>>86482391You should always do inpainting after upscaling or it's liable to break stuff. The nice thing with the multidiffusion upscaling method is it lets you do edits to the image before you upscale it to clean up minor stuff that you'd have to inpaint later. So you can do some edits, upscale, then inpaint the remainder away. Here's an example of what I mean.
Original output:
https://files.catbox.moe/295n0w.pngMy edits before upscaling:
https://files.catbox.moe/7e51xb.pngAn example of an upscaled output:
https://files.catbox.moe/ipa2zt.png (I don't remember which one of the 30 I used)
Final version after inpainting:
https://files.catbox.moe/mmhyys.pngOnce you get used to multidiffusion it's not that much longer than hires.fix.