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OK - full disclosure: This picture from 2004 taken on a Sony Cyber-Shot P1 and clocked in at a paltry 812x576 resolution. While fine for 2004, it might be time to try out any variety of magic unleased by Topaz or On1 with their AI-driven enlarging, denoising, sharpening, name-something. Well, for this photo, I test drove Topaz' Photo AI which I used to denoise, sharpen, and enhance -- which is their way of saying "enlarging with extrapolating magic to fill in the larger real estate intelligently." The results you can see for yourself. It's not going to stand up to someone looking at the thing on a wide screen monitor at 4K, but it looks pretty good for figuring how to make a 19-year-old JPG 4 times the size, soaking up a fair amount of noise and sharpening up a soft - or at least not tack-sharp - bittern. I'm not still not sure what to think about all this. It uses AI, but it's my photos...just better. Of course, I feel that way about just about any extensive photo editing, though I'm learning subtle things that will, hopefully, improve my output. Still...here's a 19-year-old picture of an American Bittern taken with a ~2MP camera that is now bigger and better.

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OK - full disclosure: This picture from 2004 taken on a Sony Cyber-Shot P1 and clocked in at a paltry 812x576 resolution. While fine for 2004, it might be time to try out any variety of magic unleased by Topaz or On1 with their AI-driven enlarging, denoising, sharpening, name-something. Well, for this photo, I test drove Topaz' Photo AI which I used to denoise, sharpen, and enhance -- which is their way of saying "enlarging with extrapolating magic to fill in the larger real estate intelligently." The results you can see for yourself. It's not going to stand up to someone looking at the thing on a wide screen monitor at 4K, but it looks pretty good for figuring how to make a 19-year-old JPG 4 times the size, soaking up a fair amount of noise and sharpening up a soft - or at least not tack-sharp - bittern. I'm not still not sure what to think about all this. It uses AI, but it's my photos...just better. Of course, I feel that way about just about any extensive photo editing, though I'm learning subtle things that will, hopefully, improve my output. Still...here's a 19-year-old picture of an American Bittern taken with a ~2MP camera that is now bigger and better.