Digital BW, The Print

Final dpi is crucial in GF IMO. A 4000dpi scan at neg size, without altering
the print dpi for final sizing can take hours!

Julian
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From: "SKID Photography" <skid@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:06 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re:off topic Re: lossless archiving


> >
> > Last week I tried the trail version of Genuine fractals print pro to
> > up size an 35mm neg to 10x8, it took an hour to process on a G4 Mac
> > with 1 gb memory. The original scan was 20 mg and the final print
> > over 100mg! So I have decided to go for the MrSid photoshop plugin.
> > It is claimed that a 20 mg can be reduced to 1 mg , opened in
> > Photoshop without detail loss, worked on and saved either in MrSid or
> > TIFF.
>
> Did you try the 'compressed' option in Genuine Fractals?  It would make
sense that bumping a small image up to
> 8x10 would increase the files size.  You don't mention what dpi you saved
the 8x10 to.
>
> Also, you could have saved that 100 MG image as a '12' (top) quality jpg,
or as a LZW compressed tiff, to
> knock down the size.
>
> We too, have found that when you bump an image way up in genuine fractals,
it take a lot of computing power.
> We assumed that was due to the complex algorithms used to effectively
'fill in the dots' between the original
> pixels.
>
> Harvey Ferdschneider
> partner, SKID Photography, NYC
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