Digital BW, The Print

Clayton

Will do. I did my second experiment using a 100Kb jpeg
file of my grandson which my daughter recently sent
me. I used the same two methods as before and got much
the same results. I upsized to 12X16 (yes it is an
extreme upsizing but I wanted to stress the software)
and printed at 8X10. Although this was a bit extreme
it showed me that a 5X7 would be perfectly usable and
from this small file that is an accomplishment.

What was different was that Photozoom now showed some
artifacts that Bicubic smoother did not.

I will keep experimenting to determine the best
workflow and results but Photozoom at $125 does not
offer anything I could use to justify it. I will now
move on to your suggestions re: bicubic and the
Flesher workflow to be sure I find a consisent
methodology.

As always, thanks for the time you take to make us all
better imagemakers.

Sincerely
Woody Spedden

--- Clayton Jones <cj@...> wrote:


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Hello Woody,

>I just did an initial experiement comparing PS
Bicubic
>and Photozoom...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.
>My results show a slight improvement with Photozoom
>over PS CS...

If you are doing the upsize in a single step I hope
you will also try
it with CS/bicubic.  In my report I found that for a
single step
upsize I got better results with Bicubic compared to
Bicubic Smoother.
 The use of Bicubic Smoother was prominent in the
double-step Flesher
technique.

Regards,
Clayton


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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:
>





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