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moflih.morad

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Lately artwork restorer seems to be more more unwilling to share their work with the community some of them think that their work will be used commercially and they will not benefit from that.
personally i dont care if someone use my work for benefit or not. so i just want to share with you guys an easy way that i think might help a lot of you restoring your arcade artworks for a renovation project given the condition that you will not be too picky about details.
well in short the solution is to use an AI upscaling software, yes i know its not that good but that's what i thought too, but given the nature of most simplistic 90's and 80's artworks
AI upscaling might surprise you at how good it does upscaling.
below is an example of what it can do:
i picked a cadillacs and dinosaurs flyer from flyers.arcade and applied Ai upscaling to it
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keep in mind that these uploaded comparison pictures are not as good as the resulted upscaled image due to upload limits
the result is staggering, for those of you who do artwork restore you can use this upscaled image as a base for easier restore since its much cleare

well here is the software i have used its called Upscayl and its a freeware
https://upscayl.org/#download

good luck and i would like to have your feed back and ideas, thank you
 
Love this idea, have been experimenting with the same thing and the results are amazingly good, all expectations exceeded.

Thank you for posting the c&d images, this game has some stunning art; amazing to see it look so good
 
There! Thanks again @moflih.morad !!
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wow that's pretty awesome prints, well for the text part, you could go a step further and try to find the same font
with the help of a font identifier like "https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont" load the font in photoshop and write the exact same text on top of the unclear one.
thx for sharing.
we are no artists, but we can manage to get a good results hh
 
Love this idea, have been experimenting with the same thing and the results are amazingly good, all expectations exceeded.

Thank you for posting the c&d images, this game has some stunning art; amazing to see it look so good
c&d was the pinnacle of what capcom could do in the beat'em all genre it's a classic and its artwork is none the less ......
 
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