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Smart Upscaler — Use ML to improve and enlarge images for free
An easy to use image enlarger that uses AI to keep images looking clean.
☞ Drag & drop simplicity
↕️ Enlarge images by 2x or 4x
🤖 All enhancement is handled by AI
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@visualpharm Hi Ivan,
First of all, congratulations to the team for this awesome product launch.
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Really cool application. I tried it out, and I can easily say that it works well, but not too long ago, I found a better alternative. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for an image enhancer, but all I could find was some rubbish applications. I tried to use them, but all of my pictures turned out blurry and of low quality. After some, I was randomly browsing through the internet, and I ran into a really interesting website https://depositphotos.com/upscal... that had a photo upscaler online. I decided to give it a shot, and I was shocked by how well it worked. If anyone is looking for a similar application, then I would love to recommend it since it is the best you can find.
The validation fails if file has uppercase extension e.g. .JPG. It doesn't show feedback, but the console displays "no image".
@mightyalex I tried and it still works fine. There should be something else — a specific browser, extension, configuration, or file. I'm willing to track it down and fix it!
@visualpharm It was same on Safari and Chrome on mac if that matters. Minor bug however - my file just happened to be named file.JPG
@mightyalex here we go, for some reason I can reproduce it now. Thanks a ton, Mr. Mighty! Will fix.
Congrats on launch, really useful product! But picture can't be downloaded, I don't know why. Any idea?
@merrillhefdy it shouldn't be this way. Can you save it with right click -> Save as...?
This is nice! Seems to work really well with the sample images I tried (low quality client logos, photos, etc.)
@futhey I'm glad to hear that. I'd be glad if you share the results here — so we know what kind of images we should pay attention to.
For me as a content maker dealing with images all the time it's going to save the game with low-quality images. Thanks, guys, you do know all the pains of creative people!
What about the privacy policy regarding the images we upload? I've seen a couple of image enhancers on here that some hunters won't use because of that. Just curious.
Love your icons by the way.
@jessehojjensen we remove them soon after. We don't use them for training or anything else. Todo: formal privacy policy.
OMG! Life saver! I need such a tool at least twice a week while creating content for social media pages
Great concept, does this only work for certain types of images? Just tried to upscale an image that incuded some text and it didn't quite behave as I would have liked!
@andy_mantle exactly! It works great for
* Vectors. Upscaler removes the pixelation, preserving the sharpness.
* Good photos that are scaled down. Fun idea: buying the cheaper low res from stock photo websites, then upscaling them.
It works worse with text, with blurry photos, photos taken with a bad camera, printed and scanned photos, and high grain. It does what it does: improves the resolution, which is not the same as a great looking image. One of our next projects is making the bad images like this 
look like they're taken with an iPhone today. Long way here yet :)
* Good photos that are scaled down. Fun idea: buying the cheaper low res from stock photo websites, then upscaling them.
It works worse with text, with blurry photos, photos taken with a bad camera, printed and scanned photos, and high grain. It does what it does: improves the resolution, which is not the same as a great looking image. One of our next projects is making the bad images like this look like they're taken with an iPhone today. Long way here yet :)@visualpharm this sounds great! I can really see a benefit for many people with this. Are you considering the Integration side currently or is it just the standalone and bulk upload features that you are aiming for? I can see there is an option for Bulk image upload to use the API but I think this tool could be really powerful one integrated on an app or on a website for end users!
@andy_mantle an update one year later:
1. Bulk processing - done
2. Integration - we've integrated it into our https://icons8.com/lunacy so far
3. Coming is a plugin for Figma
Great work! I upscaled a low-res JPEG to 4x and compared it to all the upscale methods in Photoshop. Your solution is miles better! It even cleans up jpeg artifacts. 👏
Would love to see this as a Mac desktop app or photoshop plugin.
Hi, @visualpharm, I'm getting one 500 error after another. generated.photos might be down? -> `Internal Server Error`. BTW, I love that the endpoint is called `enhance` (😂)
@pollobrav0 yep, we didn't survive the load. Sorry about it! We've restarted it and we're working on a permanent solution this sprint.
Suggestion for future utilities: easily remove background from an image. Sort of like remove.bg but better and more fluid. I want to be able to fluidly move foreground image on any background and resize using my phone. This doesn’t really exist yet.
@dayaz36 that's awesome and we'll try it exactly as you said. We've already have a background removal (which we use on scale for an easier task, removing backgrounds at our Generated Photos and we make a lot of scene composing at our Photo Creator, so this would be a natural next step.
Why do you want to make it with your phone? What's the use case?
@visualpharm Sorry for the late reply. I feel like this would be a very popular consumer facing feature that needs to exist on it's own outside of professional photo editing software. Having it on the phone would be the most user friendly and ubiquitous. And touch would be a natural medium for this application. Before Instagram, filters were only done in photo editing software's. Now it's standard on all social media platforms. I feel like this should also be standard editing tool outside of PS.
Thanks for everything you guys are doing. I can't wait for this! Please make another PH post when it's ready. I'm sure that will be a very popular one! Cheers
Getting some uber-cool pictures and upscaling them myself was a hard job for me. Smart more upscale proved to be a guardian angel for me by saving my time and enlarging my Bulk to perfection. The best part is that it's free to use and really efficient with ML as its uber-cool spec. I had a real facilitated experience with it. I would recommend Vance AI Anime Upscaler (https://vanceai.com/anime-upscaler/) to everyone for Chic photos.
@johnbhiggins letsenhance: we work better with vectors and logos, they work better for most photos.
Photoshop and Topaz Labs — we didn't check it, but I'd like to see the comparisons!
@johnbhiggins test: 4x of this image https://photos.icons8.com/photos...
Anybody with Topaz and Photoshop at hand?
Anybody with Topaz and Photoshop at hand?
@johnbhiggins I've used Auto, but when I choose Beta, I see the same result:
@johnbhiggins I've played more and the best one I could get is for the explicit "Illustration" mode 
PS Testing is awesome. I'd love to see the tests from the community. Also, I'd love to see the suggestions: where do you miss it? What are some actual use cases? We can optimize both the AI model and UX for your goals.
PS Testing is awesome. I'd love to see the tests from the community. Also, I'd love to see the suggestions: where do you miss it? What are some actual use cases? We can optimize both the AI model and UX for your goals.
I work with custom clients designs / images with low resolution all time. I tried it today and it did a really great job! you guys don't stop impressing me all time. 😍
I'm definitely sharing this with my friends.
Thanks a lot! ❤
@abdulla_alsinani 🖤many many thanks! Glad you liked it; will try to keep impressing you in the future!
Hi friends, I recommend a free online tool to upscale your image, you can try VanceAI Image Upscaler. 100% for registed user, you can try it and you'll thank me hhhh. The only thing you need to do is to upload the image that you want to upscale, and AI will do everything for you. https://vanceai.com/image-enlarger
Its more unique and attractive at the same time and can saves a lot of people's time when actually wanting to depicted the right picture for a right suitable character wherever you wish to within a short period of time
Everyone who edits photos should definitely use this tool. I do photoshopping on mobile but I cant find an up that correctly upscale without losing quality or costing an arm and a leg. This does this very well. This is a good app! If you make this into an android app or even a web app for android/ios ill go above and beyond to promote it. Very grateful this is free also. Happy to donate to show my appreciation. Thank you Ivan and team
@dan_safkow Machine learning. Roughly, it's the same as artificial intelligence. Sorry for using tech jargon!
@sandochee still there? We stress tested it, but didn't expect it be #1 product of the day 😆
@visualpharm Nice job !! I love it, it's good for being listed on https://undesign.learn.uno (once again !!)
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