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SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION SUPER RESOLUTION By Andrew Haysom
In the latest Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) update - version 13.2 – Adobe have introduced a new feature called Super Resolution. This uses the Adobe artificial intelligence engine to quadruple the resolution of an image, that is the height and width of the image are both doubled giving four times as many megapixels. With the images I have tested this feature on it has done a remarkable job. Usually when Adobe updates the ACR program, Lightroom Classic gets the same new features, but that is not the case at the moment, but this may follow at some time in the future. Therefore, if you are a Lightroom user you will have to open your images directly in Photoshop/ ACR to take advantage of this feature (as opposed to using the Edit In Photoshop command from Lightroom). Also, the Super Resolution feature is not available when using Camera Raw as a filter from within Photoshop, only when the image file opens initially in ACR prior to passing the image to Photoshop. The Super Resolution feature will work on Raw, JPEG, HEIC or TIFF files. If you want a JPEG, HEIC or TIFF file to open in ACR, rather than opening straight into Photoshop you can change your Camera Raw Preferences to make this happen. In ACR, click the gear icon in the top right corner, then choose File Handling, then make sure that both the JPEG/ HEIC and TIFF settings are set to “Automatically open all supported …”JPEG/HEIC (see Figure 1).
[Fig 1 – Camera Raw Preferences File Handling]
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