-: Now that we have our base image that we've generated
through Midjourney, we created our variations
and then we did an upscale.
Now what I want to go into is the final upscales.
So we have three different options.
We have our make variations, we have our light upscale,
and we have our beta upscale redo.
So let's go ahead and click these three
and we'll walk through
what differences they do to our image.
Yes, and you can always see which versions,
because this can get a little hectic, as you can see,
just in this example,
we've already generated a lot of different images.
So the newest image is always gonna get put
to the bottom that was rendered and output the most recent.
And then it's always gonna say which version it was
or what you did to it last.
And there's gonna be a timestamp here
just to keep things a little bit more organized.
So these are the variations that we created.
This gave us four new options,
and this is the beta upscale,
which is gonna create the highest resolution version
with the littlest change
to what's going on in the actual image itself.
So it's gonna retain the core
of the image without moving things around.
We then have the light upscale that we did
that did not turn out well.
Sometimes this'll happen with images
where depending on if it's a face, a landscape, an animal,
a car, you know, a abstract image,
they're gonna work better
and it does take a little bit of trial and error.
They're gonna work better with different types of upscales.
So if you don't get the output that you like, for example,
this is not a desirable output.
Luckily we also did the beta upscale
and it gave us a really excellent output.
So I would recommend doing a little bit of trial and error
and find what works best for your specific image.
Let's say we're ready to move forward with this one,
which is clearly the best that we have so far.
The options that we have are, we can download this image
as is, which let's go ahead and do that.
We're gonna say that this is beta upscale
V1, that's gonna go to the downloads,
and then we can continue to upscale it.
And even we have a new function, which is called remaster.
So now let's do these three
and see what type of outputs we get.
So now we have our newly updated images,
and you can see we kind of have an issue here.
We have our upscaled, it got totally distorted,
and then we have our upscaled light
that equally got distorted as well in Midjourney.
Sometimes it's getting better day by day
and updated constantly to get better at
what it has difficulties doing, which are numbers, letters,
human faces, and anatomically correct features.
So sometimes with human portraits specifically,
you don't need to continue to upscale and upscale
and upscale because it'll start to degrade the image.
And what that tells me is I actually want
to do a second example where we're not doing human face
so that we can more specifically see
how much more detail it's adding to something
that's maybe of a car or a landscape.
But back to this example, we have our upscales
that we're not gonna use.
We could continue to retry this to get a more clean image.
I am really happy with this one,
but I want to talk about the remaster function.
Now that we're later in the process
of bringing up the resolution,
the remaster function gives us a high resolution.
So we're not starting from square one on our preview,
low resolution 512 pixels by 512 pixels.
But now what we have is a high resolution version
of two new versions that if we didn't like something
about our current version,
we can remaster it to get to newer versions.
So it's really handy for wanting
to just change a thing or two.
If we look at these side by side,
different shape in the goggles, different reflection,
different skin tone, different nationality,
and a few other little variations
with the background while retaining the really cool look
that we've developed in this process so far
of getting to this image.
So let's go ahead and look at our download,
which is 2048 pixels by 2048 pixels.
And this is what it looks like full screen.
It's not bad.
It looks really unique.
There are a few adjustments that I would continue
to do on smoothening out the skin, and it's not bad.
And it's a really cool example for this lesson.
Now, like I mentioned, what I wanted to do
is start from scratch and go through this process again
so that you can more specifically see how the upscaling
and the variations are working with something that's not
needing to be anatomically accurate.
So let's go ahead and type in sports car
with cinematic lighting.
Headlights turned on,
driving through colored smoke,
photo realistic, and let's see what we get.
Okay, and here's our output.
I actually made a spelling error
and I said sports card instead of sports car,
but I mean, I wanted to keep that in the edit
because that just shows Midjourney's creativity
and how it took what I said
and made something I was not even looking to make.
So let's go ahead and do this again.
So let's do our prompt
and make it sports car with cinematic lighting.
Here is our output.
Okay, these look really dang cool.
So what I wanna do is I wanna focus
on number one because it looks the most accurate
to what a sports car.
This looks like a made a version
of a Lamborghini looks like.
And I think it's gonna be a good base image to work with.
So I'm gonna upscale this.
Perfect.
So we have our upscaled version,
and let's go ahead and download this to see
what resolution we're at.
And we have 1024 pixels by 1024 pixels.
It's a pretty cool image already.
Now let's see how these two upscales are gonna affect
the final image we're trying to create.
We don't want to create any more variations.
We want to continue to up the resolution
and make a more professional final output.
So we have our two options.
We have our upscale light and our upscale beta.
And what I want to do is download both of these options.
So this is our upscale beta,
and then we have our upscale light.
And let's look at these side by side,
and you can instantly see the differences.
So beta is the newer version of Midjourney
that's more intelligently looking at the pixels
and assuming or predicting, depending on pixel to pixel,
what pixels it can essentially add
to make a more higher resolution image.
So it's a little bit of experimentation
and it's a little bit of knowing
what these specific upscales are doing.
And for this specific example,
the beta is clearly working better
to create the more professional final output.
Let's now see the difference in size.
So the upscale light is 1536 x 1536,
and the upscale beta, which is great
'cause this is the version we wanna use,
is 2048 x 2048.
So in most circumstances,
because the beta is newer,
it might change the name in the future,
but for now it's called beta.
This is gonna be the one you're gonna want to use.
Now here's the one we want to use, upscale beta.
Let's now move on to the final steps
of these three upscalers.
Great.
So now we have our variation,
which is our remastered versions,
in case we wanted to change our overall artistic look
and just change a few different parameters of our image.
And then we have our upscaled light version
that I'm not a huge fan of.
There's more distortions that got added back in
because the AI is trying to intelligently look at the image,
look at the pixels and the contrast between the pixels
and add more pixels.
Sometimes it ends up distorting versus
creating a cleaner image.
So we will stick with what we had before,
and then we had the new upscale beta of the upscaled beta.
So it's very smooth looking
and kind of a totally different artistic feel.
So you can really continue to go down the rabbit hole
of remixing, remastering, upscaling
until you find the final output you're looking for,
which isn't always gonna be five different upscales.
Sometimes it's gonna be the very first
or just the second upscale
that you're doing in this process.