I just discovered Krea this morning. You can input a low-resolution image, and upscale it using AI. This means if you have a far-away image made with Bing, for example, you can zoom right in and see details that weren't in the Bing image. For example, blurry eyes or fake lips. The Krea software will replace them with new AI clear and realistic features, skin, etc. etc. So it's doing a lot more than just upscaling.
Here are some mostly Bing images of mine, that I ran through Krea. Some were made with Perchance. They are so clear and realistic now. It's very impressive how well this seems to work.
Here is an untouched BING image on the left, after zooming in, and the same spot after running it through Krea . . . Krea didn't just sharpen existing pixels, it used AI to create new ones! This is amazing!
Well.... holy shit. That's about all I can say. I just tried it with one of my images. It started off good and clear, but it has the standard "baby bottom" smooth skin on the face that you get a lot of from Bing. After running it through Krea, the skin is skin. There are pores. It's amazing. Thank you for pointing this out! I had run a couple of prompts through Krea for image creation before, but wasn't impressed with the images I received back, so I hadn't messed with it any more.
I hadn't checked out Krea, but was inspired to by this thread! The free offering is based on 3 minutes of computing time (per day presumably) and it's quite slow to produce images, so the time soon disappears.
I was interested to see what it would do with a reasonably simple (for me!) wetlook-only image and the results can be seen below. I haven't researched the settings, so left them on the defaults for this, although I did populate the Prompts field with something similar to the one used for my original image on Microsoft Designer. First is the original Designer image and then the Krea enhanced/upscaled one. The realism, quality and clarity are miles better with Krea (surprisingly so to me), but the key question is whether the wet appearance of the the dress has been improved? I'd be interested in others' thoughts on that.
Wetmaxiskirts said: ... the key question is whether the wet appearance of the the dress has been improved? I'd be interested in others' thoughts on that.
To me, the darker fabric shows that it's wetter in the Krea image. The white fabric at the top front didn't show much difference as far as wetness goes, but overall I think it's a vastly improved image. Most noticeably to my eyes, the 'AI face' is now a human face. (even though it's still AI)
Wetmaxiskirts said: ... the key question is whether the wet appearance of the the dress has been improved? I'd be interested in others' thoughts on that.
To me, the darker fabric shows that it's wetter in the Krea image. The white fabric at the top front didn't show much difference as far as wetness goes, but overall I think it's a vastly improved image. Most noticeably to my eyes, the 'AI face' is now a human face. (even though it's still AI)
I appreciate your thoughts on that. Here are 2 more images for comparison, this time of a much more complicated scene.
The first thing to say is the way in which Krea is able to repair the deformed faces that often occur in Bing/Designer is nothing short of astounding. The level of detail and clarity provided by Krea is also staggering.
On the flip side, Krea's lost the colour vibrancy from several of the dresses (I tried it with and without colour correction - the image here is with, as without generated even more washed out colours).I'm not sure that Krea is handling the water spray very realistically either, but hopefully that will come in time.
Again though, how do people think the wetlook element compares?
I can see an improvement in some of my images that I wouldn't have been able to achieve using Photoshop Elements. (The one with the short silver dress is fantastic.
I have to admit I was kind of admitting that in some of the wetlook Krea would add the nipples that Bing would have a seizure over.