Adobe Photoshop has a new AI feature that can quadruple the number of pixels in your photos.
The tool, called Super Resolution, is already available in Camera Raw 13.2 and soon in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.
The feature uses a machine-learning model trained on millions of photos to enlarge images while preserving its clean edges and fine details.
Programmer Eric Chan said it is very simple to use:
Press a button and watch your 10 megapixel photo transform into a 40 megapixel photo. It’s a little bit like Mario eats a mushroom and suddenly becomes Super Mario, but without the cool sound effects.
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The feature can breathe new life into photos taken with older cameras.
While it is generally not as useful for modern high-resolution cameras, it can still be useful for certain tasks, such as working with well-cropped photos.
Adobe developed the feature by training the model in millions of pairs of low- and high-resolution image patches.
These spots are cut from detailed regions of real photos, such as flowers and fabrics. When the model receives enough examples of different subjects, it learns to improve the low-resolution images while maintaining the details.
To use Super Resolution in Photoshop, just right-click on a photo and select “Enhance …” from the context menu.
The system will spit out an enhanced negative digital file (DNG) that can be edited like any other image.
Although Super Resolution works best on raw files taken directly from a camera, it can also enhance other formats, such as JPEGs, PNGs and GIFs.
The feature is currently limited to images smaller than 500 megapixels, but that should be more than enough for everything except huge panoramas.
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Published on March 11, 2021 – 14:28 UTC