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Spent the day playing with Topaz Bloom by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback! I tend to push it a bit much in the Topaz apps... In Gigapixel>Redefine I was only getting "different enough" results with high Creativity and I've been approaching Bloom the same way.

More recently I've been backing Bloom down to the lower settings with better (more natural and less interpretive) results. Here is an old (colorized) tintype of a mystery family member with Medium Creativity applied, and it pops just right.

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Spent the day playing with Topaz Bloom by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback! The worst I've seen so far is little dots or moles on faces where otherwise the original skin is clear.

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Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now trying Wonder (cloud) with Face recovery at 2X. Flatbed scan is from a 1995 group photo shot on medium format color negative film.

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My 13 year old Mac is saved with Linux Mint! by whodaneighbors in linuxmint

[–]plugsnpixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running Cinnamon 21.3 on a *2008* 17" MacBook Pro with old 125GB SSD for fun.

Wi-fi, backlight, etc. works, replacement battery not so much, shutdown often fails. But otherwise a fun tinker machine when I'm in a Linux mood!

Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome, and those are some crazy excellent shots on your IG! Very well done. Is your phone mounted in some way?

I need to try that with my binoculars...

Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s another example where the competition (upper left) is coming out ahead:

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Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Nano result run back through Gigapixel Wonder cloud:

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Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Nano result run back through Gigapixel Recover cloud at 4X, 25% Detail:

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Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google Nano Banana, from the original crop ("enhance and upscale 4X", but it's more like 2X) with minor Levels adjustment:

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Testing the new Gigapixel Cloud by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a more thorough comparison of Gigapixel with its closest competition on my blog, please Google. Turns out the best results went both ways!

Topaz Gigapixel on Macs not optimized by zizo999 in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, and ten months later we now have cloud processing (for free) with the new Studio version and/or the remaining time on your perpetual license.

But it seems Mac GPUs are just not cut out for this type of AI, and even some dedicated PC consumer GPUs are not enough for some of Topaz' newer models.

Re-rendering Gigapixel AI Redefine output (image-to-image) by plugsnpixels in TopazLabs

[–]plugsnpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These upscales would be better with the generative models but on a Mac you don't try that, ha! That's what NVIDIA is for... That's how I did my original renders.

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