Best image upsizing software

I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?
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Alfred Molon
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On 2011-11-03 17:18 , Alfred Molon wrote:
I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?

Genuine Fractals gets high marks when used iteratively (many enlargement
(small steps) steps to the end enlargement). I don't use it.

If you use PS and resize with "bicubic smoother" in small increments
(say 10% at a time) it should do well to a limit.

OTOH, once you print, if you're standing far enough back, it won't
matter much.

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On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Alfred Molon wrote:
I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?

G'mic seems to be very good:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gimpuse...7622675536442/

It is a command-line tool, but I think you can use it from a plugin in Gimp.

Regards,

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Kax

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I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site


For use with Adobe Photoshop as an Action.

Open an image you want res up.

Open the Actions palette and select "New Set".

Name it "Creeping Increase" or whatever you like.

Now select New Action and call it "1.5 Increase"

Next go to Image/Size and put a check in "Resample" and "Constrain
Proportions"

with Bicubic Smoother and change the width drop down to "percent" and enter
110.

Now go to "Image Size" do the same 3 more times.

Then "Stop Recording"



Next "New Action" Name it "2.0 Increase"

Now "Edit/Purge All"

Next select the "1.5 Increase" in the Actions Palette

and press the Play button.

select the "1.5 Increase" again,

press the Play button again.

Stop Recording.



"New Action" Name it 3.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "2.0 Increase"

Select and play the "1.5 Increase"

Stop Recording.



"New Action" Name it 4.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "3.0 Increase"

Now "Image Size" 110 percent.

And again "Image Size" 110 percent.

Stop Recording.



Save the Action.

On 2011-11-03 14:27:33 -0700, Alan Browne
said:

On 2011-11-03 17:18 , Alfred Molon wrote:
I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?

Genuine Fractals gets high marks when used iteratively (many
enlargement (small steps) steps to the end enlargement). I don't use
it.

If you use PS and resize with "bicubic smoother" in small increments
(say 10% at a time) it should do well to a limit.

OTOH, once you print, if you're standing far enough back, it won't matter much.

Genuine Fractals has moved on two generations and is now "Perfect
Resize 7" OnOne has updated the algorithm and it functions pretty well
if you are enlarging beyond the native size of the original RAW or from
a crop.

They have a Trial version and online tutorials so...
http://www.ononesoftware.com/product...ct-resize/?ind


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Regards,

Savageduck

For use with Adobe Photoshop as an Action.

Open an image you want res up.

Open the Actions palette and select "New Set".

Name it "Creeping Increase" or whatever you like.

Now select New Action and call it "1.5 Increase"

Next go to Image/Size and put a check in "Resample" and "Constrain
Proportions"

with Bicubic Smoother and change the width drop down to "percent" and enter
110.

Now go to "Image Size" do the same 3 more times.

Then "Stop Recording"



Next "New Action" Name it "2.0 Increase"

Now "Edit/Purge All"

Next select the "1.5 Increase" in the Actions Palette

and press the Play button.

select the "1.5 Increase" again,

press the Play button again.

Stop Recording.



"New Action" Name it 3.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "2.0 Increase"

Select and play the "1.5 Increase"

Stop Recording.



"New Action" Name it 4.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "3.0 Increase"

Now "Image Size" 110 percent.

And again "Image Size" 110 percent.

Stop Recording.



Save the Action.

On 11/3/2011 8:53 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2011-11-03 14:27:33 -0700, Alan Browne
said:

On 2011-11-03 17:18 , Alfred Molon wrote:
I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?

Genuine Fractals gets high marks when used iteratively (many
enlargement (small steps) steps to the end enlargement). I don't use it.

If you use PS and resize with "bicubic smoother" in small increments
(say 10% at a time) it should do well to a limit.

OTOH, once you print, if you're standing far enough back, it won't
matter much.

Genuine Fractals has moved on two generations and is now "Perfect Resize
7" OnOne has updated the algorithm and it functions pretty well if you
are enlarging beyond the native size of the original RAW or from a crop.

They have a Trial version and online tutorials so...
http://www.ononesoftware.com/product...ct-resize/?ind



I've just started using Perfect Resize. It does a creditable job. It has
a sharpening algorithm based upon PS's unsharp mask, that allows you to
tweak the areas to help balance the sharp vs noise issue. It also only
sharpens the luminescence to minimize halo effects. However, I recommend
turning off sharpening, because it tends to sharpen all layers
containing pixels.

--
Peter

Alfred Molon writes:

I've been playing a bit with Blow Up with mixed results. It repairs the
edges, but the result is a bit plasticky. Which is at the moment the
best image upsizing software?

I've read articles by picky people who make big prints a lot. Pretty
frequently, they find that whatever software packages they're testing
that week are better than what they used to use some of the time -- and
worse some of the time. It appears to depend a lot on the exact image
being enlarged. A friend who does high-end custom photo printing uses
various upsizing software, trying things until he finds what's best for
a given image. (The differences are mostly very small anyway; but at
that level of custom printing, that's what he's paid for, being VERY
picky.)