Digital BW, The Print

Hey Austin:

Thanks for the explanation and root of the term. Under which PS menu is 
the check box you use in allowing decimation or not?

And what is the difference between selecting this box when resizing an 
image and not?


Thanks again,

Joel


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin" <
darkroom@i...> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> Decimation is a process by which you decrease the amount of data.
> Technically, it originally meant 1 out of 10 was removed, but in signal
> processing, it simply means N removed.  If you have an image that is 320
> pixels across, and you want to downsize it to 160 pixels across, every other
> pixel would be removed.  It can be done by simple removal, or by doing it
> algorithmically...in a simple sense, taking two pixels and averaging them
> together and replacing the two values with the one averaged value.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
> 
> 
> > Hello:
> >
> > coudl you clarify what you mean by "decimating the image" in PS?
> > Where is the "little box" in resizing that
> > allows/disallows "decimating."
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > joel
> >
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin"
> > >