But the stapeling isn’t the only difference since the amount of details also differs between the upscales where to my tase the Gigapixel Ai upscaler outputs the most amount of details. But it will always be easier to add more sharpening in a later stage than it is to remove the excess amount of sharpening if you want the detail to be a little softer.

Immediately I noticed that the sharpening of Gigapixel was a little strong compared to the Photoshop Enhance upscaler, but this also has to do with your own taste and style. Zooming in even further into pixel peeping mode made it easier to really notice the difference between these two upscales. Looking at the images in 100% it is really difficult to notice much difference in details between the two upscales. Photoshop Enhance after my first try was blazing fast in comparison with Gigapixel, so on speed Photoshop scores point in this area straight away. I do most of my work on a laptop so upscaling could sometimes take up a couple of minutes raising the heat of the computer making the fans kick off. One of the things I never liked with Gigapixel was its speed and intensive use of my computer power. Topaz Gigapixel Ai I have been using for a while now and I was always amazed with the results it produced, so if course I was very curious if the Photoshop Enhance feature would also give similar results. I use a lot of images for compositing and sometimes need a stock photo or a photograph I made a long time ago when digital sensors weren’t as good as nowadays, so being able to upscale a photo is a really important tool in my toolbox.

I can right away say that the results are pretty close, but there is a clear winner here. I tried this feature on a bunch of different images and compared it with Topaz Gigapixel Ai which I already owned and used a lot in the passed. With the new upscaling feature of Photoshop/Bridge Enhance image you can double the size of the original image while still maintaining image quality and details.

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