Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clayton,

The only tests I have done are between  Cs2 Bicubic,CS2 Bicubic
Smoother and Stairstep Interpolation Pro 2. My tests were with
moderate and extreme interpolations of 35mm and 2 1/4 drum scans from
film and transparencies. I also did one from a Cannon 1D Mark 2 file,
doubling its size.

No I haven't tried the demo of Photozoom and I have't tried Q Image at
all. 

Right now I'm trying to set up a Piezzo printer and my testing time is
limited but I will try to do the Photo Zoom vs the others test
sometime this week and get back to you. 

The more people that test different types of files with different
types of software the more we will know. 

One interesting note. The Stairstep Interpolation Pro has a setting
that allows you to sharpen or not sharepen. This sharpening apparently
occurs between each sequence of the operation. The CS2 Bicubic
Smoother apparenty doesn't do that and is a much faster operaton. How
that occurs, I have no idea. 

John

John



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> 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
>