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Follow-up to my last post: 4× AI upscale from 1536×1024 to 6144×4096 — detail comparison

In my previous post, someone asked whether HAN was actually an upscaler or mainly a filter/enhancer.

That was a fair question, so I made a clearer comparison.

For this test:

Original: 1536 × 1024
Scale: 4×
Output: 6144 × 4096

The image shows the original and processed result side by side, along with a magnified crop of the same area.

One of my main goals with HAN is to improve the existing structure and texture of the image without aggressively inventing new visual details.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who regularly use AI upscalers:

Does the 4× result look natural to you, or do you see any areas that still look overprocessed?

I’ve been working on a Windows app called HAN PixEnhancer, mainly because I kept running into the same problem with AI-generated images: they often look great at first glance, but once you zoom in or use them in a real design workflow, the details, edges and textures can start to fall apart.

I built HAN as a finishing tool for those images — to improve detail, clarity and overall quality without making the workflow complicated.

This video shows a few different images processed directly in the app.

It supports upscaling up to 8×, before/after comparison, multiple color profiles, local processing, and also includes a Photoshop plugin.

There’s a free trial if you’d like to test it with your own images.

**Microsoft Store:**

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P8SC34VVLDL

I’m the developer, so I’d genuinely be interested in feedback on the image results.