Comfyui- Battle of the upscalers part-1

Welcome to THE BATTLE OF THE IMAGE UPSCALERS — where we put the most popular AI upscalers head-to-head inside ComfyUI and push them through a brutal VFX-style torture test.

I tested 12 different models, threw four extremely challenging images at them (fur, 2D line art, jellyfish, and architecture), and only three champions survived.

In this video, you’ll learn:

✔ What upscaling actually is
✔ When you should upscale (and when you shouldn’t)
✔ Why over-sharpening makes images look crunchy and fake
✔ How AI upscaling works under the hood
✔ The real differences between SeedVR2, SUPIR, Flux DyPE, SRPO & more
✔ How VFX artists upscale “selectively” for realism
✔ A full demo showing pores, texture, edges — no plastic skin

🎁 FREE WORKFLOW DOWNLOAD
I’ve packaged my final Skin Detail + Upscale pipeline into a single ComfyUI workflow you can drag & drop.
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📸 Test Images Used in the Video:

• A furry dog (micro-detail torture test)
• A clean 2D illustration (line accuracy)
• A jellyfish (hallucination test)
• A cityscape (pattern stability test)

🧰 Models Tested:

SeedVR2 • SUPIR • Flux DyPE • SRPO • SDXL Upscalers • Ultimate Upscale • Detail Demon • FlashVSR • RealESRGAN • and more…

🎞️ Part 2 Coming Soon: VIDEO UPSCALING

FlashVSR • compression cleanup • denoising • artifact removal • VFX production pipeline workflow.

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