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Specific Could someone please help me help my mom out?


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This is a picture of my mom's great grandfathers house in Ireland. She recently visited Ireland and took this picture and would like to print, frame and hang it in her house. Unfortunately, there's what looks like a bed frame leaning against the house and powerlines in the picture. Making it look a little ghetto. I, and she, would really appreciate someone's skills in removing these two distractions. I apologize in advance for the low resolution of the picture. Taken from an old lady style "smart" phone (or as she calls it, "fancy computer phone").

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This is far from perfect yet did some enlargement, toning, and cloning to try and spiff it up. Not perfect yet it was a tough starting image for me.
Hope you enjoy the result
John Wheeler

ADDED EDIT - I made some changes to the cloning on the windows to make it a little bit less obvious

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Dormeur74 said:
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A perfect work for me. Incredible! Could you explain ?
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Sure

- I started with using Topaz AI GigaPixel to enlarge the image 6X. It is hit or miss on how well it works yet was decent on this image
- Brought into PS, turned the Layer into a Smart Object and used the Camera Raw filter in a variety of adjustments to the image
-- I used the spot removal tool for the telephone line and a pole in the image
-- I increased the contrast, greatly reduced the highlights, increased clarity and also the saturation (also increased the shadows)
-- In HSL panel I slight increase the blues slider to be a bit more blue (the sky) and also reduced the saturation some to taste
- Back to PS, added blank Layer and used the Vanishing Point filter to clone out the bedframe and clone in the left window using the right side of the building as reference
- Another blank Layer and cloned in grass along the bottom of left side of building
- Another blank Layer to clean up the sky a bit with healing brush and between the two trees to the left of the building
- I actually posted at this point yet went back to change the left window to look less cloned. I moved what appears to be a shade or ? moved it up higher, changed the left edge of the window to look visually different, and healed some areas in the window and around the window to look somewhat different that the right window area. Just enough difference to it would not catch the eye as well.

Topaz AI Gigapixel created some artifacts in the image that I did not pursue e.g. it made things sharper in some areas yet trees in positions in similar focal planes were not as sharp which would not be normal. However, given the state of the original image, I decided that such defects could be chaulked up to the original image having issues. Creating false detetail where it did not exist with AI has its pros and cons.

Hope this gives you an idea of the most of the steps I took
John Wheeler
 
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Wow, you're amazing! I know little to nothing of the processes here but I feel this outcome is perfect! Can't thank you enough for your efforts!
 
I used Genuine Fractals and Photozoom Pro, but Topaz is far better. I bought it immediately. For me this house in Ireland is a gift from heaven. :cool:
 
Like space travel, the dream of upscaling eventually became a reality.

The problem with Topaz, is that it creates artefacts that take a long time to sometimes manually remove. (Some underlying problem with the software, or "tiling" within the software, NOT to do with the AI, which is clearly excellent). Its strange they have not managed to sort this out. Yours is a great example of where it succeeds.

People were trying for years before it was actually possible, to produce software that could create 'something out of nothing' on low-res images. The history of this is somewhat hilarious: For companies were trying to convince customers that this was possible with simple resampling algorithms for years, to the point it was ridiculous.
 
MarkZ said:
Like space travel, the dream of upscaling eventually became a reality.

The problem with Topaz, is that it creates artefacts that take a long time to sometimes manually remove. (Some underlying problem with the software, or "tiling" within the software, NOT to do with the AI, which is clearly excellent). Its strange they have not managed to sort this out. Yours is a great example of where it succeeds.
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I have found Gigapixel AI to be a mixed bag. Some types of images it does consistently great, some types are usually terrible, and all the others it is hit or miss. I am getting a feel for its capabilities. It also works better when not starting with a JPEG image. It worked well on this image. It does have artifacts in this image yet not large enough to be an obvious distraction when looking at the whole image. If you go searching for them, they become more obvious. Overall, I find Gigapixel AI a good tool for the toolbox and it can do things I could not do any other reasonable way when it works.
The bottom line ends up being how does the end user see the image as opposed to any technical criteria.
 
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