Smart Upscaler — Use ML to improve and enlarge images for free

@visualpharm Hi Ivan, First of all, congratulations to the team for this awesome product launch. I am documenting journey of makers, creators, entrepreneurs through out the world. The goal is to do a short interview, capture it in video, and let it out to the world, so that others can get inspiration. And also to get an acknowledgement, for you, and for your hustle. If you are interested please feel free to contact me interested at tellmeaboutit510{at}gmail.com . Thanks, and good luck! Subodh

Really cool application. I tried it out, and I can easily say that it works well, but not too long ago, I found a better alternative. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for an image enhancer, but all I could find was some rubbish applications. I tried to use them, but all of my pictures turned out blurry and of low quality. After some, I was randomly browsing through the internet, and I ran into a really interesting website https://depositphotos.com/upscal... that had a photo upscaler online. I decided to give it a shot, and I was shocked by how well it worked. If anyone is looking for a similar application, then I would love to recommend it since it is the best you can find.

@andy_mantle exactly! It works great for * Vectors. Upscaler removes the pixelation, preserving the sharpness. * Good photos that are scaled down. Fun idea: buying the cheaper low res from stock photo websites, then upscaling them. It works worse with text, with blurry photos, photos taken with a bad camera, printed and scanned photos, and high grain. It does what it does: improves the resolution, which is not the same as a great looking image. One of our next projects is making the bad images like this look like they're taken with an iPhone today. Long way here yet :)

@visualpharm this sounds great! I can really see a benefit for many people with this. Are you considering the Integration side currently or is it just the standalone and bulk upload features that you are aiming for? I can see there is an option for Bulk image upload to use the API but I think this tool could be really powerful one integrated on an app or on a website for end users!

@andy_mantle an update one year later: 1. Bulk processing - done 2. Integration - we've integrated it into our https://icons8.com/lunacy so far 3. Coming is a plugin for Figma

@victor_krylov 🖤

@senya yep.

@nastya_grebneva 🖤

@sandochee still there? We stress tested it, but didn't expect it be #1 product of the day 😆

@visualpharm Nice job !! I love it, it's good for being listed on https://undesign.learn.uno (once again !!)

@sandochee 🖤 I'll upvote and follow you right now.

@dayaz36 that's awesome and we'll try it exactly as you said. We've already have a background removal (which we use on scale for an easier task, removing backgrounds at our Generated Photos and we make a lot of scene composing at our Photo Creator, so this would be a natural next step. Why do you want to make it with your phone? What's the use case?

@visualpharm Sorry for the late reply. I feel like this would be a very popular consumer facing feature that needs to exist on it's own outside of professional photo editing software. Having it on the phone would be the most user friendly and ubiquitous. And touch would be a natural medium for this application. Before Instagram, filters were only done in photo editing software's. Now it's standard on all social media platforms. I feel like this should also be standard editing tool outside of PS. Thanks for everything you guys are doing. I can't wait for this! Please make another PH post when it's ready. I'm sure that will be a very popular one! Cheers

@johnbhiggins letsenhance: we work better with vectors and logos, they work better for most photos. Photoshop and Topaz Labs — we didn't check it, but I'd like to see the comparisons!

@johnbhiggins test: 4x of this image https://photos.icons8.com/photos... Anybody with Topaz and Photoshop at hand?

@johnbhiggins Click to enlarge Original image: https://icons8.com/ouch/style/pa...

@johnbhiggins I've used Auto, but when I choose Beta, I see the same result:

@johnbhiggins I've played more and the best one I could get is for the explicit "Illustration" mode PS Testing is awesome. I'd love to see the tests from the community. Also, I'd love to see the suggestions: where do you miss it? What are some actual use cases? We can optimize both the AI model and UX for your goals.

@futhey I'm glad to hear that. I'd be glad if you share the results here — so we know what kind of images we should pay attention to.

@merrillhefdy it shouldn't be this way. Can you save it with right click -> Save as...?

@mightyalex I tried and it still works fine. There should be something else — a specific browser, extension, configuration, or file. I'm willing to track it down and fix it!

@visualpharm It was same on Safari and Chrome on mac if that matters. Minor bug however - my file just happened to be named file.JPG

@mightyalex here we go, for some reason I can reproduce it now. Thanks a ton, Mr. Mighty! Will fix.

@esaia_khaile many many thanks! You know how to motivate.

@noormagi sorry! is it still like that? We stress tested it, but didn't expect it be #1 product of the day 😆

@jessehojjensen we remove them soon after. We don't use them for training or anything else. Todo: formal privacy policy.

@peteliev many thanks! If you try it, post your results here (if it's safe for work, haha)

@valeripotchekailov man, I love your reactions 👏