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The first photo below was a 10Mb file resized to 800 pixels on its longest side and saved as a JPEG to post.

The second photo: The original file was taken to 95Mb in PixelScale, a crop was taken and sized to 800 pixels on the longest side. then saved in JPEG for posting.

I believe this shows the power of PixelScale for anyone that is interested.

good shit chris great resizing

OK It's great!

What is pixelscale?

marcus wrote:OK It's great!

What is pixelscale?

PixelScale, and for that matter Genuine Fractals, are programs that enable you to increase the size of an image without appreciable loss of data. As I said, the 10Mb file was taken to 95Mb, which if you tried bicubic or any other interpolation you would end up with a very messy image.

sirhc55
I'm impressed. How much does pixelscale cost? Where do ya get it? How does it compare to fractel graphics?

Chris,

Great work.

Is this possibly wife no. 4 .

Goodbye,

Hi Chris,
That's pretty impressive, but how did you get a 10Mb file in the first place? Was this due to layers in PS?
Also what was the original ppi and the resulting ppi?

I notice a little loss of detail on the straight hair hanging down in the 2nd shot, but apart from that - I'm very impressed...

Another little tip (from personal experience)... Women don't like close-ups of their facial hair

I'm impressed!!

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I clicked on this thread... but I'm glad I did! Thanks Chris, great demonstration!

Matt. K wrote:sirhc55
I'm impressed. How much does pixelscale cost? Where do ya get it? How does it compare to fractel graphics?

Yep....need to know this info! Tell us the details PLEASE.
thx

Thanks for the demonstration Chris! I've never used any of those software but it's good to know they exist for those really large prints...

Link.

Chris, do you by chance want to send that image thru and I'll see if I can replicate a similar result in GF?

Jethro - thanks
Marcus - Hope I answered your question OK
Matt.K - cost is around $450.00 - not sure of the cost on Genuine Fractals
Fozzie - Natalie is a friend only who front on looks just like the actress from Legally Blonde (can’t remember her name)
Leek - 10Mb file from a Nikon D1 at 300dpi - the resulting file dpi is still 300
Glen - thanks
MCWB - glad you liked it
Marcus - PixelScale is easier to use than Genuine Fractals
Link - glad to help
Leigh - I will post up a GF for you as I have this program as well

sirhc55 wrote:Natalie is a friend only who front on looks just like the actress from Legally Blonde (can’t remember her name)

Reese Witherspoon???

leek wrote:

sirhc55 wrote:Natalie is a friend only who front on looks just like the actress from Legally Blonde (can’t remember her name)

Reese Witherspoon???

That’s the baby - thanks Leek

Here is the pic processed the same way through Genuine Fractals

Its great to know this stuff is out there for that just in case I need it type of thing, cheers

Sean PS good demo too

Chris

Excellent demo of both programs.

I have both of these tools, but have wondered at what stage I'd actually use them. ie how big a print would I need to be doing before they showed an improvement over just enlarging the image?

Stubbsy, I find it necessary for me when I want to print at say something like 20 x 24 inches and want to retain the 300dpi I get from the original NEF. I'm a GF user as I just didn't go for the Smartscale interface... I think I like my apps complex...

Hi Chris

For completeness, would you be able to post the same image using photoshops 10% incremental sizing methodology which is the principal tool available to me and I guess many other members .

Am interested to see how it compares

Ray

Jenno

The following image was taken to the same size as the image at the front of this thread. The size is 61.41 x 40.78cms. On resampling the original image (300dpi) to this size the dpi came down to 82dpi.

I then converted the image to LAB mode and highlighted the lightness channel only. I then resampled the image by 5 pixels per inch back up to 300dpi and then cropped. Resized crop to 800 pixels on the longest edge and saved in JPEG level 8 for posting to PixSpot.

There is a breakup in the nose and chin area not seen in the GF or PixelScale samples - IMO I would not attempt to bring an image up to this level (read size) by resampling.

Chris I have only just found this. Very impressive he say as he scoots off to do a google on pixelscale

Chris this has proven to be a very useful thread, thank you

Hi Chris,

Ive done some homework but have come up with a blank searching for PixelScale (as a program). Is it a PS plug in or a stand alone program?

Do you know of a website for the product or a site containing info about it?

It was'nt a total waste of time, got to learn a bit about astronomy during my google searches!

thanks

Marcus

Sorry Marcus I should have said that it comes from the Extensis stable of products and is actually called pxl SmartScale

Try this url:

http://www.extensis.com/en/products/product_family.jsp?locale=en_US&id=prod120009

Awesome thats what I was after............it looks very bloody impressive.

thx again Chris!

Hi Chris,

The PS example certainly looks pretty ordinary compared to the images produced by the other packages...something I wasnt expecting.

Lot wiser now..thanks

Ray