How do I get rid of this noisy “spiky grass” look?
Hey everyone,
I’m working on this dark forest/swamp scene, and there’s one thing that keeps bugging me.
I’m generating the image in ChatGPT and then upscaling it in Topaz. The overall mood is pretty much what I want: dark, wet, dense, a bit oppressive. But after upscaling, a lot of the ground detail, especially the grass and moss, starts to look very sharp and needle-like.
It almost feels like the same tiny grass shapes or brush strokes are being repeated all over the image. Instead of looking like natural forest floor, it turns into this busy visual noise.
The foreground and swampy areas feel especially “scratchy,” if that makes sense. There are tons of small spiky details everywhere, and they make the image harder to read.
I’m not sure if this is coming from the original generation, from the Topaz upscale, from too much sharpening/contrast, or from the AI over-rendering every tiny bit of vegetation.
Has anyone dealt with this kind of issue before?