Did Photoshop’s New Feature Just Crush This AI Product?
Summary
While the earliest implementations were a bit of a gimmick, powerful tools and developments from companies like Adobe, NVIDIA, and Luminar have brought AI to the end-user in a meaningful way. Currently available in Camera Raw 13.2 and coming soon to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, Super Resolution uses a machine learning model to “intelligently enlarge photos while maintaining clean edges and preserving important details.” In practice, it’s a one-click way to quadruple your photo’s megapixel count, while retaining much more detail than “dumb” upscaling, like bicubic and nearest neighbor methods. While these files are unprocessed, each program handled them slightly differently, the most important distinction being ACR automatically applying lens corrections. They can be a bit noisy even at low ISOs, and the Quad Bayer sensor, like Fuji’s X-Trans, has historically had problems with some demosaicing processes. To that end, I was curious how these two scaling methods would work with a file offering a mix of organic shapes and straight lines, along with some fine details.
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