Just right click on any image and select “Open with”
GigaPixel will show up in the list.
At least on Mac.
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I seem to be missing that feature. I only have Photoshop listed but not other apps. I am on windows so I’m not sure if its related to OS.
original: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oldklio8jyulv9m/DSC_5968.tif?dl=0
PaulM, please try to increase x4 this and show 100% crop result and preview.
Yes, the v451.48 was released on 24th June 
PS installed now…
Not a big issue. It doesn’t work! And maybe it’s not even supposed to work. 
I think part of the difference in results we’re having is from the way we have the noise and blur reduction parameters set. I have less artifacts in the preview, and the final result is only marginally degraded (less micro-grain). If I use the Natural setting then the preview and the result are a very close match, though a little less distinct than what this achieved.
This is using my RTX 2070 Super GPU with High Memory and Max Quality AI Models.
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There is no pain and I don’t see how it can be considered a bug, the point was that if you have a crap image, nothing can provide the information that isn’t there. Using heavily compressed mages will never work as information is missing, and what I see here with some of the TIF & PNG images used as input to GigaPixel is that, because of the result from GigaPixel, they were created from compressed images before input.
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But there can be a happy ending to my story as this is the result after processing the image through JPEGtoRAW,JPEG Artifacts and Reduce Blur were set to maximum and saving the output as TIF then taking it into GigaPixelAI where a 4x result is this:
Note that I consider this acceptable with a little work to replace the eyeball on the right of the image and remove the highlights under the nose and a little compression artifacts also remain.
Amazing considering the original is a highly compressed 229 x 436 still image taken on a Sony camcorder in 1999. Being a cheap charlie I kept it as I paid the boy the equivalent of 50 cents to pose.
Note also that the Natural Mode simply does not work in this case, I had to use Man Made. The moral of this story is this:
- Rubbish in will generally give rubbish out.
- Extremely low quality JPEGs benefit by taking them through JPEGtoRAW to remove compression artifacts.
- Vary the process settings to get the result you want, the Auto settings are good for 100% resolution images, i.e. with NO compression.
- There is always a struggle with blown out shadows and highlights, where there is no information nothing can be retrieved except manually.
- Finally … the preview will invariably be a little better than the output.
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Not good, redo it! When compared, usually used the same piece of image is compared. Please, make like andymagee-52287
Excuse me? No, I’m not your secretary and I’ve wasted enough time on this already. And as I’ve made my position perfectly clear, I’m finished with this discussion.
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But there can be a happy ending to my story as this is the result after processing the image through JPEGtoRAW,JPEG Artifacts and Reduce Blur were set to maximum and saving the output as TIF…
Too bad that JPEGtoRAW only (arbitrarily) accepts JPEG images as source. If your source image is of any other kind (usually lossless PNG when exported from a PDF) then it adds another step of work and possible compression artifacts.
Coming back to GP. I just tried to upscale a low resolution image full of kids from my son’s elementary school class. Face refinement improved the mostly distorted faces, but the result was rather creepy, especially when adult face-features and make-up were put in by GP.
You may want to try JPEGtoRAW first, especially because of the faces as it seems to help … saves the creepy with distorted faces from low res using TIF output. If you do then upscale not more than 4x at a time on any low res input.
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J2R completely changed the color-profile resulting in overall desaturation and color-shifts (blue to purple, cyan to blue). It also introduced extra color-noise at aliasing edges that was not originally present (GPU more than CPU).
The “creepy” part is not the distorted faces, though, as this is somewhat expected. The creepy part is where different faces are put on familiar ones, especially with the adult features and make-up (on elementary school kids usually not wearing that).
That seems unusual as in my example I asked for the profile to be changed to ProPhotoRGB and there are no issues. Are you using TIF and not DNG output?
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The issue turned out to be Faststone Image Viewer and XNView only being able to handle 8-bit files and the (missing) “conversion” from 16-bit TIFF to 8-bit caused the desaturation and color shift. Photoshop does not suffer from this.
The additional color-noise holds still true, though, and there is lots of it. So no improvement for this particular picture.
Eh ah!
I’ve did write with a Fineart Photographer last week about Gigapixel and Denoise and he said he would never use it because both does make very ugly artifacts.
I understand him on a “fineart” point, if you photograph classical and have the highest end Camera and glass (@100% its also as muddy as with Full Frame, but at 100 or 150 MP you have still the resolution and 16bit color dept).
But at my point as a part day Pro helping out in a Studio is the stuff that Topaz does produce a gamechanger, that set us apart from the others and let us photograph at situations that would be possible before yea, but not with this high quality output.
I also don’t had the problem that the output from any of the Topaz AI stuff did differ from preview and i use them since they came out.
But i use Pro GPUs since 2014, before these i did use gaming stuff and had some problems that were very weird.
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The Problem with GP is that it does copy what it does “see”, you may work on this image with denoise or jpegtoraw before.
