{"id":2466,"date":"2020-12-28T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2020-12-28T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:28:33","slug":"i-continue-my-work-with-topaz-gigapixel-ai-still-45-off-through-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/i-continue-my-work-with-topaz-gigapixel-ai-still-45-off-through-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"I continue my work with Topaz Gigapixel AI (still 45% off through 1\/1!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my last blog post<\/a><\/strong> I described how I was using Topaz Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> and Studio 2<\/a><\/strong> with the AI Clear filter to salvage a bunch of old images for use as stock imagery. During this “dead week” between Christmas and New Year’s (or shall we call it a “dead YEAR”-!), I continue to explore my archives, pulling out all sorts of images and preparing them for posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is one example I did today, one of my great-grandmother’s old postcards from almost 115 years ago. These were her “social media” as she kept in touch with her teenaged friends when they took vacations and holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I borrowed these cards from a relative several years ago and had scanned them at 300ppi; looking back I should have gone for 600ppi or higher, but still the results were quite good. This is the uncropped image I worked with (originally 1665 x 2122px before cropping down to just the photo), reduced here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a 100% cropped view showing the original scan quality. Like I said, it should have been bigger…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After cropping and otherwise prepping this postcard (and a collection of others like it) in Photoshop (spotting and tonal correction), I batch-processed them along with some random others in Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong>, enlarging them all 4X:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I used Photoshop 2021’s new Neural>Colorize filter to add some quick color to the Easton Library image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the 4X-enlarged and colorized result (details at 100%, please open in new window to view full-size<\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now you see why I love Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> so much! Look how it made this small image usable at even huge sizes! Here are a couple of examples from my Fine Art America<\/a><\/strong> page for this particular image, where the enlarged photo easily fits on blankets and other large items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you haven’t tried it already, you really need to test Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> on your own quality-challenged images! Photos you may have rejected years ago are now perfectly viable for all sorts of purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my last blog post I described how I was using Topaz Gigapixel AI and Studio 2 with the AI Clear filter to salvage a bunch of old images for use as stock imagery. During this “dead week” between Christmas and New Year’s (or shall we call it a “dead YEAR”-!), I continue to explore Read more about I continue my work with Topaz Gigapixel AI (still 45% off through 1\/1!)<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,25,31,7,1],"tags":[281,781,223,168,783,187,776,385,185,782,784,153,139],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discounts","category-general","category-photography","category-post-processing","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-carnegie","tag-coupon","tag-discount","tag-easton","tag-enlarge","tag-fine-art-america","tag-gigapixel","tag-interpolate","tag-library","tag-pa","tag-topaz","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}