If you want birds, there’s the Pairi Daiza wildlife park. It’s the biggest park in Belgium. But soon it will become the biggest park in the world. These days, it’s not even possible to see everything in one day. It’s best to have a season ticket for those who don’t live far away. But for those coming from other countries, there are hotels all over the park. The hotels are located in areas very close to the animals, so you can see them at close quarters, even from your bedroom window.
Yeah, it’s always best to combine different variations to take the best parts of each. That’s the workflow I use all the time.
OMG go to discord and share your images ^^
a HINT for small images/faces
lets say you have an image ~16MP (5000x3000pix)
one person full body, so the head region is aprox 600pix
procedure:
x4 low resolution (maybe facerecover 0.2 or more) and a bit denoise
second
x0.5 Redefinde-Beta
with creative 2
→ you have the best img you can get (~1200pix), really!
Yes, the giraffes haven’t lost as much texture - and it enhanced the texture that should have been there but that didn’t appear in the original.
But they’re also the Topaz products’ fave subjects (“wildlife”). 
Feathers: I tried to do something with a crappy photo of a heron (tiny 519x389 crop) that didn’t wait, so I captured it when it was very far and high (the original photo has a longer side = 6000 pixels, so only 519… very bad, but that’s why I purchased Gigapixel).
First, I completely cleaned the blue sky to a solid blue (the same as in the original photo). To get rid of minor artifacts from the JPG format, and the like. Then (as I describe the editing process for the doe above) I applied Redefine with C=1 and Upscale=1 (the result was a slight but certain visible improvement). In the next step, I used Redefine with C=2 and T=3 and U=2. And finally, High Fidelity with the default parameters offered and another U=2.
The result really surprised me (positively!). To remember, I wrote a text prompt for Redefine (see below) here – it helped a little, but I don’t know what or what part of it:
A grey heron in the blue sky, flying from left to right with wings spread wide, legs outstretched and a long neck in the shape of a flat letter “S”. The feathers on the back of the wings and at their tips are dark, almost black; the rest of the feathers are white or light gray. The heron flies calmly from one pond to another.
What do you think caused the artifacts around all the edges of the Heron?
I’d say over-sharpening. But it’s easy to correct. The background is a uniform blue. All you have to do is redo the same blue by distorting the bird.
That’s going to be a lot of photos hahaha. But if you’ve got a Facebook account, check out my page ‘HDL photo Pairi Daiza’. I’ve added my albums from 2013 to now.
most depend on original, mostly bad smartphone images!
same i found out works also for you!
2x upscale v2
after
0.5x redefine c1 or c2
Those white artifacts/(out)lines appear (not only here) whenever I go to Redefine with C > 1. Any changes to Texture do not remove it. The culprit is Creativity (too creative). The attached image shows a situation where the original (after Redefine with C=1) was changed by C=2 (T had no effect). The next step (with High Fidelity) does nothing about it.
Increasing C is hopeless, it makes the image worse, and creates artifacts in the blue sky. Similarly, for Upscale > 2 changes occur, e.g. for U=4 the rear outstretched legs change to a second head, with the beak pointing backwards. I don’t know what to do with it. But the previously mentioned procedure improved the feather texture and created a nice head (the text prompt contributed very significantly to this).
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on this photo, I had to do a variation with Low res v2. and blur the sky a bit afterwards because there was still the grid problem. For the record, I used the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The latest smartphone from Samsung this year. I shot in Raw
Pure RAW → Capture One → Photoshop → Gigapixel X.X.X (Redefine)
Pure RAW → Capture One
Pure RAW → Capture One → Photoshop → Gigapixel X.X.X (Redefine)
Pure RAW → Capture One
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I can only say something if I had the original … ^^ but maybe it depend on that r2 recover …
Gigapixel 8.3.3 was working just fine. (MacBook Pro, Apple M2 chip, 24GB Ram, Sequoia 15.3.2, Painfully slow for large files, but working. Now, when I try to use it, I get an immediate crash.
By the way, is there an option to take the result of a GPAI output directly as input for a second GPAI pass? Two- (or more) pass workflows pretty often occur, especially when starting with Redefine, and it is somewhat annoying to have to drag the input for pass #2 to the GPAI window already containing that image. Or is this functionality already there and I haven’t yet found it?
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I’ve been looking for exactly that several times – but never found it. I’d like to have it available too.
