Summary

The article outlines a simple process for enhancing the resolution of DALL-E generated images using Topaz Photo AI for high-quality prints and professional use.

Abstract

The article titled "Making High-Resolution DALL-E Images; My Simple Process" discusses the challenge of enlarging AI-generated images from DALL-E, which are originally 1024x1024 pixels, to a size suitable for high-resolution printing. The author recommends using Topaz Photo AI, an AI-powered tool that can upscale images up to 800% without compromising quality. The process involves generating an image with DALL-E, downloading and using Topaz Photo AI to enhance the resolution, and finally saving the upscaled image, which can then be used in print materials or high-resolution digital formats. The author endorses a 4x upscaling factor for DALL-E images, resulting in a significant size improvement that is sufficient for printing purposes. The article also mentions the versatility of Topaz Photo AI in handling various image issues and its affordability, encouraging readers to try the process and share their results.

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The author believes that Topaz Photo AI is an essential tool for transforming DALL-E images into high-resolution prints effortlessly.
DALL-E images are considered valuable assets for various applications but are too small for high-resolution printing without further processing.
Traditional upscaling methods are deemed inadequate due to their tendency to introduce artifacts and blurring, whereas Topaz Photo AI's superresolution upscaling is praised for its quality preservation.
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Making High-Resolution DALL-E Images; My Simple Process

Topaz makes enlarging AI images easy

Images from AI generation systems like DALL-E or Midjourney are valuable asset for everything from blog posts to financial reports. If you need to quickly generate an image, DALL-E can do it for a few pennies.

The problem is that DALL-E images are small. They’re only 1024 pixels by 1024 pixels. That’s less than a megabyte, which means they’re too small to print at a high resolution.

Luckily, there’s a tool called Topaz Photo AI that makes it incredibly easy to turn your DALL-E photos into high resolution images in a few clicks. You can download a free trial here.

Here’s how I use Topaz Photo AI to make high resolution DALL-E images without any advanced photo editing.

Step 1: Make a DALL-E Image

To get started, sign up for DALL-E if you haven’t already, and then head over to the DALL-E interface.

Enter your prompt to create an image. For this example, let’s create an image for a report about a legal or financial topic. We’ll ask DALL-E for a fairly standard illustrative stock photo: a banging gavel on a blue background.

Gavel on a blue background

The result looks great. This is definitely usable visually — it’s just too small to print.

Enlarging With Topaz Photo AI

Next, head to the Topaz website and download a copy of Photo AI. You can get a free trial.

Topaz Photo AI uses a process called superresolution upscaling to enlarge images up to 800% without losing quality. Essentially, it uses AI to make your DALL-E and other low-resolution images into high-resolution ones, without the artifacts, blurring, and other issues you’d get with traditional upscaling.

Open Topaz Photo AI, and load your DALL-E image.

Photo AI will automatically analyze your image, and determine the best way to improve and upscale it.

On the right of the screen, choose Enhance Resolution.

Select your upscaling factor. I find that 4x is a good upscaling amount for DALL-E images. That’s a 400% size improvement, resulting in an image that’s over 4,000 pixels square. That’s more than enough to print.

Choose Save Image. Topaz Photo AI will work its magic, making your image 400% larger. Depending on your graphics card, this usually takes about 5–10 seconds.

Our gavel image is now large enough to include in our financial report. You can zoom into the image and see how well Topaz has preserved the quality, despite the large upscaling.

Detail view of image enlarged with Topaz Photo AI

Print or Use Your Image at High Resolution

Congratulations, you now have a high-resolution DALL-E image that you can easily print out or use in documents requiring a high image size.

It looks crisp and bright printed out on actual paper.

If you need to upscale a lot of DALL-E images, I recommend buying a copy of Topaz Photo AI. I use it all the time to increase the size of my DALL-E images, and also to upscale old photo scans, low-resolution images from old digital cameras, and more.

The software also allows you to fix common image issues, like blurring and background noise.

Try out my process, and let me know in the responses how it worked for you.

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