Enhance a Landscape Without Inventing the Trees

Horizons and branches are the test

A horizon should stay one line. If unblur or 2× doubles it into a bright ridge and a dark ridge, you have a halo, and the file is worse. Branches against sky are the same test at a smaller scale. A few twigs that become a thicket were not in the exposure. Keep the softer frame. Weather you can remember is more important than a texture the model prefers.

Skies posterize when denoise goes too far. A gradient should keep a little drift. A single blue with a contour along the ridge is the failure. One denoise, then a look at the sky and at a rock edge. If you can only save one, keep the rock and accept a slightly busier sky. High-ISO mountain shots are the night problem in daylight: colored speckle, then the landscape.

Haze is sometimes the subject. A valley with aerial perspective should not be ‘clarified’ into a nearby hill. If the far ridge becomes as crisp as the foreground, the model ignored the air. Reject it. This tool does not have a dehaze amount. The modes are the same as everywhere else, and the decision is still yours.

Size for a print, not for a fantasy

A 300 ppi 8×10 wants about 3,000 px and fits in the free download. A 4K frame is about 3,840 and does not. An A2 or a poster is Pro or Studio. Do the division on the increase-size page before you pick 4×. A 2× of a careful 24-megapixel export is often unnecessary. If the file is already large, fix noise or a soft corner and stop.

Wide lenses are soft in the corners. A little softness there is the lens. A halo in the corner is the repair. Do not 8× a corner to punish it. 8× is Studio, four credits, and it invents the most foliage. Water and grass are where that invention shows up as a repeating texture. Look for the repeat at 100 percent.

JPEG skies block. If the squares are the defect, read the artifact page before you denoise the weather. A second save of a landscape JPEG at low quality is how a smooth dusk becomes tiles. Bring the earliest export.

Delivery

Commercial use is allowed on every plan when you have the rights, including a print you will sell. Free pages show ads. The preview is unmarked. Failures return the credit. A successful thicket you later notice does not. Subscriptions cancel anytime and are not refunded.

Colorize does not belong on a color landscape. A black-and-white large-format scan is the colorize page, after dust is gone, and the dyes are a guess you should be especially suspicious of on a place you cannot remember. Faces are rare here. If a person is in the frame and collapsed, the portrait page applies, and the landscape should not go through face restore.

We delete the upload and the result after 24 hours. A print lab needs the file from you. The API can produce the same file during that day, at the plan’s rate and credits. Guest uploads stop at 2,000 px on the long edge, so a full camera file needs a smaller export or a paid plan’s input cap.

A worked frame

A hazy overlook is 3000 px wide, which already matches an 8×10 at 300 ppi and sits inside the free download. Do not upscale it. The question is whether the sensor was noisy and whether anyone is tempted to ‘clarify’ the valley. Denoise only if the sky has colored speckle. The far ridge should stay softer than the foreground rock. If a single pass makes them equally crisp, the air was the subject and you removed it. A horizon that gains a bright rim is a halo, same as on the sharpen page, and it is a rejection. Grass that starts to repeat at 100 percent is generated texture. Keep the hazy file. It will print honestly at the size you already have. 4× would make 12000 px on the long edge only if the input were allowed and the mode were selected, and Studio's input cap is 8192 anyway. You do not have a size problem. You have a taste problem, and the model should lose that argument. Download the original or the quiet denoise the same day. The valley is not stored here. A poster at 150 ppi can be planned from this file without a scale change. Measure it on the poster page before you assume you are short. A 150 ppi poster and a 300 ppi print in the hand are different counts.