Got to say, in my testing it’s been super impressive. Street images - things like tiny text on shop displays genuinely come up like a higher resolution original. Really great on clean lower res images - tried it on some 8Mpix Canon 20D images from years back and it’s great.
It seems to me that the ultimate point of this tool is to facilitate making larger prints and/or tighter crops, thus improving PS's ability to upscale an image without sacrificing (much of) the detail. Therefore it seems that the test should have been to take the original portrait, upscale it 2x in each dimension, and then try to edit that upscaled image to match the output of the "Super Resolution" tool.
For me It's working great I've been a week on it and it's amazing. Photos of the EOS R look like it was taken with a 5DSR or a similar super-resolution camera, it's cool.
I used a raw file of a landscape photo from my D850 and enhanced it, then I viewed at a ridiculously large print size of 60x90 inches to compare with the original raw file at the same print size. I noted huge improvement in the details after using Super Resolution, it was also noticeable at a more reasonable print size of 30x45 inches. I'm convinced that Super Resolution will be very useful for printing large landscape photos shot with my Nikon equipment.
I use Capture One largely because it does so well with the raw files from my Fuji X-T2. I would be interested in a comparison between using Capture One and Photoshop's enhance details feature on Fujifilm X-trans files.
I understand that adding more resolution to a sensor typically increases the resolution of scaled down images too, but maybe not if they want it faithful to the original image. Some might consider it a feature if it doesn't change the image if viewed at lower resolution. I'd like to see how this compares to previous methods at higher zooms. Could you compare to other algorithms like bicubic interpolation?
Tony, there is a dedicated software for upscaling images and ''enhance'' them manually (as for example : adding sharpening only where you want it etc..) it's called On1 Resize. Could you add it to your test pls?
It makes much more sense to enhance images from 20MP cameras (e.g. R6) instead of already HiRes images from cameras like the Sony. My experiance with R6 images and ACR enhance resolution is EXCELLENT!
I have my D850 and take a 25mp image of a tree covered in frost, I adjust it in photoshop to bring out sky colours, looks lovely and sharp. But even when exported to Tiff file the image has lost some of it’s sharpness, as some branches look unsharpened. Hard to store raw files and show from storage drive as not all work with raw only tiff, jpg,png
Heya Tony, interesting video. Are you familiar with the mobile app called Remini? It's fascinating to use and although it certainly has its limits, if used correctly it has some pretty impressive results. I'd love to hear your views on it
I think there's some benefits here that are missed. Having this kind of upscaling means that I can go out and purchase a used camera on a much smaller budget that may only shoot 16mp, but I can now utilize that file to create larger prints. This kind of tech (not just the adobe product), should make all of us pretty excited about being able to have older systems remain relevant and competitive.
As a test, take a photo from any camera, open it and process as usual, then the same picture process it the same but add the enhance part, now print the parts you want to check in photographic paper and then compare. Screens usually show a lot of artifacts, but printing somewhat don't show that much and at the end for an "enhanced" picture you may want to blow up a file to make a bigger print.
