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This tutorial demonstrates image upscaling in Video2X 6.4.0, which the speaker describes as a video upscaler that also handles still images. The open source project's download link appears in the description. The walkthrough loads a low-resolution web screenshot, starts processing, and compares the output with the original. In the first example, the speaker reports file sizes of 584 KB and 13.2 MB.
For a second screenshot, the speaker leaves the settings at their defaults and turns off Wi-Fi before processing to demonstrate offline use. The resulting image looks sharper to the speaker, but also has an artificial, anime-like appearance. That example shows why an upscale may need further editing rather than serving as a finished photo.
The Photoshop demonstration places the original screenshot over the upscaled image, resizes and aligns it, then adjusts opacity and layer blending before exporting a PNG. The speaker prefers this blended result for its skin texture and sunglasses detail. Photopea is mentioned as another editor, but the demonstration uses Photoshop.
The closing section points viewers to Video2X on GitHub and advises reading its hardware requirements before installation. The speaker avoids video processing on this system because of its limited GPU capability and concern that it could crash the process. The examples in this guide focus on still images.
