Re: Looking for HQ scans/low price

["Ron Carlson" <carlson@olypen.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Gary, by 16x original I assume you are referring to file size, ie; a 3 MB
file becomes a 48MB file and so on. I don't need that kind of multiple but
I'll have to go back and see what I do need. I do know that when I tried
bicubic in PS the result was not even close to what I could accept. I
haven't tried Jerry's latest tip to fix the sky pixilation but I will when I
revisit that image. I  think the $160 version of GF is all that I would need
since I'm only working with RGB. Thanks for you input.
Regards, Ron Carlson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Robertshaw" <groberts@fix.net>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for HQ scans/low price


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rafeb" <rafeb@channel1.com>
> > 'Tween you and me, don't bother with GF.  But get the
> > demo, anyway, and see for yourself.  Some folks here
> > think it's the cat's meow, and others (myself included)
> > find it inferior to good old bicubic interpolation.
>
> For normal enlargement...2-3x or so, I agree that Photoshop does as well
or
> better.  However, I tested the claim that GF was superior with large
amounts
> of resizing.  I did a small section of an image and resampled it to about
> 16x original.  The results are at
> http://www.geocities.com/roberthaus/gftest.jpg
> While it can't invent detail that doesn't exist, the result in this case
> does look smoother and better.
>
> If you were making murals or large posters, the results with GF may
justify
> the purchase price, but it's fairly expensive.  It also took over an hour
on
> a 450 Mhz machine to do the sample, as opposed to a couple of seconds in
> Photoshop.
>
> Gary Robertshaw
> groberts@fix.net
> Epson subscriber photo and art website list:
> http://www.geocities.com/roberthaus/photosites.html
>
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