Digital BW, The Print

Hello John,

>Well that's just it. All this stuff is file and image dependent 
>in my experience. I personally am much more interested in what 
>happens when I take a 4000 or 8000dpi drum scan of a 35mm neg and 
>take that up very large. And for something like that I find the new 
>CS2 Bicubic Smoother to be quite good. The degree of contrast in your 
>original file is also very important. Cheap digital cameras are crude 
>in that regard.

Exactly.  The most interesting thing to come out of my test is the
difference between resizing before and after the work.  I'm curious to
know if that principle also applies to your scans, or to high quality
DSLR images.  Can you do some tests to verify that?



>I don't think Adobe would have gone to all the trouble they did to
>release the new Sharpening tools if they were not a significant
>improvement over traditional Bicubic interpolation. It's all relative
>to the file you start with. 

I've had the impression, probably from the advertising hype, that PS
tools aren't as good as the independent specialty tools.  But for
upsizing at least, the PS stuff seems pretty hard to beat.  But again,
that's for these cheapo digicam files.  Does it hold true with higher
quality images?  Have you compared your results with the Photozoom
demo, or others?


Regards,
Clayton


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