With a little extra hustle, this will be a great image, but here’s my gripe: Their entire range is incredibly powerful, and the result from this tool was not dissimilar to that from Luminar Upscale AI – There are a lot of preserved detail and blanks filled in, but it does feel ‘crunchy’ once again. ON1 Resize AI claims to be the ‘industry standard,’ according to their website marketing. I used the automatic settings for the test, not adjusting any sharpening or noise sliders. Here’s the original photo: –Īnd here are the details for those who want to see it with their own eyes. I enlarged the image to six times its size for each test, resulting in a 3072 x 3072 pixels image. An image this small is a great subject for this test because we’ll easily see what’s going on in the upscaling and what the AI is doing. It’s tiny! This is about half the width of an Instagram photo. The image we are starting with is 512 x 512 pixels at 72 DPI.

I reached out to AI image expert Micah Burke who created this scene for the test using MidJourney, an AI text-to-image generator using Discord as an interface.

Naturally, I decided to use an AI-generated image to test and compare AI photo upscaling. Another use for upscaling that is coming to the forefront in our industry is AI art.

Topaz upscale