On Feb 17, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Stephen Scharf wrote:
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>
>
> Tris, I really like Fred Miranda's actions and plug-ins, too. I think
> they're great, and a much better value and performer than S-Spline,
> which I bought the first version of for about $80 two or so years
> ago. My experience was NOT positive; I felt it was a complete waste
> of money of $80. I wrote them and demanded a refund and they blew me
> off. I haven't dared to spend more money with them for S-Spine 2 as I
> was so badly ripped off the first time, I haven't dared.
>
> BTW, Vincent LaForet, one of the contributors to SportsShooter.com
> wrote up a blurb about Genuine Fractals:
>
> "GENUINE FRACTALS: I've done a lot of testing and have a lot to say
> about up-scaling of digital images - techniques that I will write
> about in the more comprehensive part two of the digital darkroom
> series - for now I can share the following conclusion: I have found
> little to no advantage in using Genuine Fractals to upsize images
> from my EOS 1-D files - step-resizing, or increasing the file size in
> a number of small steps as opposed to one large step in Photoshop has
> given me the best results. Working off of the raw TIFF files, and/or
> the original JPEGS is pivotal in obtaining the best results."
>
> Here is the original link:
> http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1104
>
> I believe the above method that LaForet is referring to is how Fred
> Miranda uses Stair Interpolation.
>
Michael Reichmann, who was a Genuine Fractals fan for years, recently
decided to test Smart Scale with side by side tests and examples of
what he got. I can see precious little difference between any of the
methods for upsizing in his example. And a simple one time resize in
Photoshop is about as good as any. He thinks that the 110% expansion
method which is used by Miranda might be a little better, but the
difference is subtle at best.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/smartscale.shtml
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
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