Ultra Upscale API

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Ultra Upscale is a new upscaling technique which does upscaling with noise suppression. It works well on images with faces, small resolution images, stickers and objects with geometric shapes and clear edges. Upscale ultra increases the quality and resolution of low quality photos by leveraging predictive and generative AI technology in order to "complete" missing pixels for a best in class smoothing and enhancement effect. It works especially good on small resolution images with faces. Images can be upscaled up to 16 times. Supported source image formats are JPG, PNG, TIFF and WEBP. Up to 64Mpx size of output images.

All three APIs are leveraging predictive and generative AI to improve the quality of the image. Ultra Upscale and Enhance can increase image quality up to 16 times, Ultra Upscale works best with images with noise and very small size, while Enhance works better on images without noise and preserves details in a superior way, especially when images require smoothening. Upscale API increases the quality and resolution of the photos by 8 times and works best on images without noise.

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A ‘preview’ is a specific type of API call that gives the users an idea of what the final edit would look like with a smaller image and lower resolution than what the final image will look like. For certain APIs, e.g. Effects and Masks, there is preview functionality that can be used. Calls made to ‘preview’ APIs are not charged.

At the moment Remove Background, Effects, Text to Image (Generative AI) and Upscale (only for the print use case - adjusts the image DPI) are available for Editor SDK. We are working on adding more APIs to the Editor SDK.