[grumbel]

As other have mentioned, this models just puts emphasis on pixels and compression artifacts, so it's of not much use for improving old or low quality images.

I tried doing some pixelart->HD conversion with Gemini2.0Flash instead and the results look quite promising:

* https://imgur.com/a/t9F94F1

The images are however all over the place, as it doesn't seem to stick very close to the prompt. Trying to fine tune the image with further chatting often leads to overexposed looking pictures.

All the results are done with prompts along the lines of "here is a pixelart image convert it into a photo" or some variation there of. No img2img, LoRA or anything here, all plain Gemini chat.