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Topaz Gigapixel is quite good though despite the negative comments in the article. I'd rather give my money to Topaz for this one feature than keep paying Adobe subscription fees indefinitely

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I've been using it for a year. Each version gets a little better than the last and it gets regular updates.

It also has the rather large benefit of not being tied to Creative Cloud, which is one of the worst bits of software ever made.

"worst bits of software ever made"? That's harsh. But didn't they lose people's data recently? My memory is blurry.

I don't know about losing data, but if you install the base Creative Cloud application on Mac, a whole bunch of processes run in the background that can't be easily terminated.

Because they're David to Adobe's Goliath, I also feel compelled to mention that I've just recently discovered/purchased this and am incredibly impressed with it.

Look into Cupscale, it’s a GUI for all of the ESRGAN models.

https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale

Also Waifu2X (don't be put off by the name).

https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

It has several models for processing animation and photos.

If you want it even tediously automates the scaling of videos and GIFs by exporting each frame, upscaling, and joining back together.

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