Adobe Photoshop has a new AI feature that can double the number of pixels in your photos.
The tool, called Super Resolution, is now shipped in Camera Raw 13.2 and will be coming to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic soon.
The feature uses a machine learning model trained on millions of photos to enlarge images maintaining their 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 bit like how Mario eats a mushroom and suddenly balloons in Super Mario, but without the clever sound effects.
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The feature can breathe new life into photos shot with older cameras.
While it will generally not be as convenient 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 on millions of pairs of low-resolution image patches.
These spots are crops from detailed regions of real photos, such as flowers and materials. If enough examples of different topics are given to the model, it learns to upgrade low-resolution images while retaining the details.
To use Super Resolution in Photoshop, just right-click on a photo and select “Enhance …” from the context menu.
The system will then spit out an enhanced Digital Negative (DNG) file that can be edited like any other image.
While 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 should be more than enough for anything but huge panoramas.
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Published on March 11, 2021 – 14:28 UTC