Aiarty Image Enhancer: The Topaz Gigapixel Alternative for Print on Demand (2026)

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(Note: this video’s caption track is in Arabic; this summary is written in English from that track.) Martinez says Adobe has recently acquired Topaz Labs, with the deal to be completed within a few months, and he worries about Adobe’s track record of buying a tool, keeping it running only long enough to fold its best features into its own apps, then quietly closing it — so he looked for an alternative to Topaz Gigapixel. He presents Aiarty Image Enhancer as a desktop app that works offline on your own device, with no forced subscription and without uploading your original designs to the cloud or having them used to train someone else’s AI. He demonstrates generating a design in Ideogram AI, then upscaling it with a custom size of 4500 x 5400 using the AIGC Smooth v3 model, showing a visibly sharper eye in the before-and-after, and notes batch export is possible. Beyond print-on-demand, he suggests side services: restoring old photos (he restores a 1940 photo using detail/skin-and-hair enhancement and face restoration, upscaled to 4K, and says people pay for restoring faded family photos while some Etsy shops charge up to $20), sharpening product and food photos for sellers’ social posts, and an AI video-enhancement service upscaling old videos to 4K. He stresses Topaz is still a good tool and Adobe has shut nothing down yet; he simply prefers owning his tools and keeping his files on his own machine.

Key takeaways

• He sought a Topaz Gigapixel alternative because he says Adobe acquired Topaz Labs and he fears it may eventually be absorbed and closed
• Aiarty runs offline on your own computer — designs are not uploaded to the cloud or used to train other AI, and there is no forced subscription
• In his demo, an Ideogram AI design is upscaled to 4500 x 5400 with the AIGC Smooth v3 model to become print-ready, with batch export available
• Photo restoration of old or faded family pictures is presented as a paid side service, using face restoration and detail enhancement
• The same tool can be offered as services for sharpening product/food photos and for AI video enhancement to 4K

Episode details: published July 17, 2026 · 7:26 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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