Discussion | Super Focus Selection workflow

I have an image and I only apply super focus in this case. The preview (Mayor, all image, 60%) takes forever (its fine, i have an old card, but being able to just select an small area would be nice) and shows a nice sharpening of the yellow fin of a fish (see image), but when applied to the image, the sharpness is gone and it gets totally blurry - the fin is even worse imho than in the original. I would assume, that the preview is what i get later.

Original:


Preview:

Final application:

On my system the blurred fin happens even in preview.

Using Motion Blur Sharpening produces a result with better fidelity than Super Focus does in this case.

Adding some Local Contrast Enhancement in PS can be helpful too.

It is strange, that it behaves differently for you than for me.
Yes, I did end up using sharpen and denoise to improve clarity.

However, my main goal was to point out that inconsistence (also the super sharpen result in preview for me looked better, so it would be nice to achieve that) and with you getting a different result, i am even more confused, what is going on there.

Others have expressed the same desire to have the preview match the final output. It seems that all of the AI generated Enhancements are prone to some amount of unpredictability in the results. It’s as if they start from a random seed rather than following the same deterministic process each time it runs.

Super Focus messed up the photo for me. Just upscaling by factor two and adjusting the brightness looks better to me.

Hello,

Can you tell us what the selection is on the Super Focus?

  • Click on the Super Focus enhancement and let us know what the selection is.
  • If selection is not set to “all,” the fish in the back might not be part of the selection and might not receive any adjustment.

Please note that Super Focus might not be the best enhancement here to recover this image. Since it’s not out of focus, it can create artifacts.

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