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Stable Diffusion: How to Upscale

Scaling Up Stable Diffusion: Key Considerations
Last Updated on August 11, 2023
Stable Diffusion: How to Upscale?
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AI-based tools are helping art creators make their artwork life easier in many ways. For instance, the Stable Diffusion, which serves the same purpose as Dall-E or MidJourney, to create images through text prompts, still faces issues like Upscaling.

Unfortunately, if you are also considering using the upscale feature in Stable Diffusion to improve your artwork further, the below read can help you with it.

How to Upscale Images in Stable Diffusion

The issue with Stable Diffusion is that it has a default image resolution size of 512 × 512 pixels. This is nothing in today’s modern digital world requirements and, at the same time, poses many challenges. However, fortunately, with Stable Diffusion, you can use the below ways to upscale the images.

1

TinyWoW

There may be many online tools available to upscale your images. But most of them require an account with your contact details. Instead, you can use the TinyWoW, free, to upscale the Stable Diffusion images.

Follow the easy steps below to use it:

Step

1

Head to TinyWoW main page

Open and navigate to the TinyWoW main page.

Step

2

Select the image to upscale

“Drag” or “Upload” the image you wish to upscale.

Step

3

Start enhancement

Once it is downloaded, select “Increase” to start its enhancement process.

Step

4

Upscale the image

Once finished, click on the “Upscale” button.

Step

5

Download the image

That is all. Now download it on your computer or mobile by scanning the QR code on the screen.

2

ChaiNNer Upscaler

Step

1

Download ChaiNNer

Through the GitHub website, download the ChaiNNer and launch it after download.

Step

2

Select ‘Image File Iterator’

Click on the “Image File Iterator” from the left side.

Step

3

Select the image to upscale

Next, tap the “Select a Directory” window and select the image you wish to upscale.

Make sure to keep only one image in the folder at a time. Otherwise, ChaiNNer will also upscale any other images present in the folder.

Step

4

Select where to download

Scroll down to the desired folder where you want to download it.

Conclusion

Upscaling in Stable Diffusion can be an important requirement, as the images it creates may be outside the mark for many users. However, you can always use the above online free tools to upscale your Stable Diffusion images for the best resolution.

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