Digital BW, The Print

Sounds like just the product needed to print jpegs
ripped off web sites. Or am I mixing topics...

Guy

--- Elwood Spedden <elwood@...> wrote:

> Clayton
> 
> Will do. I did my second experiment using a 100Kb
> jpeg
> file of my grandson which my daughter recently sent
> me. I used the same two methods as before and got
> much
> the same results. I upsized to 12X16 (yes it is an
> extreme upsizing but I wanted to stress the
> software)
> and printed at 8X10. Although this was a bit extreme
> it showed me that a 5X7 would be perfectly usable
> and
> from this small file that is an accomplishment.
> 
> What was different was that Photozoom now showed
> some
> artifacts that Bicubic smoother did not.
> 
> I will keep experimenting to determine the best
> workflow and results but Photozoom at $125 does not
> offer anything I could use to justify it. I will now
> move on to your suggestions re: bicubic and the
> Flesher workflow to be sure I find a consisent
> methodology.
> 
> As always, thanks for the time you take to make us
> all
> better imagemakers.
> 
> Sincerely
> Woody Spedden
> 
> --- Clayton Jones <cj@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Hello Woody,
> 
> >I just did an initial experiement comparing PS
> Bicubic
> >and Photozoom...I did all the process work in PS
> and
> when
> >finished upsized one copy of the image with PS CX
> >Bicubic Smoother and the other copy with Photozoom.
> >My results show a slight improvement with Photozoom
> >over PS CS...
> 
> If you are doing the upsize in a single step I hope
> you will also try
> it with CS/bicubic.  In my report I found that for a
> single step
> upsize I got better results with Bicubic compared to
> Bicubic Smoother.
>  The use of Bicubic Smoother was prominent in the
> double-step Flesher
> technique.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> 
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> but not improvement that I would either
> > pay $125 to get or the five minutes I had to wait.
> I
> > think I will repeat the test going from the S40 to
> > something really large like 30X40 to see if the
> > differences are more marked.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > My conclusion for now is that Photoshop has
> provided
> > us with a very high end upsizing tool and that is
> what
> > I will continue to use until I find a better
> reason
> to
> > buy Photozoom
> > 
> > Woody Spedden
> > >Here's what I'm doing and what I've tried so far.
> > >
> > >The Challenge: upsize some 1.2 mp JPGs that were
> shot
> > with a Casio
> > >Z-50, a pocket sized 5mp digicam.  Upsize to 8mp.
> > 
> > 
> > Clayton,
> > 
> > I'm sure you've already thought of this, and I
> admit
> > that, from 
> > reading this and later posts, I don't _fully_
> > understand your 
> > methodology, but:
> >
> 
> 
> 
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