Credits
Standing on good work.
PixelForge automates outstanding open-source tools, and this site shows its results on freely licensed images. Thank you to everyone below.
In the app
PixelForge itself is free software under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later; its source code is public. It runs these components, whose notices are shown on the license screen of every installer.
| Component | Used for | License |
|---|---|---|
| upscayl-ncnn | AI upscaling engine (Vulkan / NCNN) | AGPL-3.0 |
| upscayl-custom-models | The seven AI models | MIT |
| caesium-clt | Image compression | GPL-3.0 |
| Electron | Desktop application framework | MIT |
| electron-store | Settings storage | MIT |
| extract-zip | Unpacking the engine tools | BSD-2-Clause |
Images on this site
Every before-and-after on this site was made by PixelForge from these images, each public domain or CC0 on Wikimedia Commons. The “original” is the image reduced to a quarter of its size; the result is PixelForge’s output from that, unedited.
| Image | Author | License |
|---|---|---|
| Snowy owl | Ted Moravec | CC0 |
| Young red fox | USFWSAlaska | Public domain |
| The Great Wave, Hokusai | After Katsushika Hokusai | Public domain |
| Mountain lake | Bonnie Moreland | CC0 |
| Stingless bee | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA | Public domain |
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This website
| Work | Used for | License |
|---|---|---|
| Plus Jakarta Sans | Typeface | OFL-1.1 |
| Instrument Serif | Typeface | OFL-1.1 |
| Geist Mono | Typeface | OFL-1.1 |
| Lucide | Icons | ISC |
| Astro | Site framework | MIT |