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PSA: Fal's new "pixel art editing model" is literally just downscaling and bad quant

I actually cannot believe a company of Fal's scale calls this "image2pixel".

https://preview.redd.it/eoc8u80g1avf1.png?width=588&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f2ffc61ac54f6ca542b02d19bde2a930e46b974

https://preview.redd.it/r35cn8hl1avf1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f08aec5aa6ae5dd92676a8bdc8609750cf170d4d

https://preview.redd.it/gwz7c6pm1avf1.png?width=2045&format=png&auto=webp&s=9aae6aa4f202b156893da51a82a6950648d3e5d2


If you look at the advanced settings, its *actually* just downscaling.

https://preview.redd.it/xobv2dpp1avf1.png?width=1311&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4cfcb20faddfcc578d9ac77cefb532d095258f1

And not even good downscaling or color quant, using something like https://github.com/KohakuBlueleaf/PixelOE is MILES better.

And charging $0.00017 per second for something you can do CLIENT SIDE is even more insane. Sure its dirt cheap but they somehow made a downscaling operation take **1.87 seconds**. For reference you can do that in client in milliseconds.

For the hell of it I passed the same image through my own actual pixel art model and got this:

https://preview.redd.it/082rn2ab2avf1.png?width=1664&format=png&auto=webp&s=deee40214dad0b59045328a531fad124ff3521e1

And that model isn't even trained to do this kind of thing. It's just boring image to image.

https://redd.it/1o7b4dz
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7 viewsOct 15 at 18:40

PSA: Fal's new "pixel art editing model" is literally just downscaling and bad quant

I actually cannot believe a company of Fal's scale calls this "image2pixel".

https://preview.redd.it/eoc8u80g1avf1.png?width=588&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f2ffc61ac54f6ca542b02d19bde2a930e46b974

https://preview.redd.it/r35cn8hl1avf1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f08aec5aa6ae5dd92676a8bdc8609750cf170d4d

https://preview.redd.it/gwz7c6pm1avf1.png?width=2045&format=png&auto=webp&s=9aae6aa4f202b156893da51a82a6950648d3e5d2


If you look at the advanced settings, its *actually* just downscaling.

https://preview.redd.it/xobv2dpp1avf1.png?width=1311&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4cfcb20faddfcc578d9ac77cefb532d095258f1

And not even good downscaling or color quant, using something like https://github.com/KohakuBlueleaf/PixelOE is MILES better.

And charging $0.00017 per second for something you can do CLIENT SIDE is even more insane. Sure its dirt cheap but they somehow made a downscaling operation take **1.87 seconds**. For reference you can do that in client in milliseconds.

For the hell of it I passed the same image through my own actual pixel art model and got this:

https://preview.redd.it/082rn2ab2avf1.png?width=1664&format=png&auto=webp&s=deee40214dad0b59045328a531fad124ff3521e1

And that model isn't even trained to do this kind of thing. It's just boring image to image.

https://redd.it/1o7b4dz
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