ReSR.Scaler

More often than not, when enlarging an old photo you notice that the image will appear pixelated, blurry and even worse than the original. This is because enlarging is not the right action for tinkering with this type of media, as it cannot increase the resolution of the image to make it appear sharper and more detailed.

If you want quality out of old content, be it pictures or videos, then you should consider upscaling. ReSR.Scaler is a user-friendly tool for upscaling video and pictures suitable for any GPU.

The program doesn’t require installation, so you can simply decompress the archive and launch the tool. The interface consists of a single window interface and you can get started by adding the files you want to process via a quick drag and drop.

After you add your image/video or a list with media files, you can use the left menu to specify your preferred AI model, AI backend, resize before upscaling and GPU Vram / PC RAM. The application does automatic image tiling and merging to avoid GPU VRAM limitation.

The types of files supported are listed within the window where you add the files and do not include any RAW formats. The formats supported for images include JPG, WEBP, BMP, TIF and PNG, whereas the videos are MP4, WEBM, FLV, AVI, MOV, 3GP, GIF and QT. There is a possibility that more will be added in the future.

On a side note, the developer mentions a few bugs of the tool that hopefully will get fixed in the near future. For now, you cannot use drag and drop if you launch the tool as Administrator and filenames with non-latin symbols are not supported.

In the eventuality that you are organizing your old content or perhaps came across low quality content that you could use in your current project, then perhaps you can consider giving ReSR.Scaler a try.