Digital BW, The Print

Hi James,

Yes it does. Bicubic smoother is supposed to give better results when going larger, and Bicubic sharper going smaller. I use Fred Miranda's SI plugin which, I believe, still only uses standard Bicubic. Whatever it does the result always matched or exceeded other tools; I own GF 3.0, for example.

I agree on pxlSmartScale...just simply not worth the money no matter what the advertisers say!

Alan Huntley

> 
> From: James Irelan <james@...>
> Date: 2004/09/25 Sat PM 07:34:04 EDT
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] 10% Bicubic verses Camera Raw plug-in interpolation
> 
> 
> On Sep 25, 2004, at 4:18 PM, A. Huntley wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> >  I've done head-to-head comparisons between Genuine Fractals (3.0),
> >  pxlSmartScale, Fred Miranda's SI plugin, PS Bicubic, Lanzcos and 
> > probably a
> >  couple I've forgotten.
> 
> Doesn't PS CS contain an improved interpolation engine?  Most of my 
> images are already big enough, but I did try a demo of SmartScale one 
> time, and, while it was ok, I wasn't able to convince myself that it 
> was worth its price tag of around $200.