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06:00 – Topaz Labs demo
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Skip to 06:00 for the Topaz Labs demo. #Midjourney is great for creating images, but they’re not big enough to print, by using a second machine learning system, Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI we can smartly scale them up, while the AI fills in the gaps.
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Super T-shirt! And I've been enjoying this little method for a few months since I got into DDv5.2, The prints look great.
One thing I have been experimenting with lately, and at work, is using Topaz to create 3D animations at a slower framerate. I wonder how that could apply to a DD or DALLE-2 animation…
Really like your vlogs! I'm also a big fan of Topaz
very helpful ! thank you !
Great video! Super informative and well made.
i've been playing around with Midjourney after watching your other video ! As an artist/ designer its fascinating and inspiring !
Also really digging your approach and work !
Thank you for the knowledge on all these different areas. Topaz will become a business expense very shortly.
Hey Dan,
first of all: Thank you so much for this awesome video, I really use Topaz a lot on so many things and it really blows my mind what details it can find in some lower resolution material!
A totally offtopic question: What printer do you use for your digital prints 😀 ? I really liked the blacks and the detail on your prints!
What a great and educative video!
For a non-native English speaker (like me) you are so easy to understand.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Deciding to WATCH your video was MORE a VISION THING 😁
Your shirt caught me
Topaz and other AI Upscalers are doing a LOT of magic, but for those who are "stuck" with Photoshop or Affinity I got also a little workaround:
1. Set a new Project with the desired format, insert the image and scale it up according to the document borders
2. Convert the image to a "Smart Object", apply a "Camera Raw Filter" and set the "Structure" Parameter to something between 30% – 60%
3. Duplicate the Processed Layer and set the upper Layer to "Overlay", apply a "High Pass Filter" and set it to something between 3 and 6
A little Reminder: This will NOT replace any kind of AI Upscale Magic, and it will work better for BW and Monochromatic images. Sometimes it will be enough, many times it needs further tweaking. Another Option is to do a final retouch by adding the 2 Layers to another Smart Object and repeating steps 2 and 3, sometimes adding an "Unsharp Mask" will also reveal more detail.
Whoa, I just found out about Gigapixel earlier this week and was instantly sold after seeing it upscale a piece of digital artwork I had bought. I’ve used it on a few midjourney outputs already and also highly recommend it for anyone that deals with DPI.
Hey Dan, just came across your videos – amazing work mate; you are really engaging and very good at explaining and showcasing 🙂 Thanks for doing this, much appreciated! I wanted to ask, do you have some experience or tips on using MJ/other AI tools to generate art and printed it on wearables (t-shirts, tote-bags), etc.? Any advice or references would be superb!
300dpi over a 1m is great!
I'm so intrigued by how the art industry will gradually shift towards becoming better at utilizing the AIs the create something intended than actually drawing oneself. Many complain about losing jobs, but I think it'll rather be a new evolution of how artists work in the future. Essentially an explosion of expressions and efficiency.
This video is amazing. You go right to the point and you explain everything very well and thoroughly. The quality of your content all around is great. This deserves more views!
This is the exact video I needed. Thanks!!!!
Sisters of Mercy!!!
Amazing work!! Lot of thinking, analysing, hats off to you 👍
why not Real-ESRGAN?
Hi, where do you recommend to print if we don't have a printer at home for test prints?
😁 Smiled when you bigged up printing and hanging your work when you have absolutely nothing on your walls…… Great video, keep up the good work.
Great! Exactly what I was looking for 😃
Very good video Dan !!
This is really useful! Thank you for sharing this!
I find the low-resolution Topaz model better for upscaling Midjourney, although I'm still using version 5.8 because it works better for what I do. The Art & CG model tends to keep more variation in almost flat areas but it makes edges wider (eg. blue skies keep more detail in the blue, but the edge of a tree and the leaves lose fine detail). Obviously different models work better for different images… 4x scaling seems to be the sweet spot for me, which gives 8.2k x 4.6k ~= 38MP images
good evening from Costa Rica! is there a chance to use a big 72dpi image generated with MJ for silkscreening? could it be possible to prepare the image using the halftone technique? the image I have has this measurements in pixels, w: 1664 x h: 2432 and I really want it to use it for silkscreening… any ideas? thanks in advanced! 🤔
Completely agree with what you said about printing your images. When I do a big print for a project or photograph, it lets me look at it as if it wasn't my own in a way. I find it very useful.
This video was so very well explained , showcasing the details and difference between the different software's was excellent. thank you!
I have this software and use it every day. But judging from some of the comments I am not sure that people know that "pixels" and "DPI" are 2 different things?
I tried the Gigapixel demo (which leaves a watermark all over everything so you aren't fully able to evaluate it). For my use though, which is mainly preparing old historical photos for publication, I would have to say no, that it doesn't seem very good. It takes too many freedoms and simply leaves what it doesn't understand alone so that some parts of the image no longer blends naturally with the rest. The result had a phony look. But for a Midjourney image which is fantasy to begin with I'm sure it would work a lot better, yes.
As for enlarging with Photoshop, there are settings apart from automatic that might take you further. Also there is Lightrooms "Super resolution" enhance which is still not great but better for my kind of use where you have a real photo and don't want it ending up looking fake.
Nice video, your enthusiasm is infectious!
Hello ! Great video ! Which printer do you use ?
You’re so good at explaining things Dan, thanks a lot
And this week, Topaz delivers to us, Topaz Photo AI
Who is buying AI prints?
Now I can see why Mid-Journey's pricing models are rather steep for us – running a server farm when energy prices are climbing is expensive.
I'm new to your videos, but I just want to let you know that I really enjoy the few I've watched, so far. I can't wait to go through and watch the others! You give great information in an easy to comprehend way. Thank you so much for making the videos. 😁
Only for that t-shirt you have very big plus and like from me. Anyway very interesting content, good info.
Great content. I have a doubt. I believe that the images created with midjourney are 72 dpi. After I upscale the image with gigapixel I will get 300 dpi by default?
Thanks.
How do you actually do the printing? A specialized printer? Which models would you suggest??
Easy to digest content! great video! thank you
Great video! Thank you so much!! Really appreciated this!
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the deal breaker for me is that both programs are subcription based. I have a midjourney sub right now, probably wouldn't take on another one until I get rid of this one, unless I was working for a bigger company (in which case, at least with MJ, I'd be stuck paying a bigger fee anyway). It's awesome to see these tools but I don't see them actually changing anything in the culture (besides reducing the payout for artists) until competitive open source options appear. Thanks for sharing this info!
What a great video!!!
Excellent video
hhhahahah u did not show how topaz works from start loading image soft where what soft whear looks like front pannel etc bad vid
Where to find midjourney on internet??
Thanks so much! I was getting tired of finding AI upscalers with subscriptions attached. Topaz was on sale so I grabbed
it straight away to get some work done for Redbubble!
Can the Gigapixel do the job alone? or running the image after gigapixel to topaz sharpen ai would do better?