Davyc
Well-known member
I've always been fascinated with photographic restoration and have spent many, many enjoyable hours fixing what was considered to be the 'unfixable'. It was a skill that was honed over many hundreds of hours pouring over broken, cracked, crinkled, water damaged images and it was fun.
As I've grown older, I'm 70 BTW, my eyesight and dexterity are not what they used to be, so it's not so easy to achieve the results I was once able to do so.
Being someone who loves technology and embraces it with favour, I stumbled across some software that alleges to use AI in its modelling; I say alleges, because I can't say for sure if it actually does use AI in the way we have come to think of AI. Whether it does, or does not, the results are nothing short of remarkable and often outstanding. It's by a company called Topaz labs, and I use two pieces of software they have created. Gigapixel AI, which enlarges small images with phenomenal accuracy, and Photo AI, which is equally phenomenal.
Below is a before and after image of one of my favourite bands, Scorpions. The image is quite old, low quality and with some slight damage to various areas.
After running it through Photo AI and a small amount of manual intervention to clean up some areas that the software missed, you can see the results are nothing short of remarkable.
If I were to undertake this using conventional methods, it would take many, many hours over several sessions and probably still not get close to what is shown above. In fact, using Photo AI, and the small amount of manual intervention, this took less than a minute to achieve.
I'm going to be adding a lot of band images to my Rock Music site and will be running them through this software. Some are colour photos and many are B/W the results are equally amazing.
A quick question, which I will also add elsewhere on this site, is about the Media Gallery - is it something worth investing in to show off photos, or would it be better to just create image forums? I'll throw this out to whoever has the Media Gallery and what they think of it. In the meantime, if you are a photographer, it might be worthwhile having a look at Topaz Labs, link below.
www.topazlabs.com
As I've grown older, I'm 70 BTW, my eyesight and dexterity are not what they used to be, so it's not so easy to achieve the results I was once able to do so.
Being someone who loves technology and embraces it with favour, I stumbled across some software that alleges to use AI in its modelling; I say alleges, because I can't say for sure if it actually does use AI in the way we have come to think of AI. Whether it does, or does not, the results are nothing short of remarkable and often outstanding. It's by a company called Topaz labs, and I use two pieces of software they have created. Gigapixel AI, which enlarges small images with phenomenal accuracy, and Photo AI, which is equally phenomenal.
Below is a before and after image of one of my favourite bands, Scorpions. The image is quite old, low quality and with some slight damage to various areas.
After running it through Photo AI and a small amount of manual intervention to clean up some areas that the software missed, you can see the results are nothing short of remarkable.
If I were to undertake this using conventional methods, it would take many, many hours over several sessions and probably still not get close to what is shown above. In fact, using Photo AI, and the small amount of manual intervention, this took less than a minute to achieve.
I'm going to be adding a lot of band images to my Rock Music site and will be running them through this software. Some are colour photos and many are B/W the results are equally amazing.
A quick question, which I will also add elsewhere on this site, is about the Media Gallery - is it something worth investing in to show off photos, or would it be better to just create image forums? I'll throw this out to whoever has the Media Gallery and what they think of it. In the meantime, if you are a photographer, it might be worthwhile having a look at Topaz Labs, link below.
Topaz Labs | Professional-grade photo and video editing powered by AI.
Photo and video enhancement software powered by deep learning gets you the best image quality available for noise reduction, sharpening, upscaling, and more.
www.topazlabs.com
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