Restoring Ruined Screenshots - mega tutorial

Sign up at https://nordvpn.com/macroking to get 4 extra months on a 2-year plan! ▼▼▼ CHAPTER NAVIGATION ▼▼▼ 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:25 Nord VPN 0:03:33 XKCD Restoration. https://xkcd.com/1683/ 0:16:32 XKCD panel 4, the hardest panel 0:21:37 Just redraw the dang thing 0:24:03 Using AI to redraw the dang thing (fail) 0:27:12 Fake TQ script, links to bad screenshots, and Yandex reverse image search 0:32:32 Why Nearest Neighbor? Deep dive. 0:35:57 How to best use Nearest Neighbor 0:38:50 Next few images, more Yandex 0:42:18 Making a NN upscale Photoshop action 0:43:26 The 80/20 rule 0:44:25 More Yandex 0:46:19 Smart Upscale Addon - you need it! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/smart-upscale/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smartupscale/cafgibgoaehhjoomjcndeogbcmfdbogd 0:47:16 How to fix minor jpeg compression 0:53:21 Fixing an old newspaper ad scan 0:57:18 letsenhance.io 1:01:08 https://github.com/TaranVH/LOGOS 1:01:47 Google in the 90s restoration and archive.org Restored screenshots: https://github.com/TaranVH/TaranAssets 1:13:01 "Me at the Zoo," UI and browser scaling, anti-aliasing and subpixel rendering 1:25:04 The most insane restoration I've ever done, combining all prior tricks and more 1:44:58 Recommended videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6tw-gulnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziybNY7Pxsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4 1:46:14 Questions I have for YOU!