Purchased Aiarty Image Enhancer - Sample

[monte12345]

It seems to do a rather good job at AI upsizing if you limits the peeps of the Upsized image to 140% or lower, go to a higher magnification and it starts to look cartoonish. One thing I'm not fond of is that your can't do something like a 1.5X upsize, it starts at 2X and goes up from their. Note they do have a custom size button but it seems that will only downsize the image. Attached are matching crops from the original and the 2X upsize. What I am looking for here is either a positive or negative opinion and comments if you folks spot something I may have missed.

 

[stormyboy]

I noticed a brightness and color change.

 

[ishwanu]

What I am looking for here is either a positive or negative opinion and comments if you folks spot something I may have missed.

I find the artificially exaggerated sharpening incongruous and unpleasant.

 

[Major Jack]

It seems to do a rather good job at AI upsizing if you limits the peeps of the Upsized image to 140% or lower, go to a higher magnification and it starts to look cartoonish. One thing I'm not fond of is that your can't do something like a 1.5X upsize, it starts at 2X and goes up from their. Note they do have a custom size button but it seems that will only downsize the image. Attached are matching crops from the original and the 2X upsize. What I am looking for here is either a positive or negative opinion and comments if you folks spot something I may have missed.

Hi Monte,

Thanks for posting.

I find the image fantastic to be honest for a 4x increase. I compared the two images in Photoshop, and in my opinion, I would be pleased with the new size. In fact, in some areas of the photo, I see a significant increase in sharpness and clarity, and that is highly unusual when increasing resolution.

I rarely upsize an image, rarely, but when I do, it is because I want to print it larger and need more resolution for the printer. My bet is, that if you printed these two images at 8x10, you would not see much difference from 2-3 feet distance. A Pixel Peeper would see some differences, but not significant in my opinion.

Now, with all that stated, I would make one change to the image, which I know is not the topic of your thread, but would, imo, make the image better. Bring out the detail in the shadow areas, maybe like this with HDR toning.




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Major Jack
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[pop2eye]

I find Aiarty Image Enhancer to be an interesting little app. However, the changes it makes to colors and saturation (especially of the red channel) make it difficult to use on a consistent basis. Below is an example where I processed a photo with Aiarty Real-Photo v3, no upscale, and no other changes.


Original photo


Processed with Aiarty Real-Photo v3 and no upscale

 

[s_grins]

Major Jack,

You've proved that nothing can compete with human talants.

Regards

S.

 

[Major Jack]

I find Aiarty Image Enhancer to be an interesting little app. However, the changes it makes to colors and saturation (especially of the red channel) make it difficult to use on a consistent basis. Below is an example where I processed a photo with Aiarty Real-Photo v3, no upscale, and no other changes.


Original photo


Processed with Aiarty Real-Photo v3 and no upscale

If you do not mind me asking, what where you trying to accomplish with your changes that could have altered the red channel so much? It appears to me, that a "temperature" shift was made, and it altered the red channel, and even the yellows, if you look at the two images STACKED and ALIGNED. The ONLY things I see changed, are the Carpet color, and the wall color behind the bed, (yellows). That appears to me to be some type of color shift, or "temperture" change, whether you did it, or the software did it on its own.

But, what were YOU trying to accomplish with the photo? Because I see nothing else that has changed in the photograph. Just curious.

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Major Jack
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[Major Jack]

Major Jack,

You've proved that nothing can compete with human talants.

Regards

S.

Very kind of you s-grins. Thank you for your words.

 

[pop2eye]

I find Aiarty Image Enhancer to be an interesting little app. However, the changes it makes to colors and saturation (especially of the red channel) make it difficult to use on a consistent basis. Below is an example where I processed a photo with Aiarty Real-Photo v3, no upscale, and no other changes.


Original photo


Processed with Aiarty Real-Photo v3 and no upscale

If you do not mind me asking, what where you trying to accomplish with your changes that could have altered the red channel so much? It appears to me, that a "temperature" shift was made, and it altered the red channel, and even the yellows, if you look at the two images STACKED and ALIGNED. The ONLY things I see changed, are the Carpet color, and the wall color behind the bed, (yellows). That appears to me to be some type of color shift, or "temperture" change, whether you did it, or the software did it on its own.

But, what were YOU trying to accomplish with the photo? Because I see nothing else that has changed in the photograph. Just curious.

I wanted AI noise reduction, which Aiarty did a good job with. But Aiarty also changes the colors and does not provide the user with any controls to modify or prevent the color changes.

 

[Major Jack]

I find Aiarty Image Enhancer to be an interesting little app. However, the changes it makes to colors and saturation (especially of the red channel) make it difficult to use on a consistent basis. Below is an example where I processed a photo with Aiarty Real-Photo v3, no upscale, and no other changes.


Original photo


Processed with Aiarty Real-Photo v3 and no upscale

If you do not mind me asking, what where you trying to accomplish with your changes that could have altered the red channel so much? It appears to me, that a "temperature" shift was made, and it altered the red channel, and even the yellows, if you look at the two images STACKED and ALIGNED. The ONLY things I see changed, are the Carpet color, and the wall color behind the bed, (yellows). That appears to me to be some type of color shift, or "temperture" change, whether you did it, or the software did it on its own.

But, what were YOU trying to accomplish with the photo? Because I see nothing else that has changed in the photograph. Just curious.

I wanted AI noise reduction, which Aiarty did a good job with. But Aiarty also changes the colors and does not provide the user with any controls to modify or prevent the color changes.

Ahhh, OK. I see the noise reduction as a Look back on both images. Yes, it did a good job on noise. But, color shift is unacceptable, especially if it did it on its own. That would kill the software for me, because that would create an unnecessary step of having to mask that layer and paint back in the carpet area. Unacceptable. They need to fix that.

Thanks for sharing.

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Major Jack
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[tbcass]

No sharpening or other enhancements.



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Tom

 

[monte12345]

Spent a bit of time stalking squirrels today and this is one of the better results. Lighting was overhead sunlight so I had to protect the highlights and rely on DXO to lift the shadows with the aid of their new VR masking. Out of curiosity I threw in the Aiarty upsize just to see what happened. Note, I have seen the same color/lightness shift but it's so subtle in most cases that it doesn't bother me. I agree that Aiarty needs to work on resolving that because this app should be completely neutral in regards to color and levels.

Anyhow here are images of the starting crop and the final result. As can be Seen DXO Photolab 9 is every bit as good as the reviews now being posted. Correcting the levels in the source image took about 5 minutes and I wasn't hurrying at all and completely new to AI masking. The final result will print quite nicely on a 11 x 17 inch print, perfect for a spot in my Office.

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This is the starting point.

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This is the final result.

Note on stalking Squirrels. These buggers never stop for more than 1 or 2 seconds so you have to rely on the AF and misses will happen. In this case the eyes are perfect but I do wish I had stopped the lens down 1 more stop. I will also note that the nose looks a bit like made up detail when you zoom the original size but that is a rather extreme magnification and I have not a clue if this is how a squirrels nose actually looks.

 

[s_grins]

Spent a bit of time stalking squirrels today and this is one of the better results. Lighting was overhead sunlight so I had to protect the highlights and rely on DXO to lift the shadows with the aid of their new VR masking. Out of curiosity I threw in the Aiarty upsize just to see what happened. Note, I have seen the same color/lightness shift but it's so subtle in most cases that it doesn't bother me. I agree that Aiarty needs to work on resolving that because this app should be completely neutral in regards to color and levels.

Anyhow here are images of the starting crop and the final result. As can be Seen DXO Photolab 9 is every bit as good as the reviews now being posted. Correcting the levels in the source image took about 5 minutes and I wasn't hurrying at all and completely new to AI masking. The final result will print quite nicely on a 11 x 17 inch print, perfect for a spot in my Office.

View attachment ef029835be754e908c39e1c89bcec8bc.jpg
This is the starting point.

View attachment cb19d711503d4990a4068eb40882c5a1.jpg
This is the final result.

Note on stalking Squirrels. These buggers never stop for more than 1 or 2 seconds so you have to rely on the AF and misses will happen. In this case the eyes are perfect but I do wish I had stopped the lens down 1 more stop. I will also note that the nose looks a bit like made up detail when you zoom the original size but that is a rather extreme magnification and I have not a clue if this is how a squirrels nose actually looks.

just out of curiosity, I have made the edit in SilkyPix, fast and unsophisticated. HDR slider made 90% of a job. Edit took 2-3 min.

Maybe you do not like this edit, which is totally fine with me







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[monte12345]

May open it in DXO PhotoLab and tweak the contrast and micro contrast a tiny bit. Something that really gets me a bit is if you do the magnify on the eye to the right in the image it actually show a bit of my house in the reflection. This is using a Tamron 50-300 f4.5-6.3 on my Z50II via a Viltrox adapter and I would not consider this lens as an S Line quality lens. However even if it can't match Nikon's finest it's still a rather good lens.