Digital BW, The Print

Hey Ernest!

You forgot FREE LIFETIME UPGRADES, too!

You're not going to get that from Adobe. : > )


Scott


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> John Moody wrote:
> 
> >True.
> >I repeated PS7 to avoid the potential "but I don't have CS2" 
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