After comments on a post I wrote about travel disasters and lost items while travelling, I struck up a conversation with reader, Jim Hughes who sadly had these amazing travel photos from 2000 in Paris. But due to incorrect settings on his camera, they are tiny. I asked Jim to send me one and I would see how much I could improve the details and image size using Topaz Labs Giga Pixel AI. What an amazing difference, taking it from 231KB to just under 12MB!
Here is the final image, although made 1600px for this article’s display.
Looking for your copy of Topaz Giga Pixel AI. Thanks Jim, for entrusting me with this travel photo. It really is fabulous, the possibilities these days.
For a photo like this, Giga Pixel works surprisingly well! Lots of little edges in the city it can work with, and the word stone texture of the gargoyle is probably not too hard to expand. I took this with a 1999 Olympus Camedia, only 2.1 megapixels – and I didn’t even get that much, because I goofed :-)
It’s pretty amazing what can be done. Granted its not the same as get it right the first time, but sometimes we all need a little help when we goof up :-) Thanks for letting me play with your photo Jim