upscayl VS Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan

Windows has caused us a lot of issues with Upscayl (https://upscayl.org).

I personally do not use Windows but most of our errors are reported by Windows users where sometimes path parsing is a problem or the drivers mess up vulkan configuration.

> I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.

That's actually what's written on https://upscayl.org, "From Science Fiction to Reality" haha

that website? No, I just used upscayl with the Digital Art preset

Upscayl, I've used it before, it's great

You can use Upscayl on pc and SuperImage on android to enhance your image so you don't have to find the hd version, both the applications uses you device's gpu to enhance your image.

might as well just run upscayl locally then. https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Instead of finding images that are already FullHD, I've found an open source software for image upscaling which seems to work very well with digital art/styles similar to something like Studio Ghibli, which is the style as was going for, so works great for me!

Considering a 4080RTX for AI tools performance in the future, noticed a big performance gap in upscayl, while using a rtx card vs non rtx https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Here is what I used: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Don't even need topaz, there's plenty of free upscale models check the openmodeldb, and you have reve which is based on Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan.

Real-ESRGAN/GFPGAN https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN (Real-ESRAN - Upscale images, facial restoration with GFPGAN setting) https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN (GFPGAN - Facial restoration and Upscale) -------MATTE AND COMPOSITE--------

If you mean by free software, sure there are options. But you'll spend a lot of time to do that. You can try https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN or similar tools

I’m actually on a Mac using the ncnn Vulkan binaries for Real ESRGAN. It’s not all that flexible but it’s pretty quick. There are other options but I have not looked into it.

I personally use real esrgan and I think it's great. it requires manual work tho but it's easy once you do it a few times

REAL-ESRGAN was used for upscaling (using waifu2x-extension GUI) and can be found here.