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Title: Still experimenting with upscaling and color-grading
Post by: Martin Beswick on April 07, 2024, 02:53:59 AM

 Co-worker at my day job: "How did you learn about photoshop and upscaling photos?"

Me: "Well I just kind of figured it out myself by playing around in my free-time and experimenting with a few different apps"

Co-worker: "Huh, so when you're at home you're still working on media from work?"

Me: "Nah, I just find stuff on the internet or on my hard drive that I don't mind looking at for a few hours..."

Co-worker: "What kind of stuff?"

Me: (blinking) "Um ...

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(process: first pass on my iPhone via Photoleap, further tweaking with Photoshop and/or Lightroom.)

I'm still experimenting with upscaling video via Topaz as well, but more and more adult websites aren't allowing public uploads of sexy clips anymore so I haven't been able to share it as much. But you can still find some old school photos updated via new school technology on Deviantart from me and others ... 

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Title: Re: Still experimenting with upscaling and color-grading
Post by: LoveWomenFighting on April 07, 2024, 10:27:52 AM

Great work, what's your deviantart page address?

Title: Re: Still experimenting with upscaling and color-grading
Post by: Hammer48 on April 07, 2024, 06:19:32 PM

Martin- Thanks for your ongoing efforts! I follow you on DevArt and always look forward to your newest content.

Title: Re: Still experimenting with upscaling and color-grading
Post by: Martin Beswick on April 07, 2024, 09:33:23 PM

Quote from: LoveWomenFighting on April 07, 2024, 10:27:52 AM

Great work, what's your deviantart page address?

Thanks! It's https://www.deviantart.com/martinbeswick  (https://www.deviantart.com/martinbeswick)

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Title: Re: Still experimenting with upscaling and color-grading
Post by: psy999999 on April 08, 2024, 04:38:31 PM

I appreciate your sharing your experiences improving old low quality videos.  I have a ton that I would like to improve but “trial and error” is a slow process