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Upscayl 2.15
www.snipca.com/57850
What you need: Windows 10 or 11, macOS or Linux
Increasing the size and resolution of images, especially photos, reduces their quality and often makes them look blocky or blurry. Upscayl offers a solution by ‘upscaling’ your pictures using AI.
Instead of stretching pixels like traditional resizing methods, Upscayl’s machine-learning models create new ones, based on the millions of images they’ve been trained on. These models identify and replicate edges, textures and fine details, to enhance quality, preserve realism and avoid distortion.
We’ve recommended Upscayl before, most recently in our ‘Your complete AI guide’ Cover Feature in Issue 706 (read it on our 2025 Back Issue CD/Stick: www.snipca.com/57526). This major update makes the program even more powerful and useful, and it’s still completely free to use (a Cloud version aimed at businesses does require a subscription).