Today, March 10, 2021, Adobe dropped it’s latest software updates via the Creative Cloud and among those updates is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called “Super Resolution.” You can mark this day down as a major shift in the photo industry. I have seen a bit of reporting out there on this...
Many Thanks for the heads up on this Michael. Fricken awesome eh! Keep up the great work.
Mike – Adobe’s actions remind me of Teddy Rosevelt’s quote, “Walk softly and carry a bug stick.” I too have been playing with this new feature and my only comment here is “Wow.”
MOST INTERESTED IN OLD FILES AND IF THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL BE USED WHEN SCANNING FILM TO DIGITAL.I look for to what it does with smart Phone images.
I would test it out yourself.
So the zoom and enhance cliche is becoming reality. So all those csi shows had it right all along.
Can’t use it with my Nef or DNg files
Make sure you have updated Photoshop to the latest version and are trying to use this feature in Adobe Camera Raw.
I too have been playing with this feature and agree it is suerb. I also tried it on a very old cropped file from an old 4MP camera and a scanned film negative. Results from both are excellent (and on my blof if you’re interested). I think it is also worth pointing out that this feature is fully functional with Fuji X-trans sensors since Adobe ran through the entire machine learning process twice – once for bayer and once for x-trans.
TOPAZ GIGAPIXEL HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR AWHILE!!!!
Thanks for the write up Michael. I was not getting the ‘Enhance’ option in camera raw, so with a little research realized I had to use a different workflow. I just figured you could export from lightroom as smart object and then go into cR from there but that doesn’t work. One must open photoshop, then choose ‘File’ then ‘open’ from the menu above.
https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/enhance.html#SupportedImageFormats
Whats your thoughts on using this if you camera somehow switched to JPEG during the middle of a ceremony and you want to recover as much as possible for post processing? Im wondering if this is something that should be done prior to editing or if I am overthinking this
Michael – This won’t convert your jpeg image file back into a raw image file. Hence, it is only for upressing your images. It is definitely a tool for use after processing.