What You’ll Create

Enhance your images with AI-powered sharpening and contrast adjustments. Good for photographers, designers, and content creators who want to improve visual quality quickly.

Time to complete: 3 minutes
Difficulty: Beginner


Overview

A simple image enhancement pipeline using sharpening for crisp details and auto-contrast for better exposure balance.

The Pipeline:

  1. Image Input - Your photo or artwork
  2. Sharpen - Enhance edges and fine details
  3. Auto Contrast - Optimize brightness and contrast
  4. Image Output - Your enhanced result

The Enhancement Process

Input: Load any image - portraits, landscapes, product photos, digital art.

Sharpen: Applies intelligent sharpening to make details crisp. Good for:

  • Product photography
  • Portraits
  • Landscape photos
  • Screenshots

Auto Contrast: Automatically adjusts contrast for better visual impact. Good for:

  • Underexposed photos
  • Backlit images
  • Flat-looking images

Output: Your enhanced image, ready to save or share.


Advanced Options

For more enhancement capabilities, explore these nodes:

  • Replicate.Image.Process - More image processing options
  • Replicate.Image.Upscale - AI upscaling for quality improvements
  • Nodetool.Image.Transform - Additional color and brightness controls

Tags

image, start, photography, enhancement

Workflow Diagram

graph TD enhanced_97877["enhanced"] image_97879["image"] sharpen_9d8850["Sharpen"] autocontrast_4c9c6b["AutoContrast"] image_97879 --> sharpen_9d8850 sharpen_9d8850 --> autocontrast_4c9c6b autocontrast_4c9c6b --> enhanced_97877

How to Use

  1. Open NodeTool and find “Image Enhance” in Templates
  2. Load your image:
    • Click the Image Input node
    • Upload a photo (JPG, PNG, WebP)
  3. Adjust settings (optional):
    • Click Sharpen node to control sharpness intensity
    • Auto Contrast works automatically
  4. Press Ctrl/⌘ + Enter or click Run
  5. View the enhanced result
  6. Save or export the image

Tips:

  • Try different sharpness levels - more isn’t always better
  • Works well with batches - process multiple images
  • Chain with other workflows for more effects

Next Steps

Related workflows:

Browse all workflows for more examples.