I once asked Johathan Sachs (author of Picture Window) what he thought
about step-wise resizing. He said that if step-wise resizing did a
better job than doing it all in one go the author of the resizing
algorithm in use didn't understand how to properly implement the algorithm.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> Coo lumme!
>
> The mountains are beautiful, Brian and I envy you your scenery.
>
> But I don't envy you the amount of processing you have carried out; I
> hardly ever sharpen my images and if I do it's in rather desultory
> manner, as if it's expected ... not that I believe it's needed. But I
> certainly don't feel it's necessary to resize an image in stages like
> that, far less sharpen it all the while.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 1 Nov 2009, at 12:21, Brian Swale wrote:
>
>>> I believe you only shot JPEG, if it had been RAW the shadow details
>>> will
>>> be easier to save, I seems to see some red shift on the shadow of
>>> this
>>> image.
>>>
>>> Don't know if the Mt. Cook images are also heavily modified, I see
>>> some
>>> strange on the histrogram.
>> True, they were created in jpeg. I do not have the huge storage
>> space that
>> RAW files need.
>>
>> There was other modification to all images that I overlooked
>> mentioning.
>>
>> All were resized in several steps using Faststone; something like
>> (width)
>> 3700 > 3000 > 2000 > 1000; and after each resizing I did a sharpen of
>> usually 2 units, with a sharpen of from 2 - 4 units before the
>> resizing process
>> began..
>>
>> The only photos that I recall adding in more red were the vineyard,
>> where I
>> wanted to ensure that the bronze colour of the new poplar leaves in
>> the
>> distant shelterbelt was as obvious in the image as it was in real
>> life. This
>> shelterbelt of poplars was the main reason I stopped to take this
>> photo.
>>
>> And the photo of 3 birds, where I added a tiny bit of red to ensure
>> the red
>> hair and red scarf of the woman standing at the lake shore was as
>> obvious
>> as it seems in real life. A flaming Saggitarian !!
>
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