a 30 day trail
You can get the full version for free that is available at macapps-download.com/topaz-gigapixel-ai/
Great shot of the strip. I've got a similar one from about 11 years ago. Hand held, pin sharp 😁
did you really had to add "in a good way" in the title?
People might have taken 'shocking' to mean bad
FocalBlade, use it.
I have been using it a view month ago and had mixed results. In some cases, the results were very good. Sharpness has mostly improved. The resolution of my pictures was much better than in your example. I used it for large scale prints. But in some cases I had some strange artefacts in the texture, whereas the traditionally scaled pictures using Qimage Ultimate were fine. The Qimage ones were usually a bit softer though put accurate. It really depends on the picture at hand. It is definitely a good program, if you do a lot of up-scaling of low resolution pictures. If accuracy was important, I found Qimage the better choice.
easy subscribe after just 1:23
congrats!
great tool but too expensive...like other said, if it's under 50 dollars, I will buy it immediately.
Yeah tested it myself, point being anything beyond 24Mpixel is ... pretty much useless. 12M pixel should be enough. Welcome to the real world Neo. And thats an early version. AI resizing is amazing. Btw. Even Photoshop has a better upsizing buildin. You need to activate test features and it comes up in a pulldown. "Preserve Details 2.0". But its not as good as Gigapixel AI.
The guy I mentioned above said the same thing. He even said that v.1 of "Preserve Detail" in PS consistently gave better results than v.2. And he proved it with examples.
That's witchcraft! 😱
Shutup and focus on the screen.....we don't want gigapixel to speak so much....we want to see it
WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT
Torrent it is
I reckon its 'AI' goes to Google and downloads a similar image and matches up areas it can identify onto your photo 😁
Completely impossible.
The software has no clue this is Las Vegas. Perhaps if it was the original file with GPS coordinates.
But uploaded and downloaded from Facebook. No.
And, it was all done in 30 seconds.
It just can't be done.
Sure it won't be long before we are at the point of being able to grab a shot from streetview and then AI to whatever time of day/weather conditions/shutter speed blur that we want :D
@@TheHellis I was extrapolating the huawei phones moon mode technology
You should clean up your work place before shooting a video.
You have issues bud.
@@dohc1974?
I've been using Topaz Denoise AI to clean up my noisier wildlife photos for a few months. While Adobe is on top of most new software trends, the Topaz folks are likely using new advances in deep learning (CNN Autoencoders) to move further than Adobe. Smaller companies with better focus are pushing the boundaries. Topaz is a lot better than any denoise algos I've used in Lightroom or CaptureOne. I will give the Gigapixel a try then too. Great video.
Adam Muise did you try DxO? (PRIME Denoise in PhotoLab)
Smaller companies with better focus are pushing the boundaries.,,,,Ahhh i love this.
Hi, I wonder if Topaz has a good deinterlacing algorithm?
Topaz is constantly having specials. I think I bought my version for about 30 bucks last Fall.
I might have to keep an eye out for those :)
where did you find for 30$? =)
After much waffling on (skip to 6min) the seemingly more important information starts. Thanks for the information, I will definitely try this...thanks!
Lost my time...
Why you talk about things you COMPLETELY do not understand?
I was sharing my experience of trying out a piece of software for the first time, for those who haven't seen it before - apologies if that offends you
I didn't realise the rule was people aren't allowed to talk about things unless they "completely" understand every single detail inside and out about that topic inside and out.
Hi all, we have used the full range of Topaz software for years, worth every penny.
Its brilliant for CGI stuff too, i can render at a lower res then upscale, saving days of render time...
Denoise is also amazing at cleaning up all the animation frames before they get compiled into a video.
Very cool software. It's great your were able to recover your image to a usable state... and thank you for not turning this into another "back up your crap" monologue. We get that subtext. I really appreciate your very approachable content. There is hope for us. Lol.
Something similar was shown some years ago when Paris was shot with multiple shots where the photos were stitched together as you describes it.I was amazed how to zoom in a every detail.
I was an early adopter in 2004 buying a Minolta Dimage A2 but with sad results,so in afterwards.The photo technology got so fast improvements during the 00-10,so I finally adopted the more convienent way of shooting where you always have it in your pocket .The smartphone is always there on your walks when you discover something interesting to shoot.
Personally, I don't know about any of you "other guys" out there.
But, I would almost give up my first born than give up the Topaz Labs programs!
They are as close to miraculous as we, being mere humans, are likely to get.
AND they are super when it comes to service AFTER the sale when the vast majority, as we all know turn a blind eye to us and forget about us.
Awesome video.
Viesus is also alternative option.
It is cloud based AI solution which is useful in enhancing and upscaling images and provides perfect high resolution images.
You can find it by searching it in your browser.
down side, for me at lease is its expensive for what it is. dont get me wrong it does 1 thing and does it well, but thats it. it only does 1 thing. i paid $40 for pixelmator pro and it does various things well
Great video, and now you have a subscriber from Southern Africa, Eswatini to be precise
gotta say these new ai tools are awesome. might have to get one of these. i tried out another video upscaler and its really cool !
Does this mean I don’t have to sell my Nikon D3 to get Nikon D850 similar shots ?
Why would you keep your rare and once in a lifetime images on just one hard drive ? I keep all my images on archival discs and back those up ( 2 discs raw and 2 discs jpeg ) when I 50 gig I create another blue ray disc so now my images are on 5 different discs. I also back all these up on two separate hard drives and a blue ray hard drive. On top of all this I put all the best ones on Flickr, yes I know they are all jpeg but it's a cheap way for online storage.
Mistakes are there to learn from :P
you are talk too much
Check out Topaz Denoise which is particularly impressive
Would be interesting so see a quality comparison with the same picture and the same scaling with Photoshops "Preserve details 2.0". As far as I know this method uses Adobes AI called Adobe Sensei. Have you tried the same scaling of this picture in Photoshop with "Preserve details 2.0"?
Any time I see something advertised on Facebook I assume it's a scam.
i make a photobook and some cuts of my images are to small.
The programm is incredible. i tried the 30 days free try out and pimp all of my needed pictures
I agree. There are not that many circumstances when GP would be a necessity, for me it might be heavy cropping of a small bird or some such.
Try this. Check the resolution of the original file. If you upscale a 10Mp file by 2x you will get a 40Mp file because of inverse square. I use GP sometimes but rarely go past 1.5x when up scaling because that still doubles the resolution and any changes I make I want them to be subtle. I use a Canon 5D4 and if I upscale a file by 2x I'd get a 120Mp file. I can't imagine ever needing that much resolution so I don't think I'd use 3 or 4x ever.
This is probably a worst-case scenario...and it performed very well. Where Gig really shines and is far more useful is when you start to really crop an image. With my Sony A7RIV...I can crop severely to say 4 mp...and using Denoise...still razor-sharp. But my printer thinks I used a 4mp camera...and a 16X20 will look...terrible. Gig can make that 4mp into 24mp easily...and I cannot tell the difference...and neither can my printer. Gig gives me options. I can shoot wide (you still have to have good glass btw)... crop down ...and then res up and get an amazing print. No other software can do what gig does.
I realize that this video is over a year old, but I just saw it and I have a question.
You pretty much jumped immediately to a 4x upres. What if you had done the same amount of enlargement, but took smaller increments? (IE. If you were to scale the 1000pixel side to 1500, then 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, and finally to 4000 pixels would the results be better?) I can see how they might be since between each of the jumps, the amount of interpolation that the software has to do is significantly less.
great review and funny on your line regarding the face refinement
Respect, fam. Excellent vid. I'm sold. Gave up chasing lenses.....my iPhone will now become a real camera. I saw what you did there!
Like Dave I have downloaded the trail version - got 6 days to play with it before making a decision. Only one thing I have noticed is that it takes for ever and a day to convert to a .jpg and virtually an overnight job if you want a .tiff (using 2013 27" Mac) - also there are changes to Exposure and Contrast from the original.
Luminar AI or all of the Topazlabs products? your opinion ?
Both
I use luminar 3, luminar AI have ordered luminar NEO have aurora HDR and topaz Denoise AI ,sharpen AI, gigapixel AI
I use it to upscale and restore reddit image reposts if the original is missing
Have you tried data recovery?
If not, be careful, there are a lot of scammers...
Quite interesting, really. Would you compare with the intelligent upscaling that Adobe has put (in Photoshop and After Effects, if I recall correctly)?
Anyway, the more information you give to an AI-based software, the more it will be able to figure out missing information, so maybe this works even better if you take an huge image and want to make it even bigger, like for giant wall posters and ads. Why don't you try the software with another panorama purposely shot to have a lot of details? Or just high res, at least...
Maybe people who take landscapes with a Fuji 100Mp camera will find this useful, or commercial photographers.
Although it wasn't Dave, a very reputable channel (I forget who) did this very comparison just a few months back. Very detailed and almost scientific in the approach. Quick version. Gigapixel AI blew all the others out of the water. Hands down. Wasn't even close. It was not sponsored and neither am I.
I think this was the one. There are several out there now. th-cam.com/video/GHnBMuPE48k/w-d-xo.html
You'd get your money back on one truck or bus wrap
Can you possibly do an episode on tripods. I just broke my first tripod a few months ago and have been looking for a new one since. I would like to upgrade but they get so expensive, so it would be nice to get advice on a variety of tripods from a cheaper to more expensive. And are these expensive tripods really worth the price. My range is around $150-175. It doesn’t have to have a head but it would be nice, Because I have an older ball head that’s still works, but I’m starting to notice some slippage. Problem is I’m saving for a new irix wide angle and a new camera(hopefully the R5 if canon doesn’t cripple it to much) and I don’t want a new tripod to kill what I’ve already saved.
th-cam.com/video/XxdEDctorO0/w-d-xo.html - I did such a video about a year ago, hopefully it will help
Great video thanks! I have a few panoramas taken with a DJI Mavic Mini that I've been trying to blow up to print and hang on my wall, but the image quality is terrible at larger sizes. DO you think this will help in that area?
Based on what I saw with this trail then I think it will certainly do a better job than just enlarging the resolution, however I couldn't say if it would do a good enough job for a large print
Can it sharpen only but not enlarge the photo?
I believe it can sharpen without needing to enlarge
The 2x resize is better than the 4x for most photos.
I did notice that, however 4x still did a great job overall and I wanted to push it that bit more just to test it
@@DaveMcKeegan 4x file is much bigger than 2x not proportionnaly . file size go 3times the 2x size
From what I see here and what I've tried, it does a great job in some cases, but also huge distortions in other cases, and in those cases, I actually prefer the original ugly photos. For example at 9:12, I can tell on the right photo that it's a car park, very easily, but on the "enhanced" photo on the left, I can't really tell what it is because it made it look like some plants.
Exactly. I am shocked that people don't seem to understand that machine learning is nothing else than guessing. It doesn't improve your photos, it ruins your photos as in the end you can't trust your photo anymore. Every single detail of the new result could be fake. Maybe people don't care whether a photo depicts truth. That's very alarming.
Dog calm down it does not matter that much
Amazing I really have to get round to buying it
I may be interested in this. I have an A7III and do crop quite a few of my images. Could this work in lieu of buying a higher megapixel camera for the time being? I would love to up res them for printing or a book I’m working on. I’m going to give it a try.
It will go someway towards trying to replicate a higher resolution camera but it will never be able truly match it, at least not all the time
I downloaded the trial version of the software and it worked perfectly on a heavy crop image. The image went from roughly a 4x6 to 8x10 and with the additional sharpening the image looks better and printed nicely. I think I will end up buying it. Thanks for reviewing it.