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In pictures with strong horizontal blur the problem with unintentional sharpening was actually not as bad as I was afraid it will be. And the few small problematic areas (like for instance the barely visible eyebrows completely disappearing) can still be carefully masked out and replaced with lanczo...

Just to show that "lanczos" works just fine when the picture is already blurry and that no additional processing is required in that case: ORIGINAL: rin_wisp_blurred.jpg LANCZOS UPSCALED BY 4: rin_wisp_blurred - 4x lanczos.png AI (note the eyes that were unintentionally sharpened): rin_wis...

Oh wow, very neat. I was wondering how it would handle BGs since they are somewhat blurry in some areas. If using this tool on BGs didn't turn out so well, the best thing to do would've been to upscale the raw photos, and then photoshop them again. (all BGs were made from irl images, in case you di...

My gut feeling just told me that my list of examples would be incomplete if I didn't include at least one up-scaled screenshot from the actual game to show off how the end result could look like, so here it is. The textbox was disabled on purpose, since the game engine would render it by itself. KS-...

Example for an up-scaled background from KS:

The game also contains some backgrounds that are closer to photo-realism than to anime. (Also it seems like someone tried to make some of them look a bit like drawn paintings.) But there are different kinds of up-scaling tools based on neural networks for different purposes. And if THIS ONE doesn't ...

I interpret it more as "why is this needed when the game is made blurry on purpose?" Just took a picture that looks like your avatar (actually it was taken out of KS, cropped and down-scaled by 2) and applied A LOT OF blur to it (this is what marked as "original" below even thou...

What exactly does this enhancement due to the regular backgrounds which were purposely already blurry and distorted? The easiest way to find out is to just take such a background and upscale it. If you can't do it yourself due to some technical reasons put the picture in here and I'll upscale it fo...

Before I forget: It turns out the the tool is a memory eater. Do not be surprised that it doesn't work if your GPU has significantly less than 4 gigabytes of RAM attached to it. Of course you can try anyway. The speed of the GPU should not matter as far as I know, except of course that it might run ...

Holy shit, this is honestly quite incredible! The only issue really is the fact that the aspect ratio obviously isn't up to modern standards. But otherwise, this is gooood Right, the aspect ratio has to stay 4:3. The AI (of 2022) can't magically turn 4:3 into 16:9 by inventing some new stuff that i...

Just generated a version up-scaled with the RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsx4 option for comparison with realesrgan-x4plus-anime (and also because I like the picture :3). The tool mentions that there is also the option RealESRGANv2-anime-xsx4 but it's broken and I can't find the files that are missing bu...

... and a side by side comparison of magnified original versus the result so you can see what I am taking about even if you forgot how the original looks like after all these years:

I recently stumbled upon this new piece of software called Real-ESRGAN. It is relatively new, looks like the last major improvement was a year ago. What it does is up-scaling small images by using trained neural networks and it manages to provide VERY impressive result for images in anime style when...

Every person on the planet is quite a ridiculous target :lol: Who said that "every person on the planet" has to be the target? "Every Steam-user who accidentally happens to see the game in the Steam store" is already A LOT. Anyway 50$ is not a lot of money, but if you could just...

I don't think there are all that many "free" games on Steam, and most of those that are are intended as advertisements for other games Actually there are quite a lot of them. 29 out of 203 games on my wish-list are free (I only didn't play them due to a lack of time). Some want to sell yo...