While messing around making gifs for the streams, I found a good predictive image up-scaler, which instead of just averaging pixels,
uses vectors to do a much better job, and this one was specifically tuned for anime art styles, I tried it on a few of the stream emotes,
and was pleasantly surprised at its quality
example with one of the stream emotes:
( https://imgur.com/a/P8yw2 )
So, I downloaded the program (so I wouldn't have to fill out a captcha every time) and began up-scaling the comic.
(i like to zoom in on things and the original quality felt lacking)
After 50 hrs of chugging away on my laptop, It finished yesterday.
The finished pages are each around 1600x2200 (vs original 800x1100) and are each about 12mb,
The entirety of the up-scaled comic is about 2gb (zipped)(12gb unzipped), and since I don't currently have my own server It is only available as a google drive link. (on one of my secondary accounts due to storage limitations)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwjqK ... 0tILTFIeDQ
If y'all think this is nice or a good idea, I'll try to keep it updated as new pages come out.
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Interesting... I'll look into it later.
Also, nice choice on the emote you used to test it on.
Also, nice choice on the emote you used to test it on.
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I guess you used waifu2x. Yes, sometimes it works wonders. For example, the result of this program is better even than the paid book version.
https://yadi.sk/i/kJShhool3MRyyK
But the text ... sometimes waifu2x breaks the fonts. Ideally, use the speechless version and redraw the bubbles. But this is VERY MUCH of work, so I do not think there is a need for this.Maybe the result is not perfect, but it's good.
And unfortunately waifu2x can not recover lost information. For example, to restore the hearts in the eyes of Natani on 973 page.
https://yadi.sk/i/6CGszeDL3NHNgT
https://yadi.sk/i/kJShhool3MRyyK
But the text ... sometimes waifu2x breaks the fonts. Ideally, use the speechless version and redraw the bubbles. But this is VERY MUCH of work, so I do not think there is a need for this.Maybe the result is not perfect, but it's good.
And unfortunately waifu2x can not recover lost information. For example, to restore the hearts in the eyes of Natani on 973 page.
https://yadi.sk/i/6CGszeDL3NHNgT
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yes I did, it works quite well on the sketches too
yes, In your example, the up-scaled version looks nicer due to the de-noising abilities of the programiliar wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:49 am Yes, sometimes it works wonders. For example, the result of this program is better even than the paid book version.
https://yadi.sk/i/kJShhool3MRyyK
also, is the comic available as a pdf in a higher resolution for money? i might need to get that.
I did notice that, it sometimes combines letters and smudges them, however the text dosnt really need to be enhanced, since you dont need a ton of pixels to differentiate letters, however there isn't a way lo change it so it leaves letters alone. I could go and remove then reinsert the original speech bubbles, however this would hake a LONG time,
I'm currently seeing if I can get my hands on an nvidia gpu, so that i can use it to process the comic to 4x, since doing so on my cpu would take an obscene amount of time, and the end files would be massive as well.
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Wait, seriously? I never noticed the heart eyes, and now I can't stop thinking how cute it is... and how cute Keith is... and how Natani is cute...
What were we talking about?
What were we talking about?
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Yes, you can buy a digital edition:Qwe304 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 3:49 pmyes, In your example, the up-scaled version looks nicer due to the de-noising abilities of the programiliar wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:49 am Yes, sometimes it works wonders. For example, the result of this program is better even than the paid book version.
https://yadi.sk/i/kJShhool3MRyyK
also, is the comic available as a pdf in a higher resolution for money? i might need to get that.
https://keenspotshop.com/collections/twokinds
But... yes, technically this version has a higher resolution than the WEB version. But the JPG artifacts spoil everything.
Re: Up-scaling comic pages
Have you tried using the auto denoise function? it you set the scale to 1x and enable that, it should quickly go through the pages and remove artifacting
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No. Auto denoise function often damage small details. I tried to do it on the last pages. And I did not like the result. The foliage on the trees was damaged.