What is it?
Magic Enhance is a tool designed to refine images by sharpening details, enriching colors, and optimizing lighting to boost visual quality. It provides options for varying degrees of creative reinterpretation, allowing users to maintain the image's originality or to significantly alter its appearance and mood.
Using Magic Enhance
Tap the 'Enhance' button under the Tools section on the starryai app's main screen.
Choose an image from your starryai gallery or upload one from your device.
Adjust the creativity slider to set the transformation level; the default setting of 5 offers a balanced enhancement.
Enter an optional prompt for specific alterations or effects you want the AI to apply during enhancement.
Click 'Enhance' to begin processing your image.
Download your enhanced image straight from the interface, or access previous ones through 'View Enhance History'. (Note that images are stored for 7 days only.)
Enhancement effects explained
General enhancement effect:
Sharpness and Clarity: The enhanced image is sharper, with clearer lines, details, and textures.
Color Depth and Saturation: The colors in the enhanced image are more vibrant and have more depth.
Lighting and Contrast: The enhanced image has better lighting, with a warmer tone and more balanced contrast, giving it a more realistic and three-dimensional feel.
Detailing in Shadows and Highlights: The shadows and highlights are more pronounced and detailed in the enhanced image, contributing to the overall aesthetic and realism.
Noise Reduction: The enhanced image has less noise and a smoother appearance with more uniform coloration.
Edge Definition: Edges in the enhanced image are more precisely defined, lacking the slight blur present in the original.
Creativity level
Refers to the degree of transformation and preservation of the original image’s essence.
Low values = High preservation with low transformation.
High values = Low preservation with high transformation.
Low creativity level (1-3):
Low creativity enhances and polishes without altering the essence of the original.
At a low level of creativity, the AI makes minimal alterations, primarily enhancing details, sharpening images, and subtly enriching colors. The original composition and theme remain largely intact, with improvements to clarity and possibly some slight adjustments to lighting and details that serve to complement the existing elements rather than change them. Enhancement at low creativity level polishes and refines the original without significant changes to the content or the mood of the scene.
Medium creativity level (4-6):
Medium creativity builds upon the original, introducing new interpretations while keeping the original recognizable.
A medium level introduces moderate alterations to structure and environment, balancing between the original design and new imaginative elements. The changes are more noticeable than at a low level, including a reworking of some features and an introduction of new details that harmonize with the original concept, yet they do not completely transform it. Enhancement at medium level adapts and evolves the original image, enhancing and adding to it in a way that respects the initial vision while providing a fresh creative interpretation.
High creativity level (7-10):
High creativity overhauls the original, creating a highly imaginative and distinct piece that may only faintly resemble the starting image.
At a high creativity level, transformation reimagines the scene significantly, potentially altering structures, introducing new thematic elements, and dramatically changing the color palette and mood. The end result may share conceptual roots with the original but presents a distinctly different interpretation, often with an entirely new narrative or aesthetic. A high level creativity level reimagines the original image, crafting a new and distinct piece that departs substantially from the initial image in structure, style, theme, and atmosphere.
Reimagining prompt:
The optional input prompt directs the AI to incorporate specific thematic or stylistic elements into the image enhancement process, guiding the transformation in a targeted way. It allows the user to suggest particular changes or effects, which the AI then interprets and applies according to the selected creativity level, resulting in a customized enhancement that aligns with the user's vision.
EXAMPLES WITHOUT A PROMPT:
Example 1: House
Original Image: A vibrantly colored house with a soft, dreamy sky and lighting, set in a typical suburban setting.
Enhancement Effect: The changes shift from subtle adjustments that maintain the original structure to significant transformations that refine and elaborate on the house's details, integrate it more naturally with its environment, and ultimately reimagine it in a far more sophisticated and detailed setting.
Creativity level 1:
Lighting Adjustment: The lighting appears to be slightly more natural, reducing the surreal quality of the original.
Color Saturation: The colors are a touch more subdued, moving towards a realistic twilight.
Detail Sharpness: There's a minor enhancement in the sharpness of the house's features, like the windows and the porch.
Creativity level 5:
Architectural Detailing: The house's architecture remains recognizable, but with enhanced detailing that gives a clearer definition to its structure.
Environmental Integration: The surrounding environment, including the trees and the lawn, is more detailed, suggesting a more cohesive and natural setting.
Color Correction: The colors are balanced to appear more true-to-life, particularly in the trees and the house's paint.
Creativity level 10:
Extensive Architectural Transformation: The structure of the house has been significantly altered, reflecting a more ornate and elaborate architectural style.
Landscape and Flora Enhancement: The surrounding flora is lush and more diverse, and the landscaping is detailed, adding to the scene's overall richness.
Advanced Lighting and Texture: The image has a high-definition quality with advanced lighting effects, providing a sense of depth and realism that surpasses the original.
Example 2: Castle
Original Image: The input image features a fantastical castle with a magical ambiance, highlighted by vibrant colors and a dreamlike quality.
Enhancement Effect: The image transition from a fantasy realm to a more realistic world, with significant structural changes to the castle, alterations in the environment, and shifts in color and lighting that move from a magical to a realistic depiction.
Creativity level 1:
Color Saturation: The colors are slightly more muted compared to the original, giving a less mystical and more realistic look.
Detail Enhancement: Minor details like the castle's spires and windows are a bit sharper, though the changes are subtle.
Atmospheric Consistency: The fantastical atmosphere is largely maintained, with only slight adjustments to the brightness and shadows.
Creativity level 5:
Structural Adjustments: The castle architecture appears more traditional and less otherworldly, with changes to the spires and walls that suggest a more realistic construction.
Environmental Changes: The surrounding landscape transitions from the ethereal to a more earth-like environment with realistic mountains and waterfalls.
Lighting and Shadows: The image has a warmer, more natural lighting, creating a more inviting and less surreal atmosphere.
Creativity level 10:
Complete Reimagining: The castle is now entirely different in architecture, more grounded in realism and traditional design, losing much of the fantastical elements.
Vivid Environment: The surrounding environment is now fully realistic, with clear blue water, distinct rock textures, and natural vegetation.
Enhanced Realism: The overall image takes on a high-fidelity, almost photo-realistic quality, with crisp details and a dynamic range of colors that mimic a real-world scene.
EXAMPLES WITH A PROMPT:
Example 1: House
Original Image: The starting image is of a well-kept, vibrant house with no signs of abandonment or overgrowth.
Prompt: “Abandoned house overgrown with flowers”
Enhancement Effect: The enhancement progressively transforms the house from its original well-kept state to various stages of an abandoned and overgrown aesthetic, culminating in a rich depiction of decay.
Creativity level 1:
Initial Stages of Overgrowth: There are subtle indications of wild growth around the edges of the house, hinting at the onset of abandonment.
Muted Colors: The bright colors are toned down slightly, giving the house a less cared-for appearance.
Diminished Maintenance: There's a hint of wear on the house, such as less vibrant painting, that suggests neglect.
Creativity level 5:
Enhanced Overgrowth: Flowers and plants begin to encroach more significantly on the house, climbing over the porch and walls.
Aged Appearance: The house starts to look aged, with more pronounced signs of wear and weathering.
Intensified Abandonment Atmosphere: The overall ambiance shifts to a more forlorn and deserted mood, with the lighting and saturation adjusted to reflect the prompt.
Creativity level 10:
Complete Transformation into Abandonment: The house is fully transformed into an abandoned state, with dense floral and plant overgrowth enveloping the structure.
Structural Deterioration: The house shows clear signs of decay, such as broken windows and a dilapidated roof, consistent with long-term neglect.
Vivid Floral Infusion: The overgrowth is not just prominent but also vibrant, with an array of flowers that are lush and colorful, contrasting the house's decay.
Example 2: Castle
Original Image: A fantastical castle with a magical ambiance, perched atop a cliff with waterfalls and an otherworldly sky.
New Prompt: “Modern beach house”
Enhancement Effect: The application of the prompt leads to progressively more significant changes from the original fantastical castle. The final high creativity transformation results in a sophisticated modern structure that fully embodies the contemporary and luxurious essence of a beachfront property.
Creativity level 1:
Subtle Structural Modernization: Minor adjustments to the castle's architecture, perhaps streamlining some elements to hint at modern design.
Color Shift: A potential shift in the color palette to cooler, more contemporary hues that could be associated with modern architecture.
Slight Context Change: Initial changes in the environment to include elements typical of a beach setting, like sand or more prominent water features.
Creativity level 5:
Architectural Transformation: More pronounced architectural changes to reflect modern design principles, such as cleaner lines and large windows.
Environmental Adaptation: Enhanced integration of the castle with beach elements, such as palm trees or a beachfront.
Modern Materials and Textures: Introduction of materials like glass or steel that are indicative of modern construction, replacing traditional castle stonework.
Creativity level 10:
Complete Reconceptualization: The castle is entirely transformed into a luxurious modern beach house, likely with an open, airy design.
Landscape Overhaul: The surrounding landscape would be fully reimagined to align with a beach setting, including a sandy shore, tropical vegetation, and a tranquil sea.
High-Definition Realism: The image would display a photo-realistic depiction of a modern beach house, with vivid textures, reflective surfaces, and advanced lighting for a sunny, seaside ambiance.
