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.
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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.
Chris
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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. Chris
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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  Last edited by leek on Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Yep....need to know this info! Tell us the details PLEASE. thx I know nutzinc
Chris, do you by chance want to send that image thru and I'll see if I can replicate a similar result in GF?
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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 Chris
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Reese Witherspoon??? Cheers, John
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That’s the baby - thanks Leek Here is the pic processed the same way through Genuine Fractals  Chris
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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? Peter
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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...
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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
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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
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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 I know nutzinc
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 Chris
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