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DALLE images are still only 1024 px wide. Which has its uses, but I don’t think the stock photo industry is in real danger until someone figures out a better AI
by thorum 4y ago
DALLE images are still only 1024 px wide. Which has its uses, but I don’t think the stock photo industry is in real danger until someone figures out a better AI superresolution system that can produce larger and more detailed images.
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- arecurrence 4y agoYou can obtain any size by using the source image with the masking feature. Take the original and shift it then mask out part of the scene and re-run. Sort of like a patchwork quilt, it will build variations of the masked areas with each generation. Once the API is released, this will be easier to do in a programmatic fashion. Note: Depending on how many times you do this... I could see there being a continuity problem with the extremes of the image (eg: the far left has no knowledge of the far right). An alternative could be to scale the image down and mask the borders then later scale it back up to the desired resolution. This scale and mask strategy also works well for images where part of the scene has been clipped that you want to include (EG: Part of a character's body outside the original image dimensions). Scale the image down, then mask the border region, and provide that to the generation step.
- eigenvalue 4y agoI've been using this app to upscale the images to 4000x4000, and it works amazingly well (there is also a version for Android): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waifu2x/id1286485858 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waifu2x/id1286485858 I paid extra to get the higher quality model using the in-app purchase option. It crushes the phone's battery life, but runs in only ~10 seconds on an iPhone 13 Pro for a single 1000x1000 input image.
- ZeWaka 4y agoI mean, waifu2x and similar waifuxx libraries are free and open-source, there's really no reason to pay for it if you're working on a desktop.
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- anhner 4y agowhat's a desktop? /s
- andybak 4y agoThings have moved on a considerable amount since waifu2x Try https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale
- eigenvalue 4y agoThanks, that’s actually the “better” model that I referenced. You can buy it with an in-app purchase using the waifu2x app.
- MrBra 4y agoI've recently updated waifu2x and I've seen it now supports lots of algorithms for different use cases and contexts and it also supports other tasks like frame interpolation. So could you briefly explain in what is cupscale better than it?
- andybak 4y agoCupscale supports multiple models tuned for different types of content (including Anime like waifu2x): https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database
- nuclearsugar 4y agoDallE2 + Topaz Gigapixel AI works amazingly well.
- csteubs 4y agoAnother commenter mentioned Topaz AI upscaling, and Pixelmator has the "ML Super Resolution" feature; both work remarkably well IMO. There are a number of drop-in and system default resolution enhancement processes that work in a pinch, but the quality is lacking compared to the commercial solutions. There are still some areas where DALL-E 2 is lacking in realism, but anyone handy with photo editing tools could amend those shortcomings fairly quickly. On-demand stock photo generation probably is the next step, particularly when combined with other free media services (Unsplash immediately comes to mind). Simply choose a "look" or base image, add contextual details, and out pops a 1 of 1 stock photo at a fraction of the cost of standard licensing. It'll be very exciting seeing what new products/services will make use of the DALL-E API, how and where they integrate with other APIs, use cases, value adds like upscaling and formatting, etc.