Would also have been interesting with a fix for users with special characters in their “install paths” not being able to launch in a normal manner without having to run as admin and creating new user folders in the process…
All is good but her smile, incredible detail but bad teeth, ha! Not sure if the horse is smiling…
Things I’m noticing:
•Getting repeated crashes when batch rendering only 3 images
•After a render at Creativity = 6, if you go back in and lower the amount and re-render, they will immediately process with no change unless you go down to 3
•In the beta and 8.0.0 release version I was getting square blotches throughout certain images, I will watch for that in 8.0.1
Seriously, and unfortunately, Mac users are not able to realistically run these new features. Of course you can run them overnight, but I would worry about frying the computer after awhile. I’m normally a Mac user and I did try an overnight batch awhile ago but it crashed sometime along the way.
You’ll see my posts where I use high-end PCs for these tasks. Thankfully I have access to them or I could not do any of this fun stuff so readily.
I too noticed the lack of CPU usage on the Macs (RAM as well), not sure why. The devs will have to weigh in. I’m hoping at some point this can be addressed because surely the Macs have some decent power to be tapped.
I am not impressed with 8.01
Very compressed option is not available.
I tried many of the options on an image and no improvement.
Not going to waste my time on trying to.
I also have a powerful workstation but its linux. I can get great results using the self hostable Ai tools for resizing and inpainting. Ive always used the topaz products to scale and detail on the go , especially since its so much easier to batch process. I am really struggling to find the value if I cant use it in a meaningful way on my Mac though. Windows is just not an option for me. Im also finding on the images I process in he cloud the new Ai models put some strange textures in.
Hope they come out with some patches or credit mac users some way with cloud credits until they get their apple silocon issues worked out.
You’ll notice at the lowest Creativity level, you get an enlarged and clarified version of the original, not a reinterpretation. Once you get up into the higher levels, any person in your photo will morph into someone we will call “Topaz Girl”, since one of our members noted these girls all have the same basic face
Detail is always good at any level though (6X @ 100%):
Note the same “bad teeth” that we saw in my Horse Girl render earlier.
Irish Girl has two sisters who live in the Middle East called “Desert Girl 1” and “Desert Girl 2”. Same progression, same great detail and same bad teeth… And too much sun and not enough water!
When Redefine first came along as beta I generated a bunch of wild examples of those “strange textures” from a scenic that you can see at the bottom of my blog post. I need to try some more of that!
As for the cloud, it’s a wonderful experience if you have the credits and don’t mind the “roll of the dice” aspect of it.
PS: If you’re just “Gigapixeling” your existing AI renders on the Mac it’s not painful at all, it’s just the interpretive Redefine that hurts – but it’s a lot of fun in its own AI way.
I don’t have as nice examples of AI artwork as you do. I tried, among other things, Redefine (Beta) with Creativity 6, Texture 5, just for fun and what it actually does. I have a feeling that it won’t be very useful for my photos (I would prefer to remove artifacts e.g. in the sky, etc., but as I follow the development of new versions of Gigapixel, I won’t live to see it).
A seagull appeared on a pond (I hope I guessed the bird name correctly). A rough, blurry photo from a distance. The original is in the first picture. I tried the new Redefine function (with upscale 4x) for a while (locally) to see if it would do anything before going back to old fashioned editing to improve the poor photo a bit. It seems to me that the best result achieved is shown in the second image. I haven’t been able to accurately identify the amazing creature (of seagull origin) but I think I might venture to name it a pondgull?
