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Comment by jaakkoc | Hacker News Reader

Full disclaimer: the Enlarger app is something I did.

Fuller disclaimer: this kind of a "postmark"-sized pic blowup test case is borderline unfair to every model in the comparison, mine included.

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You could have also disclosed the fact that the model that you call "Enlarger — Base" is a free, open-weights model named 4xNomosWebPhoto, given that this post is apparently comparing the models. You seem to even explicitly claim it as your model in this comment.

Thanks for the feedback, I explicitly added that now to the blog post. The wording on this comment was off. That model is listed in the "Acknowledgements"-tab of the application.

The end goal on working on this program has been that the user shouldn't care much about what model/architecture/whatever tech is used, and should be abstracted away as much as possible. Though in a blog post like this it should be mentioned, it was hard to break away from that self-imposed mental jail :)

Enlarger's ear lobes are molting!

Most any upsize looks better if you toss hue protected noise back in; you've made good use of that point.

Thanks. Yeah, I used to do the tug-and-pull of scaling, then adding noise and sharpening, scaling a little more, adding more noise, adding more sharpening, etc. to ad nauseam. And photoshop sharpening was too much always for my taste.

At scale, this tool should speed that process up a "bit". Let's say 100s of photos.

I can only see a mouth and nose on mobile

Check the 2nd note of the blog post (best viewed with desktop)

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