Digital BW, The Print

I started with the first Genuine Fractals and have used every 
permutation since \u2014 up to and including the latest "Perfect Resize." I 
have always had satisfactory results. The latest versions give you some 
options that are best done in Photoshop (IMHO), sharpening being one of 
those.
Joe


On 10/22/2014 21:36, Paul Roark roark.paul@... 
[DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] wrote:
> The only testing I've done on up-sizing relates to minimizing the 
> losses where there are geometric alterations in the file, like in 
> stitching.  In those cases a "smart" up-res (old Genuine 
> Fractals/Perfect Resize or -- better -- PS CC in auto mode) of 200% 
> does seem to preserve details.  See 
> http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Perfect-Resize-comparison.jpg
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.PaulRoark.com>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Myron Gochnauer goch@... 
> <mailto:goch@...> [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] 
> <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there any received wisdom on when resizing of an image should
>     be done during processing?
>
>     >From experience, but not careful testing, I do any upsizing in
>     Photoshop as early as possible in my processing, but after I have
>     performed any necessary noise reduction.
>
>     My untested thinking is that upsizing before noise reduction might
>     make noise reduction less reliable, since upsizing always involves
>     *some* degree of guessing and so has some reasonable likelihood of
>     producing random noise artifacts. (I use noise reduction plugins
>     that rely on analyzing the image, or a representatively similar
>     image. The more uniform and predictable the noise is, the better
>     they seem to work.)
>
>     Have any of you done careful tests to solve this problem? If not,
>     does my approach seem sensible?
>
>     Every time I decide I should test this, I run into complications
>     in the nature of \u201cwell, it depends. . .\u201d. And, of course, it
>     usually doesn\u2019t make any visible difference at all when I finally
>     just get it up on the wall. :-)
>
>     Myron
>
>
> 

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