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name: image-enhancement description: Enhance image quality using upscaling, denoising, color correction, and AI-powered tools

Image Enhancement Skill

Improve image quality through upscaling, denoising, sharpening, and color correction.

When to Use

• Low-resolution images
• Noisy/grainy photos
• Poor lighting correction
• Professional photo editing

Core Capabilities

• AI upscaling (2x, 4x, 8x)
• Noise reduction
• Sharpening
• Color correction
• Contrast/brightness adjustment
• HDR enhancement

Tools

Copy# ImageMagick
convert input.jpg -sharpen 0x1 -enhance output.jpg

# waifu2x (AI upscaling)
waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan -i input.jpg -o output.png -s 2

# Topaz Gigapixel AI
# Real-ESRGAN
realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan -i input.jpg -o output.jpg -s 4

Python (OpenCV)

Copyimport cv2
img = cv2.imread('input.jpg')
enhanced = cv2.detailEnhance(img, sigma_s=10, sigma_r=0.15)
cv2.imwrite('output.jpg', enhanced)

Best Practices

• Start with highest quality source
• Use AI upscaling for photos
• Adjust settings iteratively
• Compare before/after
• Batch process similar images

Resources

• waifu2x: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
• Real-ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN