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Spent $30 on a monthly AI photo enhancer and my old fence pics came out looking like oil paintings
I install fences for a living and wanted to clean up some job site photos from a cedar privacy build in Tacoma last fall, so I signed up for a popular AI upscaler at $30 a month. It turned every wood grain detail into this smeared, painted mush and somehow added leaves that were never in the shot. Cancelled after 11 days and just used the free trial of a different tool, which handled the same 40 photos fine. Has anyone found an enhancer that actually keeps real texture instead of hallucinating new stuff?
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derek_bell16d ago
That smearing thing happens because most of these tools are trained on portraits and landscapes, not close up wood grain, so they just guess at what should be there. Your best bet is a tool with a slider for "detail" or "sharpen only" mode that skips the generative step entirely. Upscayl is free and has a setting called "upscale only" that keeps real texture instead of cooking up fake leaves.
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