Today I'm going to put Topaz Gigapixel to the test by throwing a bunch of different images at it to see how well it handles it using both the standard modes and the new recovery mode which is a step up and of course if you want to check out Topaz at any point there's a link in the description. Now I'm not going to spend a long here but this is the Topaz Gigapixel interface you may have seen an ad going around where they demonstrate a cookie upscale so I thought I'd try something similar along with a bunch of other images so at the moment this is high fidelity but we also have recovery mode of course there are also some basic settings here and including face recovery which i have used on some of these images but you see here already the big difference from one to the other now recovery mode is a little bit more full-on i click on recovery mode it's not designed for large images but i can still take a section like this chalk chip cookie sort of like chalk chip bit and it generates a preview and as you can see already that looks pretty good i compare it to the original big step up in quality but here's the thing recovery mode takes a lot longer to process even on my computer which is relatively new and powerful but this is topaz's top upscaler right now and i think that topaz is the best on the market in my opinion so let's upscale all these images and jump into the comparisons so this is the original cookie image and i've upscaled it by six using the high fidelity profile now you can't see much here but if i swing this across we get the new version on the right now we're not zoomed in so it's very hard to see the difference So what I'm going to do, I'm going to zoom in a bit closer and we see we have the slider here. As I drag it across we're up very close you can see how much detail has been added. So you can see we're zoomed in again and already you can see a big difference here.
Now this is using high fidelity and by moving the slider you can just see how much this particular chalk chip which we've pretty much already seen upscales. And for this particular angle we can see the edge of the cookie and some of that crumbly bit there. You can see what we had before and the way it's converted some of that underneath.
So this is the standard upscale using high fidelity but what happens we switch to recovery mode. Before I actually zoom in I've noticed already you can see the difference zoomed out here and I'm going to zoom in closer in a sec but straight away just looking at the detail these chalk chips and that there it really adds a hell of a lot to that image. You can see the original and check out the amount of detail and texture is added to every part of this image. So this has all been created using AI. I bring it back, this is what it was working with and this is what recovery mode was able to create for us.
Even has that cookie looking embedded inside the dough. If I come down a bit, you look over here and just see those little edges. I bring that slider over it really sharpens it up and does a great job of bringing out every tiny detail that this image would have had, had it been shot.
Now obviously these aren't the real details, these are AI generated. but you sort of get the idea of what's possible and how it's able to sort of read the image and use AI to fill in those gaps. So that is the cookie using both high fidelity and recovery.
But what if we compare high fidelity to recovery? So now we're zoomed in 400% and this is the normal upscale using high fidelity. Come across to see recovery and check out the difference in sharpness just on this chalk chip. The texture is kind of gone from... what looks like a softer image to a very detailed image down to the little crust around the around the actual chalk chip it's really done a fantastic job if i keep it going you can see how this dough looks kind of soft and now it looks like a proper hard cookie surface so i thought it was cool to start with that because a lot of people i think have been calling out that cookie video saying it's fake but you can see when using recovery mode you get a really excellent result with topaz gigapixel So now we could put a bunch of different images to the test.
And I really want to explore how good Topaz Gigapixel handles these images, both with the recovery mode and also the face recovery option, just to see what we can get out of these different images. Next, we have this Cornholio image, which I created a few years ago just for a bit of fun. And it's upscaled again, 6x.
And again, we can't really see from here. But let's zoom in on some of this detail. We're already at 200%. This is the image.
It's starting to look a bit fuzzy. We bring that across. and we can see how much of that noise has been introduced effectively and it's sharpened up those edges so straight away a big difference but if i zoom in a bit further we have this mouth area here very fuzzy drag this across look how sharp that outline has become this is also using the high fidelity setting now i didn't do a recovery mode on this one i thought this was pretty good as it is and it's actually and i don't think it needs any further quality being artwork this bit particular image I thought was pretty good using high fidelity just as it is.
Next we have this image of a deer which has also been upscaled using high fidelity but this is the original we've upscaled it by six so you can see some of the detail here is a little bit pixelated if I drag this across check out the eye for one how crisp that reflection is and how good the fur is this is also just using high fidelity and i do have a recovery one to check after this but it's done a great job with the whiskers it's not perfect but it's pretty good especially around these areas with the fur but i want to zoom in on that eye a bit there are some limitations to the platform we're using to compare these but check out the difference between this pixelated eye and it's actually created literally like the eyelid around the black around the eye and it's pretty pixelated there but that is a really awesome result what happens when we compare the original to the recovery image now this one is really impressive the fur has turned out a little bit different the eye is super sharp but check out the whiskers down the left over here each one like an individual little piece of hair lit by the sun this is an excellent upscale now again if i zoom in this is the information that we have this is the upscale that looks like it's actually part of the image but if you look over at the eye it's pretty good but to be honest i was more impressed with high fidelity on the eye but there's no reason you can't simply upscale both and sort of combine the elements you like in photoshop afterwards but let's compare high fidelity to recovery so this is our high fidelity image and on the right is our recovery mode image now having zoomed out a little bit the recovery eye looks much sharper so for viewing from a distance i think recovery mode is actually fast period on the eye despite what i thought everything looks a lot softer it still looks pretty good but especially this here you can see some weird artifacts but we come across recovery mode really fixes those up we have the eye from high fidelity to recovery and although The fur seems less natural up close. It translates better from a distance. I move over to say the mouth and nose and although that's a little out of focus we check out little whiskers around here.
Big difference. This looks like it's actually the original photo. In my opinion if you showed me that I probably would not think it was an AI upscale but it is. It's absolutely incredible. Here's something that's completely different.
It's a screenshot from a 1980s Transformers episode. It's about 600 pixels by 321 pixels and is very sort of blurry choppy but what you'd expect from a screen capture from an old tv show. Now I've used the low resolution model here not high fidelity for once and check out the difference in sharpness but the problem is it can't guess some of the detail but most of the image gets really sharpened up. We'll check out the details here on Optimus Prime and it has completely sharpened that up.
There's a little bit of messiness here, the face looks pretty passable but as far as actually upscaling an extremely low resolution low quality image it's sharpened up a cartoon extremely well. Now I'm not going to zoom in too much with this because what I want to do is jump into recovery mode to show you an even bigger difference. I'm not suggesting you use this to upscale cartoon screenshots but this is just a great sort of demonstration. Now if I zoom across this time it hasn't sharpened these up quite as much.
It actually looks a little bit more natural, even though we lose some detail here. But when we get to Optimus Prime, there's less mistakes, and it's done a better job of sort of knowing its limitations, I think, here. Although we do have a little bit of a pattern showing up on the arm. But otherwise, if we zoom in around this area, so I'm zoomed right in at 400%, and come across, check out the difference.
That is... Absolutely insane for what we've given it. Optimus Prime's face.
Come back, got this here and I do have to scroll down, move that across and that's looking a lot better. Even the details being drawn on the hand, which are almost impossible to see, are being guessed, I think pretty effectively. So the difference in that is quite incredible.
And again, the low resolution versus the recovery. The low resolution is much sharper in some areas, but a little too sharp in others. Again, you could combine these two, but check out the difference. Absolutely insane. So choosing the right model for the right image is definitely a game changer when upscaling in Topaz Gigapixel.
I cannot believe the detail it's able to introduce here. This time we have some AIR generated Pikachu and another one where we get a little bit of fur. And I've used the standard model to upscale this one. Can't see much here, so we need to zoom in. We see Pikachu's facial features, the eyes.
And I bring this across in standard. It's done a great job of introducing fur, sharpening up that area, come over a bit more, you can see from the nose across all the bits of fur and texture it's added here, really cool and check out that fur you can see how it's really sharpened this up coming back and forth fuzzy to furry, really awesome stuff but I've also run recovery mode on this image also. Again recovery mode does a great job of making things much sharper.
Details in the eye and the fur much sharper and cleaner overall even down to some of the fur down here It's really tidy that up and added some sort of depth and dimension To that area which will compare with the standard in a minute I zoom right in again and check out as we come across Helps been able to interpret this here as hair in front of the red detail it's added to the nose and the mouth the eye you can see the brown iris on the eye here pretty pretty great and still doing a great job with that fur really tidying it up like i said you come down here check out the detail across and you can see how well it's transformed that detail even down to if you look at some of these individual strands of hair it hasn't just generated an image It's literally generated in that exact same pattern so you get a pretty accurate sort of feel. And the way it adds a lot more shadow into the hair to give it a real 3D look is pretty impressive. But let's compare it to the standard upscale.
So we zoomed in on the standard upscale. And it's funny because recovery almost looks like an upscale of the standard upscale when you compare. It's done a great job from the original. But moving on to recovery, it's like a whole new image in here.
It's really, this is probably the most impressive AI upscaling I think I've seen around at all. And I keep moving. Check out the difference in how clean the hair is. Again, you can also combine these.
The hair down the bottom here has a very, here it looks a little bit artificial, but when you come across with recovery mode, it's neatened up every little strand. It looks absolutely fantastic. And again, we'll check out the belly section here.
This is the standard upscale. in the recovery mode so this actually is pretty good as it is but this is just next level and makes it look completely different so that's using AIR let's move on to some other AIR to see how it turned out this mid journey image looking a little bit sort of pixelated i've got another high fidelity upscale it's done a great job of cleaning that up now this also has Face recovery mode turned on just a little bit. So it is good at recovering some of those facial features.
We're going to touch on a specific photo soon for that. You can see the eyes here, completely different. The texture on the skin and the bits of hair, it's handled this image exceptionally.
It looks almost like a real photo. Even the mouth, which here looks pretty clean. Doesn't look a little bit artificial, but considering what's been given, It's done an awesome job.
So let's try recovery mode to see what it's able to do there. So now we have our original and recovery mode. I think it's done as good a job, although the texture may be a little bit more natural.
Check out the difference here with the eye, pixelated and the eyelashes. It actually creates eyelashes around the eye. A little bit of a stuff up here, but that was actually in the original image.
So it's done a great job of adhering to the original image. This other eye, probably a better test. Looking pretty spot on.
Move down to the lips again. It's done a great job of the hair, detail on the lips. Forget, this is a mid-journey image, now upscaled to over 6,000 pixels.
And if I were to creative upscale at first, you would get an image over 12,000 pixels wide. So that's pretty incredible. And even the little bits of sort of like grain in the image gives it a more authentic feel as well.
Well, let's compare the normal to the recovery. Thought I'd get nice, up close and personal with this one again, because this is the high fidelity upscale, which looks amazing. Introduce the recovery. And everything is just that bit sharper and more impressive. Check out, again, we've got the lips.
That texture has been introduced. It looks far more natural. The skin texture actually looks a little bit better, I think, on high fidelity, but not enough of an issue to sort of make you want to switch. But we move up to, say, the eyes, such as this eye here. It's a bit blurry, and this one's a bit sharp.
So recovery mode really sharpens things up and gives you a sharper looking image at a distance as well. So again, we have another high fidelity upscale, this time using face recovery. And this is a photo from Unsplash.
And as I come across, you can see it's done a pretty good job of kind of bringing that face into focus. Considering what little information it has, it looks pretty good. Again, a little bit fuzzy because we've used high fidelity.
and maybe some of the settings could be tweaked to get a better result but even the edge of the shirt you can see how much better it's improved but by switching to recovery I think things are definitely a bit sharper but still has a lot of trouble with this image in particular but the face the face recovery is great if you wanted to print this image the face recovery is great for getting it to a point where you could print it convincingly and it would look like the original person in the photo you can see how furry that fuzzy that face is even the t-shirt check out the detail on the shirt here we keep coming across it's done a great job of recovering that face considering and there's probably a few settings i could tweak to really bring that out but so far i think that's not too bad maybe there's a better one we can play with down the track so i decided to jump over into topaz and i turned off the face recovery mode and i've stuck with recovery so just the recovery model itself without face recovery and i think it has improved the face a decent amount i can bring the detail up and sort of highlight some of that area a bit more but it does a bit of a funny job with the hair so finding that middle ground you can do a pretty good job with with the recovery mode recovering images like this it's very difficult to see the details of his face but does a great job of interpreting them anyway next we have this food image here and i really want to test out the textures here now again these images are all under a thousand pixels wide this one's 640 by 800 so i've added high fidelity to it starting with this plate here if we come across check out the difference in the strawberries the blueberries even the little bits of sort of like oatmeal in here it's a great job of upscaling that food and keeping a good texture move on to the cup i've got a bit of a rough texture on the cup coffee on top It's nailed that cup as far as I can see. It looks like the real thing. Even here, even though this is out of focus, it's done a great job with that also. But moving on up to this and it's still a bit out of focus but it's done a great job with what we get.
Let's try recovery mode. Now this time I've decided to go straight from high fidelity to recovery since recovery does tend to sharpen things up and already you can see here the difference in detail and sharpness that it adds. adds more contrast and it definitely brings out the details a bit more in this particular bowl so the idea that you can actually introduce so much texture just by spending a little bit more time with the processing it's pretty incredible move on to the cup and the texture is added to the cup it's changed some of the texture in here which i think doesn't look quite as good but it's definitely done as good a job i think the saucer looks a bit better with the shine and then across this looks a bit neater and generally speaking these little bits of crusts here actually look like a piece of food of some sort so recovery mode definitely did a great job of this one but it's not so much better it's for this particular image but definitely made a difference this time i thought i'd try face we'd all recognize it's a low resolution screen cap of bruce lee from way of the dragon seeing c how fuzzy and pixelated it is i drag this across and the face recovery has done a great job again face recovery seems to be a little bit fuzzier than the other models i will admit that but obviously it has to work with some of the details of the face so maybe there's something that's not quite as advanced in that as the other models in regards to sharpness but it's done a great job of picking up the facial details and that still looks like bruce lee doesn't look like some ai generated sort of like different person with a similar expression It really does actually look like Bruce Lee.
So I've done something a little different this time. I've popped the same Bruce Lee image and gone to recovery mode to see what results we can get. But then I kept recovery mode turned on and added face recovery as well and tried to dial it to the best setting which is about I think about 60 and that result isn't too bad either. Put them all side by side though and really study them and recovery mode on its own I think is actually a bit better than recovery mode with face recovery. So if you're not using recovery mode I would recommend using the face recovery setting otherwise if you're going to stick with recovery mode don't worry about adding that face recovery feature i've got this old sepia photo here again facial facial recovery we drag this across and we've actually got a face there this is probably the best example where the face actually looks pretty sharp you can see just how good the detail is in this face and i'll bring this back across you see how fuzzy it is i move i go back to the other image and the detail added is pretty incredible so depending what photos you give it I would say that you probably need to play with the settings a little bit to tweak it but the face recovery is incredibly powerful It's just not quite as sharp as some of the other Sort of models so definitely have a play with it and see what you reckon I think this is a pretty powerful feature But again, I've quickly switched back to topaz gigapixel and I've put recovery mode on and believe it or not it hasn't recovered the face as well as high fidelity with face recovery turned on so i'm going to come down over here turn that on and we haven't got the best of both worlds yet again i can zoom out more yet is a pretty solid upscale so this is a photo of me with hoist gracie from i think it might be 10 10 over 10 years ago uh and i use face recovery on this as well and This looks just like me.
There's a couple of funny things there, but overall, the facial recovery is pretty good. Go over to hoists, and that facial recovery also looks pretty incredible. This is me. and does a great job of working out where those details need to go. Now our last image we are going to test out high fidelity again it does seem to be that and standard in my opinion seem to be the best for most images but not every image as we saw with low res before on that transformer screen cap but this image is already pretty high resolution it's 2560 by 3.328 pixels so it's already a high res image and if i zoom out there's a lot to this image and we can't check it all out because of the limitations of the viewer but this is the image in its entirety so you can see here this is already fairly detailed come across it does look a bit smoother but how does it handle those really really fine details on this particular image now check out we've got the nose and lips here and this image has a texture applied to it check out how smooth that is but high fidelity takes already reasonably high resolution images and makes them gigantic This image is 15,360 pixels by 19,968 pixels.
So you can see the detail on the eyes. And I'm going to actually open this up into a straight image viewer and check it out a bit more up close. This is our full image. This is zoomed in at one to one.
Because it is so big, it just does a great job. You can zoom right in and check every little detail. So the details here aren't perfect but if you were to zoom in on a really high quality photo it wouldn't be this sharp anyway.
Like the amount of detail here for if you're creating art really impressive. The strands of hair like I said this is a one-to-one image. It loses a bit of the detail here in the hair but if you zoom out a little bit it's not really noticeable.
Considering that you're going to be viewing the image probably no closer than this is pretty impressive and if you really just need it for print you just need to be really high res and cleaned up. this is a great way to do it so that just goes to show you the power of topaz gigapixel i've thrown a bunch of images at it to see what it can do and i think it's done a great job with all of them so i highly recommend checking it out there's a link in the description if you want to check out topaz gigapixel it's a powerful platform and i hope you have as much fun with it as i do otherwise that's the video for today guys thanks for watching again and sticking all the way through if you like it please consider giving the video a like otherwise see you again next time have a great day