► IMPORTANT: If you are wondering why I did not compare the 5X of Super-Resolution with 5X in the online AI image upscaler, here's the reason: Please understand that applying Super Resolution 5 times is equivalent to 32 times the resolution as it doubles the resolution every time you apply it ( 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, 32X). So basically, we were comparing 32X of Photoshop with 4X of the online AI upscaler and still, the AI upscaler turned out to be better. I would have loved to go higher with the online upscaler but it didn't have a free option beyond 4X. This video's goal was to find out how far can "Super Resolution" go.
I have a photo of my son taken 10 days before he passed away, it is from a blurred mobile phone camera that i have been waiting years to have enhanced. Is anything available for this yet as PS still hasn't been able to do it for me?
@@diablolaggo870 basically if there was an AI engine behind it, it would detect that this area of pixels are hair or grass or trees or what ever and generate pixels for that context, fractal enlargers are just looking at patterns and filling in the spaces with similar colored pixels hence it lacks texture and detail and would compound any artifacts.
@@diablolaggo870 I wouldn't call it low effort.. i just think it wasn't designed to be used as it was here.. I haven't tried it personally as yet. but they obviously put in the check to limit it for a reason.
@@DirtyRGB You should be asking why people still don't know the difference between the most basic English words... the world is dumbing down so you should be expecting more of this, not less. The guy is only trying to help. People are so afraid of learning and being critiqued today, they should welcome it, it makes you a better version of yourself each day.
Another coffee break very well spent right here watching your video! I would have no idea about these new features, had it not been for your channel. Thank YOU! As always.
Most of the tutorials online mention Super Resolution works on any kind of photo. I shoot sports including Polo which of course is on a huge field so if a goal is scored at the far end the image has to be brutally cropped in order to get a saleable print for the player's spouse, etc. Like many photographers working with thousands of images, I work in Lightroom. I've been using LR's export function and specifying the size and resolution I want after all the editing and cropping is completed. It would make no sense at all to enlarge the image first to the size needed to then Crop in on the final saleable cropped proportion of the image. At first glance Super Resolution looked like a great idea! Accordingly I selected and cropped some test images, both raw and jpg, and selected "Edit in Photoshop ...with LR Adjustments". The files opened fine. Since the Super Resolution is invoked from Camera Raw, I selected an image and Filter >>Camera Raw Filter. The photo opens in Camera Raw but there are no options whatsoever for Enhancement or for Super Resolution. Puzzled, I contacted Adobe and learned the image has to be opened directly into Camera Raw from its folder in File Explorer, in order to access those features. So ...for someone shooting sports and using Lightroom the steps (confirmed by Adobe Tech Support) are: 1. Do the photoshoot 2. Totally ignore the fact you live in Lightroom 3. Review the photos in some other application (the tech suggested Bridge might work if you like living in the Department of Redundancy Department and have to use both Bridge and Lightroom) 4. Select all the photos you might want to Supersize and perhaps move them out of their native folder and into a separate one so they don't eventually get imported twice into Lightroom. 5. Open all those photos in Photoshop in batches as large as you think your system can handle. 6. Enhance them and Supersize them thereby creating a png file for each. 7. Make sure all those are saved ...they could go in the original folder since the originals are out of it now if you took that step to avoid redundancy. 8. THEN import your photoshoot into Lightroom 9. Do your normal Lightroom workflow 10. Crop these enormously large images that you enlarged in order to crop and should have been able to crop before enlarging. 11. Export etc. as normal. Seems like a make work project created by some folks eagerly climbing the corporate ladder in the Adobe Creative Clouded Judgement Department. What happened to Creative Cloud and the Lightroom - Photoshop integration? Is Adobe just giving up on that? Why create this much confusion and work for their customers?
It's about time someone took Adobe to task. They've been making a fortune and have offered less and less when it comes to their flagship software Photoshop.
@@BushMasterThermal I am no apple fanboy either, I just use whatever works best. The way FCPX handles rendering and it's export times puts it in a league of it's own.
@@Skrenja Ohh indeed. The new M1 chips are a huge game changer now too, i'll be getting a mac mini or the new ipad pro releasing over the air 4 depending on price and power. Would be the first apple product though
They seem to have removed the enhance feature. When I open an image in raw filter and right click it, there is no such option in the dropdown menu. Perhaps it's just been relocated though. Does anyone know where it is now?
My current LR/PS subscription ends in Nov. Was all set to ditch Adobe and move to Affinity Photo and Capture One. Then saw the news of Super Resolution. Appears it's not doing any extraordinary thing that some "influencers" are claiming. This guy kept it real. Thanks Unmesh.
I have a Remini app which does magic when it comes to FACES. it takes details from other photos and simply remakes your face. it actually cleans up the redness in my eyes which is nice and makes everything look 8k in comparison
So glad I watched this video. Trying to use the Super Res keeps locking up my computer, enhancing only my frustration level. Now I don't need to bother fixing the issue and just use a "random web enhancer." Thanks Unmesh!
Glad I found you and watched this. I have one of my fave images taken years ago with an iPhone 5s. Have you found that Adobe have improved the AI on their software since you did this video?
Speaking to Adobe they said the implementation is just the start and optimized for 2 times with minimal artifacts. Compression in Jpeg and doing it again will generate artifacts that will render larger artifacts in later generations. I also found my Topaz Gigapixel more universal for 2 4 and 8 times superresolution. However, simply build in and generation a RAW file it is very valuable for Photographers. It may also eliminate the need to upgrade from 20/24 to 47 GPixel in some cases, as the resulting Prints really are good. However, I have not yet compared 90cmx60cm high-end prints between 20 MP R6 upscaled with PS or GigaPixel vs 47 MP R5.
I think adobe just needs to be aware of how great your teaching is. Hope they do decide to put you on the payroll. I mention you every time there is a photoshop question in any of the groups I'm in on fb. Glad you are helping.
lol, this video taught me how to roast someone with buttery words which was in the last part of this video...... But anyway you are the best sensei when it comes to photoshop... I hope you keep creating more content for us..... tysm..
There's another fuction in photoshop called super zoom in the neural filters catergory that may workout better than this you just need to expand the canvas size so that the actual image doesn't get cropped
A good review and comparison. Adobe has expanded and acquire several companies in the past. Their new neural filters results are usually subpar to similar 3rd. Party software, but they’ll save money not buying more tech, using some ideas from competitors and continuing with this format until more of us users actually demand or star buying other software and stop using theirs. If a large company has already our subscription money, no matter how much we complain or bring ultimatums, they already have us captive. It is until we take action and use other software while stop using the current one that will call a more significant attention and possibly the change we are asking and looking for.
You probably already figured it out but just in case - make sure your Camera Raw is version 13.2 - Help and then Updates from Photoshop - will show the version you are currently on
The comparison at the end is completely useless. How is processing an image 5 seperate times through Photoshop to make it 32 times the original size, anywhere near comperable to processing an image once to make it 4 times the original size? Processing already processed images will of course deliver lower quality results. The only accurate judgement would be to compare the two 2x enhancements, and then run those through both services again if you wanted to test multiple uses.
It looks like Adobe's AI is trying to stay more in line with the actual information of the image, whereas that free software was interpreting "hair" or "eyes" and just content-aware-filling in those regions with detailed samples from images it had learned from.
The adobe one dosent work great with jpgs, but much better with native raw files,. Seems like their ai trained differently. But it would be great if adobe can also add a normal jpg ai enlarger that does more aggressive filling like the web one.
DISLIKE !! why adobe have to buy these technologies? If they have balls they can make their own.. Do you have problem with other technologies exept adobes??
I was recently asked to uprez an image of a train that was only 480x650 and I was able to run it through Depp Image AI twice and came out with a fantastic result. I am not associated with this product- but I've been doing digital imaging for 30 years and never seen anything like this.
You are 100% right, Adobe is lagging behind other software. The sky replacement feature in Luminar is a prime example, super resolution is just an embarrsement.
I love Gigapixel AI..... And I ended up owning every software Topaz has, but I have yet to find anything superior to it, and I'd be happy to hear some new options, as I do need to do upscaling constantly, thank god I have a powerful CPU or it would take quite a long time to upscale
LMAO "maybe I am and you just don't want to pay me" too funny :) Good video. I was just looking at the enhance. It's not quite to the level of movies magically enhancing license plates and faces on grainy video footage yet, is it?
The thing is that the Photoshop upscaler has to do a good job on any kind of image (not just faces). Maybe the free online upscalers were trained just on human faces and that's why they do such a good job. But they may distort and mess up other kinds of images...
Gotta say i would’ve expected more from Adobe!Great review and nice to see that you compared it to some random enhancer and that still turned out to be the better one!
If you became Adobe's Adviser, you wouldn't be able to speak your mind and critique Adobe, like you are here. We need people like you on the outside, not with Adobe.
I'm really pleased with the results that I'm getting from Super Resolution during a one time run on my raw files. It's going to be very useful for large prints. I expect Adobe to refine this tool in a few areas. I expect the first one to be user selectable output size.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge for free with other people. I am 58 years old unemployed and I am trying to improve and update my knowledge and try to return to the job market. God bless you and your family.
I feel the same way about Adobe and their "auto align". It's pretty terrible and it just doesn't seem to be improving. Products like Microsoft ICE can align images of wildly different sizes and angles and get things right. Adobe can't even get multiple shots that were hand held to properly align even when they are very close. I feel adobe is getting lazy or so entrenched that they don't notice when some of their features are seriously lagging.
I don’t agree here. Adobe Photoshop super resolution feature is much more reliable than the AI powered technologies from competition, e.g. Topaz Gigapixel AI. As you also showed these solutions are prone for artifacts with strange “invented” geometries, wrong colors etc. In contrast to Adobe’s solution they have limited use for scenarios where highest quality is mandatory, e.g. large fineart prints of landscapes. For the next time give it also a try with RAW files, because here the advantages are much more obvious. Other recommendation: You can use superresolution als for RAW image sharpening: Just bring the resolution back to the original size afterwards. Quite impressive...
I thought the online version took a while to come up with the solution. This was probably because they were contacting the model and setting up the shoot all over again but capturing and processing in higher resolution. - You cant fool me!!
It's all about architecture of model and how much data you feed to train the model. For super resolution we need to train the model with low and high resolution of the same image. By training the Model with these two images AI model figure out what is missing in low resolution. If the model trained with millions of such pairs it will give good result.
LOL!!! This is a great demo of what can be done with other technology. Adobe is great for many things, but not all. THIS QUICK CLIP IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE!
Adobe seriously needs a new CEO. They don't have yuv scopes in photoshop like in premiere, been a problem for over ten years. Yet, they focus on releasing a resolution software that can't even compete lol. Always new junk, never fix anything.
It was wrong to compare super resolution 5x with 1x of online version. Each time you do this you introduce errors, therefore you were enlarging error image and introducing more errors each time. Only valid comparison is 1x adobe superresolution which quadruples resolution vs online version ,once quadrupled resolution
So far, Piximperfect is the best and reliable source of knowledge when it comes to photoshop, you are a genius and master of photoshop sir! I hope your channel and your name become more successful! More power sir!! Thankyou for all the knowledge and tutorials! More more more!!!
Excellent comparison. In your view which online service to use/ best according to you for AI image enhancer (not enlarger). I have few old pics restoration work. Thanks in advance.
I don't know first thing about this feature and with the help of your video just found out about it but I must say, doesn't seem like making low res photos high res is the purpose at all. "super resolution" got no Ai in the name, it doesn't have any kind of intelligence to COME UP with details. Once it does there definitely gonna be a feature with the name Ai in it. Btw looks like the super resolution give same results as" preserve details 2.0"
I would say they should add you to their team as an advisor, but then there would be things you couldn't talk about, they'd control your channel, etc. Maybe it's a blessing that they haven't... 🤔 But at minimum, someone from your team can put in enhancement requests. A lot of changes happen in software based on 1. Does it crash anything or remove functionality 2. A few big customers that bring in lots of money for them complaining or 3. Loads of end users complaining. Disclaimer: I don't work for Adobe, it's just my two cents as a software support specialist 😁.
