According to a blog post from Windows yesterday, the Microsoft Photos app is now being updated with a new feature called Supersolution that can enlarge and enhance the quality of low-resolution images using artificial intelligence.
With Supersolution, you can increase the image resolution by up to eight times its original size. It’s a great way to clean up old photos from old digital cameras and improve images for creative or editing purposes. It’s one of the most exciting features planned as part of Microsoft’s Windows 11 AI roadmap.
Since Supersolution uses artificial intelligence technology, this feature is only available for Copilot+ computers powered by Snapdragon processors. (Copilot+ computers are next-gen computers powered by AI with a special component called an NPU, which handles all AI processing tasks and frees up CPU and GPU for other uses.) It’s unclear whether Supersolution will eventually come to computers that do not support +Copilot in the future. But most likely not.
Supersolution is currently only available to Windows Insider users on Windows 11 operating system across all Insider channels. There is no information yet on when it will arrive for the stable release of Windows 11.
This update for Microsoft Photos also brings OCR support (the ability to copy text from an image to your clipboard) to both Windows 10 and 11, usability improvements for the Zoom feature, and opening images with a single click from File Explorer.
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This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and has been translated and localized from Swedish.
