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Review - Turning Midjourney Images Into Print-Ready Files
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by default midjourney images are too low res to be used in POD

max quality of images

generally 1024x1024
if you are generating a design with multiple objects try to design each one individual for higher pixel quality

removing backgrounds

canva
photoroom

upscaling the image

imglarger.com
upscale.media

Review - Turning Midjourney Images Into Print-Ready Files

Summary

Midjourney images are not automatically large enough for print.

To use them for print-on-demand, you usually need to:

download the chosen image
remove the background
upscale the image
upload the final PNG to Printify

Core Problem

By default, Midjourney images may be too small for high-quality printing.

Example:

square Midjourney image: about 1024px × 1024px
good enough for viewing
often not good enough for print

Important Print Quality Rule

When creating a design with multiple elements, generate each element separately if possible.

Example: If creating solar system stickers:

do not generate all planets on one sheet
generate each planet individually
upscale each planet individually
combine them later in Canva or another editor

Why

If all planets are generated on one 1024px square image, each planet only gets a small fraction of the total pixels.

That means:

lower resolution per planet
worse print quality
harder upscaling

Better:

Mars gets its own image
Jupiter gets its own image
Earth gets its own image
each image starts larger
each image upscales better

Multi-Element Design Checklist `[0/5]`

identify each separate design element
generate each element separately
download each element separately
upscale each element separately
combine final elements into one design

Downloading A Midjourney Image

Midjourney gives four image options.

Numbering:

image 1 = top left
image 2 = top right
image 3 = bottom left
image 4 = bottom right

To upscale/download one:

click U1, U2, U3, or U4
open the upscaled version
open it in browser
save the image

Editing Before Upscaling

Sometimes Midjourney images contain small mistakes.

Examples:

extra dots
unwanted marks
strange artifacts
background clutter
odd details

You can edit these before or after background removal.

Background Removal

Midjourney images usually do not have transparent backgrounds.

For print-on-demand, you often need:

PNG file
transparent background

Otherwise, the background prints as a box.

Canva Pro Background Removal

If you have Canva Pro, this is one of the easiest options.

Workflow:

upload image to Canva
select image
use Background Remover
export as PNG
select transparent background

Note: Transparent PNG export requires Canva Pro.

Free Background Removal Option

Use PhotoRoom for free background removal.

Workflow:

go to PhotoRoom
upload image
let it remove the background
download the transparent PNG

Good for:

simple objects
clean backgrounds
fast workflow

Background Removal Checklist `[0/4]`

upload image to Canva or PhotoRoom
remove background
confirm no box remains
download as transparent PNG

Upscaling

After removing the background, upscale the image.

Upscaling increases the usable print size.

Old problem: Making a small image bigger stretched the pixels and caused blur.

AI upscaling:

redraws missing detail
adds new pixels intelligently
keeps the image sharper
makes the image more suitable for print

Upscaling Tools Mentioned

AI Image Enlarger
Gigapixel
Upscale.media
Canva upscaler

AI Image Enlarger

Good results, but uses credits.

Free account:

limited free credits
usually 2x or 4x options

Paid account:

more credits
may allow 8x upscaling

Gigapixel

Higher upfront cost, but useful if upscaling many images.

Good for:

serious POD workflow
repeated upscaling
avoiding monthly credit limits

Upscale Amount

Common starting point:

4x upscale

Use 4x when:

image will be used on stickers
image will be combined with other elements
image does not need to cover a huge print area

Use 8x when:

image will be printed large
image is the main design
product has a large print area

Upscaling Checklist `[0/5]`

use transparent PNG
upload to upscaler
choose 4x or 8x
download final image
inspect for AI glitches

Watch For Upscaling Problems

AI upscalers can sometimes create:

strange artifacts
distorted edges
unwanted details
texture changes
weird facial/object changes

Always inspect the final image before uploading.

Printify Test

The tutorial compares three versions in Printify:

Version 1: Raw Midjourney Image

Problems:

low resolution
white background box
not print-ready

Version 2: Background Removed Only

Improvement:

transparent background works

Problem:

still too small / low resolution

Version 3: Background Removed + Upscaled

Best result:

transparent background
higher resolution
suitable for printing

Final Workflow `[0/7]`

generate image in Midjourney
choose best version
upscale selected version in Midjourney using U1–U4
download image
remove background
AI-upscale image
upload final PNG to Printify

Key Insight

Do not treat Midjourney output as finished art.

Treat it as raw material.

The print-ready file usually comes after:

cleanup
background removal
upscaling
testing inside Printify

Bottom Line

For print-on-demand, the correct workflow is:

Midjourney image → transparent PNG → AI upscale → Printify upload → check resolution.

Never assume the first downloaded image is ready to sell.

Transcript

00:00
Okay. In this video, we are gonna discuss,

00:04
how to,

00:05
turn your pictures in MidJourney

00:08
into

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high resolution images

00:10
suitable suitable for printing. Because by default,

00:13
they're not suitable.

00:15
But using AI,

00:17
we can make them high resolution which is great. In

00:20
the future, Midjourney

00:22
might upscale images to be big enough to be printed

00:25
as is. Currently, it does not. So here's how we

00:28
do

00:29
it. The first thing we need to discuss

00:31
is the concept

00:33
of how to generate images in the first place to

00:36
maximize print quality size.

00:38
So currently, right now, if we were to save 1

00:41
of these images,

00:43
it would save in,

00:45
a 10 24 by 10 24 pixel

00:49
square image.

00:51
Now,

00:54
let's say I wanted to create a series of stickers

00:56
to sell that were off that were showing all of

00:58
the different planets in the solar system. You know, I

01:01
wanted to sell them on Etsy.

01:03
Well, there is 1 technique I could use to, in

01:07
theory, speed up this process. So I could come and

01:10
I could imagine.

01:19
Different

01:20
planets

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in

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the solar

01:24
system. Sorry.

01:26
Sheet.

01:27
Now I'm sorry about my accent there. I know that

01:30
that word sounds very different than my New Zealand

01:33
accent.

01:35
Yeah. If you're a New Zealander listening to it, you

01:37
probably don't really hear it. But if you live anywhere

01:40
else in the world, you probably hear that my e

01:42
sounded like an I just then. That's how it sounds

01:45
in New Zealand.

01:48
Of a different oh, that's system.

01:54
From the perspective

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of,

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how they look

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in space,

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minimal

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design,

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flat

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cartoon,

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2 d animation

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style

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on a white

02:14
background.

02:17
So

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what my journey is going to attempt to create here

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is a single page.

02:23
I probably should have said the word page so that

02:25
I didn't have to pronounce

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the word sheet

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in my New Zealand accent.

02:31
It's gonna try to create multiple different pictures of planets

02:34
on a page.

02:36
You can see here already that it's starting to do

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that.

02:39
Now, people do use this

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as a way to

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create pictures which do look very similar because it's definitely

02:46
a lot easier than having to constantly, you know, picking

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like, if I wanna create multiple planets that all look

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the same,

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I'm probably gonna have to prompt it multiple times

02:56
for each of the different ones to get them looking

02:59
fairly similar even though I'll still use the same prompt

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to help minimize the amount of times I'll need to

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achieve that.

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But yeah, this is just a real quick way to

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do it, isn't it?

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They all look the same. They're all the same style.

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The problem with this though,

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people teach this as a shortcut and

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I don't think those people are thinking about the printing

03:19
quality. Maybe those people don't actually print things. I'm not

03:22
really sure. But the problem with this is that if

03:25
we were to save 1 of these, it would be

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in a 1024

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pixel by 1024

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pixel square box. And even when upscaled, these are already

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gonna be starting at small because it's just a fraction

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of that size. So I I can't I can't do

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the math in my head of how exactly small this

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would be right now but it's not many pixels at

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all.

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And so

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that is why

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if you have if you create if you are creating

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a design that has multiple elements on it now if

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you just say if you're just creating

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a single picture, like let's say you're just creating, you

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know, a picture of a corgi and that's all it

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is and it's fantastic, obviously, you're just gonna save this

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as is. But if you are creating something that's got

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multiple different elements such as multiple different

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planets,

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then you want to generate them

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individually if you can because that will mean then that

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each 1 is going to print out in a higher

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quality resolution so you can then upscale

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that image

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and then you can combine them together. So if I

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was creating, for example, a t shirt which featured different

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planets of the solar system as well, not, you know,

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a series of stickers, but instead a t shirt that

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featured different planets of the solar system, I would do

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this exact same thing. I would create each planet individually

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and I would upscale each planet individually, and then I

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would place each of those different pictures

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onto the t shirt design.

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That way, they're all upscaled into the highest resolution possible.

04:46
Okay, Sarah. I can hear you say, I have created

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my picture or pictures

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and I've got them and I wanna save them. How

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do I do that? How do I upscale them? Well,

04:56
very good question.

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So let's come and let's say what we're gonna do

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is I'm gonna pick 1 here that we might wanna

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modify because I'm gonna show you a few things. I'm

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gonna show you,

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how to download it

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and then I'm going to show you how to edit

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it because,

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a lot of the times these pictures will have,

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errors or mistakes that you want to fix.

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And so,

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and it can be often small errors to fix and

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we can edit them quite easily for free. So we

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will discuss that.

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If you don't have to edit it, you can skip

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that step.

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And,

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we will then,

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remove the background. And I'll show you 2 different ways

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that you can remove the background

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and then we will upscale it. So

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for the sake of this,

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let's say that I wanted to download this picture here,

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which is definitely gonna need some editing because I don't

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want all these little dots. Dots. These little dots are

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not what I want. I don't want this either.

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What I would do

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is I'd go, okay, this is image this is image

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1, this is image 2, this is image 3, this

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is image 4. I want image 2. So you come

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and you click U2.

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And

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now,

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if we scroll down to the bottom,

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you see that it has generated

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a large upscaled version of it. So we can come

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and we can click on it and then we can

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come and open it in our browser and then we

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can save the image.

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So I'm gonna save this image

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and then I'm gonna show you what to do next.

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So,

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chances are a lot of you watching have a Canva

06:31
Pro account. And if so, you can use that to

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remove the background of pictures from the journey.

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Now you do need a Pro account because you're gonna

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have to save this as a PNG with a transparent

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background. That is a feature which currently is only available

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for Pro accounts, and it does include people who are

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currently on the free trial for the pro account.

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So as long as you have a pro account, you

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can use Canva for this. Otherwise, I'll show you how

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to do it.

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But, if you have it, you might find Canva the

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easiest. It's very, very good. Canva's very good at removing

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backgrounds from images which are more complex. Obviously, this is

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a pretty easy 1 to remove the background for but

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you could have some images which have a lot,

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more which have lines that are a lot more,

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that require

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a much, more complex AI technology to figure out. So,

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yes. But this 1 here, pretty simple. So we're gonna

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come and click little background remover.

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Our background is now transparent just like that.

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And now, we can save the picture.

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So that's 1 way you can do it if you

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don't have a Canva Pro description. I'll show you how

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else you can do it for free.

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Photo room. Yes. Photo room is how you can do

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this, for free really easily. I've tried out a lot

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of the free background remover AI apps. This is currently

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the best 1 that I could find.

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That had the best results. So

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it's also really, really simple to use as an added

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bonus.

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You just come here, take your image,

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drop it in,

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let it load.

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And now you have a bit and have transparent background.

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Yay.

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And then you can just download it

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for free.

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I'm not even signed in to an account, by the

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way.

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So you don't even have to have an account with

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them.

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Either way, once you've got your transparent your your your

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I'm gonna draw a transparent background,

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we now need to

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scale it. So that's what we're gonna do next.

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And so now with the power of AI, we can

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upscale it using an AI image

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in larger or upscaler. So previously,

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increasing an image from being small to large

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was

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very challenging. You basically had to redraw the image from

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scratch.

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But now with AI technology,

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it's completely changed. And so the reason why is because,

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when you make an image

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and you make it small, there's only so much, there's

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only so many pixels there in the image. It's, you

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know, limited by the amount of pixels there is. And

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so if you just make the pic if you make

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the picture bigger without redrawing it,

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then you're just gonna stretch out your image and you're

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not adding additional pixels. And so it's gonna look pixelated

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because now you're stretching it across even more pixels.

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So with an AI image outscaler, what it's doing is

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when you increase the image by, say, 2 times or

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4 times or 8 times,

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the AI

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is using its smart technology to figure out how it

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should be redrawing that image to fill in those extra

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pixels,

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which is why we can now upscale images without reducing

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the quality, which used to be impossible unless you completely

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redid the picture from scratch. It's amazing technology,

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something which

09:55
my younger self would have just found absolutely

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incredible to have.

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So

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you can see here

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the power of it. It's taking this image here

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and it's upscaling it. Now, there are so many different

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AI image upscalers out there. I really like AI Image

10:12
Enlarger. This 1 has been really,

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has has created great results for me.

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If you could when it upscales an image, you know,

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just like with Medjutie, how Medjutie can create glitches with

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things, how how things look, when when you're using AI

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technology to upscale, in theory, it could also create glitches

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too. So I found this 1 to be very good

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for making the least amount of glitches possible.

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But you do have to pay

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for credits.

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So you've got 8 free credits to use. So if

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you wanna just get started, you can get started for

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free.

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With the premium account,

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you can, get 100 credits per month. And then with

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advanced, you can get 19 credits per month. You can

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get for 19 dollars, you can get 500 credits per

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month and obviously, there's a discount too for yearly subscriptions.

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But if you just want to have a, flat fee,

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then Gigapixel's

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really great. Now this 1, obviously, it's not necessarily the

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cheapest thing upfront.

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But, you know, if you calculate it out, paying this

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up here upfront for it,

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versus having to pay a monthly fee, you're very gonna

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quickly make back your money.

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But there's also so many different AI image enlargers and

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upscalers out there too. So you could take advantage of

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the free ones and then you could go to free

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ones like, you know, upscale medias and use those.

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So,

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I I have personally found better results with the paid

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ones,

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but you can get some pretty good results from here,

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especially if your images are not complex images.

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So it's up to you.

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But you definitely need to upscale your image because currently,

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if we were to upload the, our picture of Mars

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as is onto a product within Printify,

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it would not be high enough resolution for printing.

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So I'll show you how to do it with this

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1 here. But, again, you can use whichever 1 that

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you like.

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So we are gonna come and we're gonna take our

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transparent 1. Take your transparent 1 and we're gonna drop

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it in.

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And,

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now I've got paid accounts. I've got access to 8

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times. The free accounts only have access to 2 times

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and 4 times. So I'm gonna just select 4 times.

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4 times is often enough for an image especially if

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you're combining multiple images together and the images are gonna

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be reduced downsize even more.

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But 4 times is often

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about more than enough.

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And so,

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we're then gonna come and click start.

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And this can definitely take,

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a little while, especially if you're doing 8 times.

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So

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we're just gonna

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sit here for a bit

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and let it process.

12:53
My dog stopped. He has been very quiet while I've

12:56
been filming recently. He must have gone back to sleep.

13:01
He must be having another nap. He went for a

13:03
huge walk this morning.

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So

13:09
he's probably still quite tired

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from his walk.

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Still loading.

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So sorry again, by the way, about my cough.

13:23
Again, you can fast forward this if you like, but,

13:26
for The Ecomm Clubhouse,

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I really like to show things in their totality

13:32
because,

13:34
the patience of everyone here is so much better, understandably,

13:37
because you're paid to join program to get the information.

13:40
So, you are actually really looking for the information rather

13:43
than just looking to be entertained. So,

13:47
I can,

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give you the full show it to you in in-depth,

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so you can get a realistic idea

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about what's actually involved

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without me having to skip over things. So here we

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go. We've got our image

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looking fantastic.

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We're gonna come and we're going to,

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save this image. And

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we're then going to upload this upscaled image,

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onto our product.

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Alright. So I'm here on Printify.

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I've got up our Kiss Cut sticker and I've got

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up their largest 1. And I'm gonna show

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you how much of a difference it makes, the process

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that we just went through. So let's start off first

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of all with

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that picture that we saved from Midjourney and then edited

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in Photopea as is. So if we were to upload

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this picture

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as is,

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you would see number 1, the resolution

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is not good. So here we can make it bigger.

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The resolution is not good.

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And also because the background

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is not transparent,

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there is a big white box around it. Alright. That's

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not what we want. So

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come and delete this.

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If we were to upload the transparent version

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with the transparent background, there still hasn't been

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you did you'd see this time around,

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we've still got the problem that it's not being upscaled.

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So it's still tiny.

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But at least at least the background's transparent. So now

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we've got the little kiss cut,

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circle around it,

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which is the goal.

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So there we go.

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However, if we come and if we take our

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upscaled picture of Mars

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and let it load in. It's gonna take a bit

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long because it's a bigger image.

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You can see

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much higher resolution

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because it's been upscaled.

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So now

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we can print

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in high quality.

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And remember, we did this at 4 times. For bigger

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products, you may wanna do it to up to 8

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times.

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And then if we come and if we preview it,

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you will

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see, and it loads,

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that,

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it's got the transparent background

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as well.

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And so

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that means in that,

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we've been able

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to

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take a picture from the journey.

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And then we've been able to upscale it and,

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make it, ready to be printed

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on better products.

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Just let this go up like that. Beautiful.

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So

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that's how you do it.

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I hope you've enjoyed,

16:47
these videos

16:48
and I will see you on the next 1.

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