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"Supported image types: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, WebP, APNG, FLIF, MNG"
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Nov 14, 2019 - 12:58 PM
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Metryq
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@Solium: Okay, I figured you might have Photoshop, GIMP, or some other image editor. The elephant in the room question is: why do you need an up-scaler?
While the GAN technology is interesting, and will no doubt get better, it is still computer generated "detail." Through AI, a machine can be taught where to sharpen or detail an image. A fixed pattern, like interpolation, simply makes the image large and fuzzy—producing a larger file without any actual increase in information.
If you are looking for a better image of something found on-line, you probably know that the image portion of Google search can find larger versions of a given photo. TinEye does something similar, but can hunt down the original of an image that has been edited.
Until GANs are fully ready, a human artist is still best. Rick Van Koert, the artist at 4f-creations.com, has made a career of turning postage-stamp sized Web photos into glossy, poster-sized, high-res images. And he started when "postage-stamp sized" was all there was on the Web. His site includes tutorials on his technique. It's a manual technique, but he has learned to do it very quickly.
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And any program can only do so much; depends on the pixels/data it has to work with. No program can work magic ... yet.
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