Digital BW, The Print

--- "Dennis W. Manasco" <dmanasco@...> wrote:


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At 5:03 AM +0000 1/8/06, Clayton Jones wrote:
Clayton et al

I just did an initial experiement comparing PS Bicubic
and Photozoom. The image was shot with my wife's Canon
S40 (4 MPX). I did all the process work in PS and when
finished upsized one copy of the image with PS CX
Bicubic Smoother and the other copy with Photozoom.
Finally I printed the images at 20X26.

The one major difference between the two from a
workflow standpoint is that the PS CS upsize took
about 20 seconds. The Photozoom took almost five
minutes! This is on a Windows machine that is running
the Intel dual core processor with 2GB Ram.

My results show a slight improvement with Photozoom
over PS CS, but not improvement that I would either
pay $125 to get or the five minutes I had to wait. I
think I will repeat the test going from the S40 to
something really large like 30X40 to see if the
differences are more marked.

My conclusion for now is that Photoshop has provided
us with a very high end upsizing tool and that is what
I will continue to use until I find a better reason to
buy Photozoom

Woody Spedden
>Here's what I'm doing and what I've tried so far.
>
>The Challenge: upsize some 1.2 mp JPGs that were shot
with a Casio
>Z-50, a pocket sized 5mp digicam.  Upsize to 8mp.


Clayton,

I'm sure you've already thought of this, and I admit
that, from 
reading this and later posts, I don't _fully_
understand your 
methodology, but: