Enhance & Expand Telegram Images to 3:2 with CodeFormer & LightX AI

Last edited 58 days ago

🚀 Automatically enhance and expand Telegram images with AI

This n8n workflow turns your Telegram bot into a powerful AI photo enhancer!
Whether users send a photo or a link, it processes the image by:

  1. 📥 Receiving the input (photo or link)
  2. 🧠 Upscaling quality using Replicate's CodeFormer
  3. 📐 Analyzing image dimensions and calculating paddings to fit the 3:2 ratio
  4. 🖼️ Expanding the image contextually with LightX AI
  5. ☁️ Uploading the result to S3
  6. 🔗 Sending back a public URL to the user in Telegram

👥 Who is it for?

  • Telegram bot creators
  • Content creators & photographers
  • SMM pros looking to quickly polish user images
  • AI enthusiasts who want plug-and-play image workflows

🛠️ Setup Requirements

  • A Telegram bot (via @BotFather)
  • AWS S3 Bucket (public)
  • Replicate API key
  • LightX API key

🔧 How to customize

  • Add custom prompts or ratio in JavaScript node
  • Connect to other AI tools for filters or style transfer
  • Switch storage destination (e.g. Google Drive or Dropbox)

💡 Tips

  • Works great in photo-related communities
  • Can be used for virtual try-ons, image recovery or thumbnail generation

🌍 Languages

The main sticky note can be localized — feel free to swap it for your audience!


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