Which A.I Upscaler is the Best for You?

There are 2 New Upscalers on the Market that directly compete with what Midjourney is trying to do. Should you spend the fast-hours and 4x Upscale through Midjourney? Or is the free option Upscayl a better solution for you? And just how good is Topaz Photo AI? (Hint: really really good)

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:44 MJ Upscaler
01:27 Upscayl Introduction
03:00 Topaz Photo AI Introduction
04:25 Coloring Page Comparison
06:03 Fur Comparison
07:36 BONUS Blur Comparison

[ai.explorer_de]

i am glad to see Upscayl in your Video. :) The really best thing about it is the batch upload. So you can use Adobe to export a video into frames and the upscayl the whole folder. And completely for free you have a upscaled video like from the super expensive Topaz video Upscale. :)))

[Paulogia]

I'd love a video on the different scalers in Upscayle

[MarieO]

Ready great to the point comparison video. Thank you!

[dialac]

I’ve used other topaz tools and they are excellent. Thanks for your continued videos. I wish you gave us more prompts from your community voting midjourney photo of the day posts

[gumikebbap]

i like ur style, straight to the point ^^

[morpheus]

Thanks for the comparison video, Nolan.

No question. Topaz rocks. While it's great that MJ have added their upscalers, it creates file management issues.

1.) It takes a lot longer to download the upscaled versions from their server, which I've found to be slow and unstable with batch downloads, even with their standard low res images.

2.) MJ haven't included an at-a-glance way of differentiating between the 3 different file outputs. I suggest different coloured borders or make the thumbnail sizes reflect their file size.

[neilslater]

Lots of people (like me) don't have time to look at all the AI image options out there in detail, so thanks for making this comparison/review video

[TomHermans]

thanks for this video. opened my eyes for a closer look ;)

[AliAli-qhiv]

Thanks for the effort you did for us 👍👍

[carlospoupa]

Thanks for the video. Please, do one about Topaz

[AG_before]

Thank you for this! 👍 Unless I were making money from my images, I wouldn't spend money on an upscaler like Topaz, despite its impressive capabilities. Upscayle has worked just fine for me 95% of the time. MJ - meh.
edit 1: One thing almost all of them do is remove noise/grain from images as a default 'cleanup and upscale' setting. So in case you've generated images with a little grit and noise on purpose, then Topaz takes the lead because I _believe_ it gives us control over how much it'll clean up along with the upscaling.
edit 2: The photo 'Remacri' setting in Upscayle _retains_ the noise and upscales it! Awesome!

[doordashchic]

im digging illustrator more than all of those. i turn the images n2 svg but i work with coloring images

[adamgdev]

Please make a video of Upscayl. I'm very curious. Great video per usual! Topaz is super legit

[PeterTrapasso]

Please do a deep dive into Topaz AI. Thanks!

[bzfcqcf]

Hi @FutureTechPilot :) I have a mother of all questions regarding these examples. Have you applied Topaz upscaler on 1K base MJ photo in the video or you applied it on MJx4 photo as a base. I presume that you probably used 1K base photo for a fair comparison, but wanted to double check. All the best.

[raky]

I found the MJ 2x upscaler was great, but the 4x was very flawed.

[discovery_a]

cool! there is a huge problem with a topaz Face detection mask, try it on bearded man like Santa, half of beard is blurry because of portrait mask, and other half is sharp... we need to correct it by hands, why there is no detection by skin or something else... and we can't apply different types of correction to little groups of images in big batch (why?). so i ask you to make video about Topaz AI... it worth your time, i think we all say you big thanks for it.

[contrarian]

Is Topaz Photo AI (upscaling) the same as Topaz Gigapixel I'm confused.

[WonderfulWorldOfStuff]

I use topaz gigapixelai, I was told by many that the photoai is pretty much the same thing but with different names for the options & sliding scales. I do know topaz have released a photoai 2 … is this the version you used? Have you used gigapixel? Did I invest in the right one? I’ll run the trial but without saving & being able to analyse properly might be a tricky test?

[somegeezer]

I find it odd that midjourney upscales rather than just recreating the image at higher resolution with more detail. Is it a limitation with the technology?