If you want to try out Gigapixel AI and see how it compares for yourself, they do offer a free trial that you can download. Gigapixel AI is going to be a separate purchase, but it’s a one-time deal – assuming you’re happy to not upgrade to newer versions in the future. More people will already have a CC subscription with Photoshop already installed on their system and they basically get the Super Resolution for free as part of the monthly subscription they’d be paying anyway.

When it comes to cost, the immediate advantage is going to go to Adobe. This is where Photoshop’s speed definitely offers huge performance gains over Gigapixel AI – especially for wedding and event photographers who might potentially have quite a lot of images to upscale. And if you’re resizing portraits, there really isn’t all that much difference between the images resized by the two different applications from the example shown in Peter’s video. Photoshop is clearly ahead when it comes to speed, though, producing results in a matter of seconds rather than minutes. Of course, it offers a lot of options you can tweak to get the best results and if you want the best results, what’s a few minutes of waiting time? It’s an interesting comparison, which also takes the cost of the two into account (perpetual license vs subscription) and while Peter does believe that Gigapixel AI is the overall winner, especially when it comes to things like architecture, cityscapes and landscapes, it is much slower than the Adobe offering.

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