Digital BW, The Print

John Moody wrote:

>True.
>I repeated PS7 to avoid the potential \ufffdbut I don\ufffdt have CS2\ufffd comment.
>BTW, Fred Miranda has a new Resize Pro plugin that works with PS6 and up, as
>well as Elements.
>
>Best regards,
>John Moody
>  
>
Correct and it was compared with Qimage on

http://www.tommyblogs.com/FredMirandasResizeProFirstImpressions.aspx

and could according to the author be a bit better but he adds the 
question whether that is worth the trouble when Qimage takes that work 
out of your hands at print time. So even without the intelligent print 
sharpening Qimage already is big competition for dedicated 
interpolation-sharpening software. Add to that the quite recent work 
done on better down-sampling (Mike in discussion with Bart van der Wolf) 
and you get on the fly, interpolation + intelligent sharpening for 
different images and different up and down scale factors in one 
printrun, nested as well. Imagine the work to do that as nice in 
Photoshop CS or with dedicated plug-in tools. On down-sampling PS shows 
problems anyway:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvdwolf/main/foto/down_sample/down_sample.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvdwolf/main/foto/down_sample/example1.htm

To get this on topic again for Digital B&W: Mike Chaney changed features 
in Qimage to make the workflow between Qimage and QTR easier. I wonder 
where you will get that cooperation as easily. Not from Adobe and most 
likely not from one of the plug-in developers.

Ernst