If you have Photoshop CS or CS2, you may want to save your money and
use one of the newer Photoshop features. When you go to image size, you
are presented with a Resample drop down menu. This menu defaults to
"Bicubic". If you explore the options on this drop down there are two
"new" flavors: "Bicubic Smoother" and "Bicubic Sharper".
The old standard "Bicubic" is very good at most "almost the same size"
changes. For significant enlargements try "Bicubic Smoother", it is a
real improvement. Also for significant reductions in size, try "Bicubic
Sharper" (nice for making web images). I use to be a big fan of the
"stairstep" method for enlargements. "Smoother" is better and easier
:-)
These would be far more used if they had given them better names. Who
wants "Smoother"?? It should have been named "Bicubic Enlarge". Then
everyone would have loved it!
When I said the image size dialog defaults to "Bicubic", well... mine
does. That may be a pref setting. So, if you don't see what I'm talking
about, just explore the drop down menu next to the "Resample Image"
checkbox (bottom of the dialog on a Mac).
Tom
On Feb 21, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Don Bryant wrote:
> Hi Hamish,
>
> There are two products that you may be interested in that use an spline
> interpolation algorithm for image enlargement.
>
> One is PhotoZoom Professional and the other is Qimage. Rather than
> trying to
> describe the products here are the web pages for these products:
>
> http://www.s-spline.com/ - PhotoZoom
>
> http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ - Qimage.
>
> According some "experts" spline interpolation is a superior method for
> digital enlarging. I know I've been impressed with Qimage, I've not use
> PhotoZoom.
>
> You may also wish to consider obtaining a noise reduction package,
> Noise
> Ninja and Neat Image come to mind. I use Neat Image and it is quite
> impressive.
>
> Don Bryant
>
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 21 09:37:52 2006
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