>>1949099
>I also tried that for denoising, but it'd always destroy image quality as though it had downscaled the image & the noise wasn't reduced all that well either. Also doesn't help that installing it required downloading an additional 18GB for many features I didn't use.
That's weird, my install folder is only around 1GB and I don't remember having to download any additional model. I'm using a version 3.3.2 that I found on 1337x a while back.
And yeah, I noticed that the denoising model tends to fuck with the image because of the oversharpening attempt, but I ended up using the upscaling model instead of the denoising model. Doing a 1x upscale normalizes the noise, it doesn't remove it, but different areas inpainted at different resolutions will blend in perfectly because they will have the same noise pattern. It also slightly sharpens the image in a much more gentle way than the denoising filter. Some areas will still look a little oversharpened, but you can selectively erase those in an editor. Pic are the settings I've been using lately for the 1x upscale.
>>1949540
>the oilify filter in Gimp and than upscale
Oh so that's why they have the squiggly lines. I wonder if instead of upscaling last, the filter can be applied to a double resolution pic and then downscale it to make the linework smoother.