How to UPSCALE 4x in Midjourney v6 (Quick hack & Tools)

[@redbunnyclassic]

Excellent info on resolution/ dpi / pixels.

[@WadeMcMaster]

Thank you! It can be confusing for people

[@RolandFraunberger]

nice! luv it :) thx for sharing and taking your time to explain!

[@kelley2098]

Why would they ever get rid of this upscale feature?? it's been driving me nuts. Thanks so much for the video

[@WadeMcMaster]

I think it may have been more to do with not being able to get it work well with v6, I could be wrong. One of the reasons I always have an external upscaler like Topaz Gigapixel

[@morpheus2573]

Many thanks. Gen AI tech is definitely a strap-yourself-in ride. Great to have you cutting a swath through the jungle made of zeros & ones. 🚀

[@WadeMcMaster]

Thank you mate :) there's lots of funny work around and hacks hidden in there, I'm really trying to figure out more. Don't forget to check out Dashtoon when you get a chance! I'm hoping to give it a go soon.

[@morpheus2573]

​@@WadeMcMaster Thanks m8. I checked out Dashtoon. It looks interesting as an attempt at an all in one creation to publishing solution for beginners, but TBH, probably not for me. I have all the amazing images I need. I'm not looking for a "cookie-cutter" solution that reduces the aesthetic to a "The Sims" style punch it out environment. Call me a high brow w@nker, but... ;-)

[@morpheus2573]

@@WadeMcMaster Thanks m8. I checked out Dashtoon. It looks interesting as an attempt at an all in one creation to publishing solution for beginners, but TBH, probably not for me. I have all the amazing images I need. I'm not looking for a "cookie-cutter" solution that reduces the aesthetic to a "The Sims" style punch it out environment. Call me a high brow winker in a Kiwi accent, but... ;-)

[@WadeMcMaster]

Fair enough, I still haven't tried it. I will be be (finally soon) looking at character consistency but have had a hectic few weeks. When I do, I'll plan on a follow up 'creating a comic with Ai's style video also. It may take some time but it is coming!

[@morpheus2573]

@@WadeMcMaster Looking forward to it. AI-Comic-Factory on Hugging Face is interesting. But again... with Midjourney, I don't really need an inbuilt image creation package that limits stylistic output. MJ + InDesign seems like a good workflow for the moment. At least until someone like Leonardo recognise the niche and create a fully customisable storytelling functionality. PS. I'm not sure what triggered Nanny YT to delete my previous comment. 🙄

[@jagadnath9745]

I tried your hack with MJ and it works fine. But I compared a 4X upscale from MJ to a 4X upscale from Topaz Photo AI and to be honest the Topaz upscale beat the MJ upscale hands down. The detail from Topaz was far more crispier and relevant whereas the MJ upscale was not pixelated but blurry without any extra detail added. Thanks for the hack but I will definitely stay with Topaz for now. Cheers though.

[@WadeMcMaster]

I agree, Topaz is the best out there. A must have!

[@jiayouzg8284]

Agree

[@interestedineverything1392]

Thanks a lot!

[@WadeMcMaster]

No worries! Glad I could help.

[@ClipperRoad]

Great video, thank you.

[@WadeMcMaster]

Glad you liked it! Thank you

[@edwardferry8247]

Very ingenious 🎉👏

[@WadeMcMaster]

Thank you!

[@RoyalRajwadaPhotography]

amazing video very helpful, thanks man

[@WadeMcMaster]

Glad you liked it! Thank you :)

[@Fuiyahh]

Just a tip.. the upscale 4x doesn't work with niji 6.. just remove the prompt from the 'vary region' process

[@WadeMcMaster]

Good to know! Thank you

[@mwj5368]

I liked and subscribed. What if I already created an image for my book cover in MidJourney and I can't find the moment I created it as it is lost in the hundreds of others creating images. I tried about 20 times in 2 hours and none of them show up when I scroll back to try to find the two images I saved yesterday to my computer. The image in my computer is 640 x 640 but I think it has very low pixels or resolution. How do I insert the image into the MidJourney system so I can use the Upscaler tools? Thanks for a nice video.

[@WadeMcMaster]

Thanks mate! Also, you can't upload and upscale your image in Midjourney, but you can in the universal upscalers with Leonardo ai, which has a free tier. But otherwise, have you tried the search function on the midjourney website? Punch in a word (or try a few) that you think you used in the prompt.

[@mwj5368]

@@WadeMcMaster I am very grateful as your advice is a leap for me and thinking of moving my Rapid Release date with KDP because as it is KDP added in my publishing process that all must be ready by 8-28-24 for my 9-1-24 rapid release date and I also have to make a website to build, something I've never done, before my launch plus trilogy covers for three books I want to have in paperback and hardcover. In MidJourney, by doing that search with words from my descriptions do you mean MidJourney will come up with other covers designed in the past and present those as possibilities? My trilogy is titled for book one, "The Silver Slipper Affair #1 The Particles of Tunguska". I found a nice cover with my protag a 17yr old girl gazing at a silver slipper that is glowing etc and a commenter at MidJourney said its a beautiful cover but it didn't match my blurb for book one that ends with the words "Do or die." about my protag who risks her life many times by the end. It's easy because of the Wizard of Oz references (no Oz characters etc) that it can seem fairy tale like and this person said my cover doesn't represent the real story which is not at all a fairy tale. So MidJourney after many tries came up with a silver slipper with an atomic bomb mushroom cloud coming out of it. It was great and also the commenter said it much better represents my blurb. My projected age scale is 13 and up. I'm worried about the younger end of my age scale that I think might be the majority of my readers, however I know adults will like it too. So a 13 year old sees just a slipper with an atomic bomb cloud is going to be confused rather than intrigued and including the face of my protag will help but I wanted my protag within the mushroom part of the cloud and MidJourney for the life of me would not do it. It would put her face in the background, on top, under, beside, the cloud but not within. So you mean Leonardo will do that easily and create my image to KDP specs? A guy just said now in the KDP forum that KDP is now requiring 600 dpi but at the website I can't find that new requirement. Have you heard of that? Anyway, I'm very glad you told me MidJourney doesn't have the tools to make my 640 x 640 image into 300dpi (or 600) nor to the proper dimensions and the right aspect ratio for a 6 x 9 inch cover. So Leonardo does all of that in a user-friendly way? Thanks very much as you have been a great help! I'll try to find an intro video to Leonardo here on KZbin.

[@WadeMcMaster]

I'm not as familiar with kdp, but if it is 600dpi, grab topaz Gigapixel and upscale. It should hit that easily. Also by search I meant you can go to organize on the site and search your old images with a word used in the prompt of thebi age you were after. I hope it all goes well for you mate, it sounds like you've worked incredibly hard so you deserve the success :)

[@Matthew-m2y5v]

can i also know what use cases would you need upscaling? im into animation now and only played with ai for logos really but im now looking for workflows for films. pixel has always been that scary thing for me to understand how to use for my advantage since becoming a digital painter from tradition pen and paper. The sizes of the canvas are confusing for digital. nothing like print paper

[@WadeMcMaster]

Primarily printing requires much higher resolution to look good, but even if you just want a larger image for video it can be useful

[@angelamarie709]

thank you for this!

[@WadeMcMaster]

No problem, thank you!

[@Matthew-m2y5v]

how do you know how big they are? does it tell you somewhere

[@WadeMcMaster]

I just downloaded the images and checked the size. It's been consistent for a year or so

[@peace.n.blessings5579]

What about Upscayl? Any good?

[@WadeMcMaster]

Upscayl doesn't do as well out of the box, but do I need to deep dive a bit to see what's possible with it. But it is really good for a free option!

[@alphamercury]

I use both Upscayl and Gigapixel AI. Depending on the type of image Upscayl will give some great results (such as digital art with its preset), the upscaled image is sharp but does however reduces the details of the image (for example it will cut out small details like birds flying at a distance). If you want to keep the details Gigapixel is amazing.

[@LouisGedo]

Good tutorial!

[@WadeMcMaster]

Thank you Louis! I had fun comparing these upscalers :)

[@LouisGedo]

@WadeMcMaster I have always wondered if, in Topaz GigaPixel, it's better to upscale incrementally to 6X or at one time? Have you experimented with testing the best method? Also, I'm guessing that it's just a matter of time that we will see text prompting creative upscaling in GigaPixel. Seems like a natural workflow improvement. 🙏

[@WadeMcMaster]

I agree about the prompting, I have also never tried I crementally upscaling - but I love the thought! I will definitely try it out! I have upscaled twice to 20,000 pixels ish before, that worked well

[@LouisGedo]

@@WadeMcMaster 20,000 pixels in Topaz GigaPixel?

[@WadeMcMaster]

Yeah by upscaling once, then reupscaling the upscaled image.

[@LouisGedo]

Hi