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My daughter used a 1.2 Mp camera to take some family photos. One is so good she wanted an enlargement of it. Up to now, 5"x7" has been the largest image I could print without considerable loss of quality.
I’ve followed threads in this group about getting larger images from small files with some interest. All I have concluded is that posters here have egos bigger that big and… That moderate posters are more willing to experiment. Someone suggested Genuine Fractals was the tool to use. Someone else said no… Use a Fred Miranda’s ‘stair interpolation’ action. Others still, claimed it couldn’t be done. Well it can be done!
I downloaded Genuine Fractals last night and resized a 3.52 meg image file to one 105 Meg in size. The result produced some noticeable grain which I partly removed with a plug-in called ‘grain surgery’. The final print I made 16"x12" and although Genuine Fractals must surely have been produced by a Sadist, the results are at least as good as you would get from a conventional enlargement of a 35mm negative.
Unfortunately Genuine Fractals is a torturous piece of software which despite entering values in every square, continues to tell you "there must be a value in every square" before you can process the image. Perhaps I will now try some of the other interpolation programs suggested by posters here and see if I can find one I can use without the sadistic merry-go-round of GF.
Basically… Enlarging images beyond their physical size is not just possible, it is also practical. Those who say it can’t be done really should stick their head out of the cave more often… Things do actually change from time to time.
Wilder that what?
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I’ve followed threads in this group about getting larger images from small files with some interest. All I have concluded is that posters here have egos bigger that big and… That moderate posters are more willing to experiment. Someone suggested Genuine Fractals was the tool to use. Someone else said no… Use a Fred Miranda’s ‘stair interpolation’ action. Others still, claimed it couldn’t be done. Well it can be done!
I downloaded Genuine Fractals last night and resized a 3.52 meg image file to one 105 Meg in size. The result produced some noticeable grain which I partly removed with a plug-in called ‘grain surgery’. The final print I made 16"x12" and although Genuine Fractals must surely have been produced by a Sadist, the results are at least as good as you would get from a conventional enlargement of a 35mm negative.
Unfortunately Genuine Fractals is a torturous piece of software which despite entering values in every square, continues to tell you "there must be a value in every square" before you can process the image. Perhaps I will now try some of the other interpolation programs suggested by posters here and see if I can find one I can use without the sadistic merry-go-round of GF.
Basically… Enlarging images beyond their physical size is not just possible, it is also practical. Those who say it can’t be done really should stick their head out of the cave more often… Things do actually change from time to time.
Wilder that what?
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