That’s truly incredible what you’re been able to achieve with such a poor reference image and in the past you’ve shown numerous brilliant examples of what you can do with different AI apps other than using Topaz software.
Although, you’ve done a great job with this image the applications you’ve using are more for creative people like yourself who likes to learn and experiment with such AI apps to further expand their creativity basically, taking the real and making it surreal.
Whereas, the majority of people who buy Topaz Photo or Gigapixel are more likely to use them, for enhancing Photographs or Art trying to keep it real as possible with the littlest amount of effort possible
Steven, was doing just that he purchase Topaz Gigapixel for the purpose of enhancing 8mm Stills.
This is a Gigapixel Topic and Steven, mentioned he uses Photoshop so, for my example’s I did use Topaz Photo over Gigapixel simply because, that’s my preferred Application when working with Photographs and Photoshop simply because, Steven mentioned it if he hadn’t I would have just used the Topaz software along or told him to use an image editor Photoshop or similar.
So, bearing that in mind, would you be so kind as to do your magic once more and have another try but this time only using the software Steven is using or at least give a more detailed description of the software you used and explaining in-depth the steps you took to achieve your results so, others might learn from your skills.
I completely understand that Gigapixel isn’t really built for rescuing extremely low-resolution or heavily degraded images. As one of the Topaz team members said:
“To be honest, this isn’t an image that any software can truly recover.”
— alexandre.topazlabs
That pretty much confirms it’s currently beyond what Topaz Gigapixel (or any Topaz tool) can restore.
Still, I was curious, so I ran the exact same tiny, low-quality source through a couple of other AI restoration models just to see what might be possible.
My only goal in sharing this is to hopefully spark a bit of inspiration for the Topaz team. Gigapixel is already outstanding—especially with the new Wonder model, which is a massive improvement over the older Recover and Redefine models—but there’s always room to push the boundaries even further. Maybe one day we’ll see a specialized “extreme recovery” mode that can tackle these nearly impossible cases.
Please don’t take this as criticism; I genuinely love Gigapixel. For these ultra-low-resolution situations, though, I’ve found that combining specialized third-party restoration tools as a pre-processing step (before feeding the result into Gigapixel) often saves time and produces dramatically better final output.
Think of it like the relationship between Lightroom/Photoshop and Gigapixel: they’re not competitors; they’re perfect teammates. The right specialized tool can clean up and reconstruct details that would otherwise be lost forever, giving Gigapixel a much stronger foundation to work its magic.
Anyway, just wanted to share the experiment in case it’s useful or motivating. Keep up the amazing work—Gigapixel keeps getting better with every release!
