Image Upscaler Release Notes – 27.5.17.0

New features

  • 1-Click Start/Cancel for Multiple Images
    You can now start or cancel upscaling with a single click for all selected images. This streamlined feature saves time and gives you greater control over batch processing.
1-click to start all images
1-click to start all images
  • New Local AI Model – Iris
    Meet Iris, our latest model designed to enhance fine contrast details like eyes, fur, hair, and feathers. Perfect for portraits and close-ups, Iris brings out the delicate textures in your images.
Meet our new model IRIS

Note: The “Iris” model is paid-only. It is available to yearly plan subscribers or lifetime owners from 2025 onwards. 2024 lifetime users need to purchase the 2025 version or a subscription to access it.

  • Seamless Editing in PhotoSnap
    After upscaling with Nero AI Image Upscaler, you can now fine-tune your images directly in PhotoSnap. Adjust colors, apply filters, retouch faces, add clip art, text, and more—without missing a beat.
Seamless Editing in PhotoSnap

Improvements

  • You can now enable face enhancement with any online upscaling model, thanks to Nero Cloud GPU. Enjoy sharper, more detailed facial features across all your images.
Face Enhancement with All online Models
  • You can now set a targeted scaling ratio for online upscaling models, giving you more control over the final image size and quality.
Custom Scaling Ratios for Online Upscaling

Bugfixes

  • We’ve fixed an issue where the app failed to load the local upscaling engine on certain devices.

Nero Start release notes – 27.5.51.0

This update includes:

✨What’s New

  • Now you can remove the product that you don’t want anymore from the list for a cleaner view.

🛠️Improvements:

  • 🐞Bug Fixes: We resolved some minor issues to enhance app stability and performance.
  • 📢User Feedback: Addressed the suggestions and usability tweaks that have received the most feedback in recent months.

Image Upscaler Release Notes – 27.5.9.0

New features

  • Now you can hide the model tips on the cursor hovering via turning on the Hide-model-guidance Option:

By default, it is OFF which means that a model tip will show up when the cursor is hovering on a model as below screenshot:

The model tip on cursor hovering in the Image Upscaler

  • A new entry for Activation code under Help Menu which will open the Nero Start app to redeem the product.

how to activate Image Upscaler with activation code

For more infomation, please refer to Redeem Activation Code

Nero AI Video Upscaler Release Notes – 27.0.1.7 & 27.5.2.12

New Feature

Face enhancement

Add a new model for enhance the detail of human faces in the video.

Bugfixes

  • Recognize DRM protected video correctly.
  • Fixed the issue of video export stopping midway.
  • Added countdown for shutting down and hibernate the computer after exporting a video.