Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

I cropped the 24mp image (6000x4000), then upsized the crop back to 6000x4000 using Topaz Gigapixel AI. Topaz has a nice Black Friday deal, so I'm playing around with Gigapixel AI.

I don't know why the 3rd one show a purple sky?? In download it shows the correct blue.

Shot this back in Feb 2020 with Sony A9 @ 600mm.

Original at 6000x4000

(Download)

Cropped to 1500x1000

(Download)

Upsized back to 6000x4000 with Gigapixel AI

(Download)

Ourspolair

Could be that you did not save it in sRGB. Amazing detail in the upsized images. Now we can save on long lenses?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

You sure hit the focus on the original. The image looks good in DL but much too over processed in DDL. I do my upsizing in PS but gigapixel looks interesting

Drip Dry McFleye

Looks pretty darn good to me!

jabra

Nice shot! Upsized image has proper background color when downloaded. Have you had a chance
to compare this process against the Photoshop offering. I hear the "Preserve Details 2.0" RAW works very well too.
Did you use RAW or jpegs with the Gigapixel AI?

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

I agree on the over processed look on close inspection. I have to play with it some more. Thanks for the comments.

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

I'll have to go back and check the srgb. Thanks!

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Tiff files. Raws were processed through captureone and converted to tiffs.

jabra

OK. That explains the absence of jpeg artifacts.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Just 'up size' back to 2048-pixels on the long side. That should minimize the painterly effect of the details and minimize the artifacts, while creating a digital image to 'fill' most every target display monitor. The halo around the bird is one distracting artifact, particularly around the tips of the wings and the entire underside of the bird.

The wing position and focus on the bird are superb! The comments here and by others seek to best harvest the results in the processing, that compliment the camera work rather than distract.

For the colorspace, the 2nd image reports being created by Lightroom. To manage the colorspace and possibly the pixel resolution, re-import the output from Gigapixel back into LR and export the result to the sRBG colorspace and see what 2048-pixels looks like after up-sizing to 24MP. Compare that flow with simply upsizing the crop within LR to 2048px. You probably want something that is sharpened and noise free (blue sky) like the Topaz result, maybe a different Topaz module is the solution with LR managing the slightly increased pixel resolution and output colorspace.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Heavy cropping calls for the 7R4. Nice photos.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Topaz's GigaPixel has worked very well for me as well but I've found the process is more than just using GigaPixel, i.e.:
1. DeNoise
2. Sharpen
3. GigaPixel
And if you're starting with a JPG, use JPG to RAW first.

bwa

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Thank bwana, I'll try that.

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Good info! Thanks CNG_CANON!

Bertk Loc: NY

Great Shot. I am not good at post processing, still learning. Thus no comment.