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To get the best results from PS Super Resolution you need to directly process the RAW file (as opposed to the TIFF processed in this video), as Super Resolution’s AI models include sensor characteristics for up-scaling during demosaicing.

You are missing the benefits of Super Resolution in this comparison. It isn’t apples to apples. The ACR version, “Super Resolution” is able to do this at the raw file root and output to a full raw DNG file. It maintains any previous LR or ACR adjustments and also allows them to be changed after using Super Resolution. So no matter what noise reduction, sharpening or even transformation/cropping, etc that you do prior to Super Resolution, it is fully non-destructive and editable after the fact and not baked in if you are working from a raw file. I love the results I am getting from using Super Resolution at the raw level.

Definitely the best comparison done so far - Ensuring the same settings are used and comparing the final jpg images generated.

Thanks for that walk-through of the two methods. You've made up my mind. I've been thinking of getting Gigapixel for some time because I use a crop sensor camera for wildlife and landscapes. Getting a little extra sharpness and good noise reduction is something I think I'll appreciate. Thanks again. You're always so helpful.

Thank you, for your time and effort making us better in our hobby. Alf

I was just thinking to myself yesterday - I'd like to see a Gigapixel AI vs PS SuperRes - and here it is! I have both, and your comparison here confirms I did not waste money on Topaz's offering: certainly more options as you pointed out, and I gotta say, the Architecture mode gives me the sharpest enlargements every time!! Thank you Anthony Morganti!

This was an excellent comparison Anthony. I am enjoying all of your tutorials and love my R6 with both the 600mm f11 and 100-400 USM II for birding.

Very helpful comparison. Thank you!

Thanks Anthony for another very good, instructional video. The noise reduction of the background seemed much better in the Gigapixel version. I am wondering if going back into LR or PS with the super enhanced version and applying additional sharpening would help it get closer to the Gigapixel result?

Another excellent video! Great demo of the 2 approaches. I think these high quality up-sizing applications are game changers to a considerable degree. It makes me think my beloved Nikon Df has plenty of useful life remaining.

Great movie like always Commander! I knew someone like you would push out this comparison soon.

I had purchased Gigapixel AI but was unsure of it's capability. This video provided the explanation I needed. Many thanks..

So, for everything Adobe Photoshop. For everything else, Topaz Gigapixel. Thanks!

It would be interesting to see such a comparison made on a sharp image to start with.

Great comparison! Looks like both methods did a good job. That said, Topaz had its Black Friday sales and I went with Gigapixel and AI Sharpen bundle.

I did a similar comparison but added DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI for both of them. For my test, Super Resolution turned out slightly sharper. I was on MegaPixel's trial version and decided not to pay for it.

Hello, how do you get an Tiff image to be processed in CameraRaw to enable the expansion. I note one is to use Bridge, how do you do this directly from LR? Regards ChrisB, love your work, you have taught me a lot.

Great stuff. Always "love" hidden commands.. If one already has Denoise or Sharpen, I don't think Gigapixel is needed. I feel, PS Enhance + Denoise gets you to the same as Gigapiel alone. How do you think ENHANCE compares to resize in PS?

Love your videos. I am confused, however. Shouldn’t you have chosen 4x in Gigapixel for an apples to apples comparison? Super Resolution doubles length and width, therefore creates increases the file 4x.

Okay here's my situation. As soon as I open the image in Photoshop and I right click all it does is want me to resize the image to fit the screen. Then if I click on anything else when I right click it just ask me if I want to change settings in that brush setting or whatever else. Can you please elaborate?

I was expecting this video, I think Gigapixel is way better hands down, I thought you were going to pixel peeping which would have demonstrate clearly the winner according to me. Thank you for your videos

I noticed you said that when you open the raw file from LR Classic to PS CC 2021 it opens up in the raw file program, when I open up a DNG file from LR Classic in PS CC 2021 it does not open up in the raw file program it opens up straight into PS ????? Using a windows 10

Hi Anthony, in a very recent video by Chelsea and Tony Northrop they concluded that the super enhance in Photoshop isn't any better than just sharpening and using noise reduction except for Fuji sensors. I think they were wondering if any AI ws used and concluded there wasn't. Yours is a more instructive video and thanks

What’s the difference between the photoshop enhance and the one found in Lightroom ? Have you compared them ?

great video though in my job i have to restore old and vintage images in really poor conditions and none of my clients know anything about tiff, png, raw, super cameras, most of the pictures were taken with their phones, or were passed on from their grandparents so it you would make a comparisons with real pictures and not professionally taken pictures , thank you, I´ve been restoring old pictures for the past 5 years.

Good day/ Been reviewing a lot of videos lately trying to figure something out. I'm somewhat new to Photoshop and have this issue. I make digital artwork in pixel size but need to enlarge it to megapixel size. I try to enlarge it but I loose some of the area around the image (background to small and not enlarging like the image itself. Need help with this one that.

I took the photos from the screen and comparing side by side the detail of nose at zoom 400%, seems that Gigapixel makes better job. Sharpens the object and smoothing the background. Thanks for the video!

If it annoys you how Topaz software keeps "rendering" everytime you move the preview or everytime you make an adjustment, you can easily disable "Auto Update" anytime in the Preferences. Then you can manually "update" the preview only after making a series of adjustments. The "rendering" or "updating" is actually meant to be a real-time display of the effect of a slider adjustment, but it takes so many seconds to compute and display that it feels like a "render."

What about the original program Genuine Fractals now On1 Resize

When I loader dng or nef from Lightroom it does not got photoshop raw acr. what am I doing wrong?

Great comparison! Honestly, can't tell the difference between the two results. SR in Camera raw is generally sufficient enough for me, but in one case, I needed more resolution which I think Gigapixel would have helped. Thanks for this informative video.

From what I can see at "youtube quality" the original image, besides being low resolution, also seems to be affected by some camera shake, so maybe not the best example...?

Hello Anthony. Thank you for the tutorial and comparison of Gigapixel to Photoshop's Super Resolution. I compared Gigapixel to Alienskin BlowUp3 and was astounded by the difference in detail that Gigapixel was able to extract from TIFs. Remarkable! But also remarkable is how SLOW Gigapixel is in its process. Granted, while my images are about 3000x2000 and I DO have an “older” MAC with 16GB of RAM, it takes about 28 minutes to do a 2x Gigapixel render. Topaz states: “Topaz Gigapxiel AI, et al, ARE currently compatible with and supported on Big Sur and Monterey. These apps are NOT yet M1 native, but will automatically run through your Rosetta 2 emulator if you have are using an M1 device. 

Jpeg to Raw AI currently does not function on MacOS Big Sur or Monterey.”

Is it possible to compare these results to Pixelmator's Super Resolution?

How do I open Camera Raw as a stand alone application as you do in this video? Thanks in advance for any help on this issue.

Thanks so much, Anthony. However, when I access Camera Raw there's no "choice" for Super Resolution." It just gives me "Enhance." ?????? A bit of an aside question... is the Gigapixel AI better than Topaz DeNoise? Does DeNoise mess with pixels?

Thank you very much. I would be curious to see the 4x or 10x in Gigapixel AI; is it 4 or 10 times 'better' or just like 2x with merely the ability to pixel peep at larger magnifications? I doubt that it will 'create' resolution out of thin air (in the sense that if something is not captured in the original resolution obviously no s/w can ...) - so in my thinking this is all just increasing the number of pixels for larger print/display (and that means amplifying any flaws too). Am I missing something?

I tried Gigapixel AI against PS Super Resolution using a cropped bird photo from a few years ago and found a significant difference also; however I thought to make a fair comparison I should apply some sharpening to the PS output as I was pretty sure Gigapixel was also applying sharpening. So I ran the PS SP image through Sharpen AI and found the result was better than Gigapixel. Then to make the comparison as fair as possible, I took the original cropped image and ran it through Sharpen AI and then Gigapixel AI and compared that to the PS SP + Sharpen AI. The PS SP + Sharpen AI was still a little better but very close. I was using the latest version (as of Apr 29th) of both AI products.

I guess you know you can set Photoshop to open JPGs and TIFs in ACR automaticly in Camera Raw settings?

Architecture is the last one you’d want to use here!!

how i upload Photo from Lightroom to Camera raw to apply the SUPER RESOLUTION ??

ACRs Super Resolution reduces noise as well

You could have added Pixelmator with its ML Super Resolution too!

You could sharpen the photoshop image manually and it would come closer to the gigapixel ai image which does it automatically.

What about DVDfab enhancer?

I have Topaz Labs DeNoise AI but not Gigapixel AI. For me, a true apples to apples comparison would involve applying DeNoise AI after Super Resolution, and then comparing to Gigapixel AI.

It's an interesting video, but why should you make it "apples to apples"? PS super resolution's ability to output a true raw file is a huge advantage over Gigapixel AI!

Do I look like I know what a JPG is?

While you stressed that you wanted this to be an apples to apples comparison, using the Architecture setting in GP made this an apples to oranges one. As you said, you could have sharpened the image in Lightroom or Camera Raw, but didn't. The Architecture setting in GP obviously adds sharpening (to a wildlife image) that made the final image sharper, although I would argue it added unnecessary artifacts of the blurred part of the image (see the rim around the eyes and the doubling of some feather strands). Also, you could have easily added noise reduction in either LR or Camera Raw, which would have easily been comparable to the GP result.

I would rather used the Gigapixel and the Superresolution first , then cropped the images and made a comparison.

You succeeded in a fair apples to apples comparison with an excellent explanation of the software. Leaving me curious as to how On1 Resize would do with the same image. I project that all three do a good job, with Topaz Gigapixel AI slightly better due to its flexibility for different image types.

Thank you so much.

It seems like having Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Gigapixel would be redundant.

Neither seems to have much effect on full frame, high mp sensor images (eg Sony a73 60mp).

I NEVER print from jpg. All my prints are from 16 bit .Tif files.

The superresolution is just a starting point, theres so many other things we can continue to do to tweek the photo in Ps.. Ps still wins for me

but gigapretzel takes 10.6x longer to process

The biggest difference is I can buy Gigapixel whereas I will be paying rent on Photoshop every month, month after month, year after year. Fine for working pros who are shooting all the time and making their living. But for hobbiests, who maybe shoot a lot a few times a year, and then the camera sits in the closet for months, that's ridiculous.

Dude I'm sorry, but you have to talk less and get to the point more quickly 😅 this was 13 Minutes undirected "rambling". Tge comparison itself is 30 seconds

Photography as a skill is over! When you can take a shot and change everything about it using AI , it is over.

Stopped watching when you said, “print from a JPEG”. Always print from a TIFF.

What comparing a $100 stand alone app with something built into Photoshop? Boy, desperate for content.

You talk too much. We are in 2021. Fast content, please. This video could be reduced to 3 minutes.