NiceScaler 1.13

NEW

• Added new image and video resizing features
• And multicore functionality with ability to choose how many cpu's to use
• Added the possibility to choose the output file extension

GUI

• Updated icons
• GUI minor fixes

BUGFIX & IMPROVEMENTS

• Now the app is built with the support of upx, to decrease the weight of the project
• Completely re-designed project organization (folder, files, etc)
• More than 100 bug fixes and optimizations
• Update each library and dependencies:
  • Python
  • OpenCV
  • Pyinstaller
  • and others.

NiceScaler 1.5

NEW

• NiceScaler now will preserve original video audio and will apply it to upscaled video
• output upscaled image will be saved in .png to boost video and image quality

IMPROVEMENTS / BUGFIX

• big performance improvements when using GPU on Windows 11 22H2 ~50%
• updated core libraries

NiceScaler 1.4

UI

• new GUI in line with windows 11 UI
• redesigned buttons
• new CLEAR button to clean the given image or video

IMPROVEMENTS / BUGFIX

• redesigned how the app interact with images and video when upscaling (fix the bug that sometimes when upscaling multiple times, the app reported the old upscaling job)
• the app will use image and video in .jpg instead of .png (boosting speed and space required by ~10%)
• refactored code for redability and speed improvements
• updated all libraries

NiceScaler 1.3

New feature

• GPU OpenCL backend (to use GPU horsepower to upscale)
• support for more images and video file types

Improvements

• updated Python (3.7.9 -> 3.9.10)
• bugfix in AI model creation (speed boost ~10% with all models)
• deleted EDSR model (lighter .exe 110Mb -> 70Mb)
• general code cleanup

UX

• deleted EDSR model button
• new colors for left bar
• new button to select OpenCL backend
• removed AI models info under buttons
• removed NiceScaler icon
• added Github button
• drag&drop space cleaning

NiceScaler 1.2

New

• Video upscaling (one video)
• Video dropped shows as a list of information: fps, filesize, resolution, etc.
• Support for mp4, webm, gif, mkv, flv, avi, mov videos
• New buttons to choose upscale factor (x2 & x4)

UX/UI changes

• Font changed to Calibri
• Setted default AI model to FSRCNN
• Setted default upscale factor to x2
• Changed buttons color for a better UX
• Added filesize in image description (when drop one image)

Bugfix

• Fixed error when dropping files when the filepath contains dots '.'
• General bugfix & code cleaning

NiceScaler 1.1

Batch upscaling / UI changes / and more (1.1.0)

• Upscaling of multiple photos (batch upscaling)
• More images dropped shows in a list with image counter
• Complete UI / UX overhaul (using a dark color palette)
• Stop button to stop upscaling process (for both single upscaling and multiple upscaling)
• Speed up image conversion to png
• Added Paypal button to support the project (and the app become FREE)
• Automatically remove duplicates in dropped images
• General code cleaning and bugfix