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I have an image which consists of a rocky foreground, a tree, and a blue sky. I printed the image at 8×10, and it came out quite well. When I printed it at 11×14, the sky became speckled. This does not surprise me, as the image came from a scan of a 35mm slide. The image is printing at 240 dpi, so it is not an issue of pixellation. I believe it is a matter of the scanner creating noise in the large areas of continuous tone.
I selected the sky and applied a Gaussian blur, and the print came out significantly better. I used a radius of 1 pixel.
My question: For anyone who has experience with this, do you have any advice on how to do this well? Will I get better results with a smaller radius, repeated several times? A larger radius? A different blurring tool? I am not dissatisfied with my results so far, but I am curious to know if people with more experience have some suggestions. I do notice a slight softness to the sky, and I wonder if a different technique will get rid of the speckles, but keep a sharpness to the color gradations in the sky.
Thank you!
I selected the sky and applied a Gaussian blur, and the print came out significantly better. I used a radius of 1 pixel.
My question: For anyone who has experience with this, do you have any advice on how to do this well? Will I get better results with a smaller radius, repeated several times? A larger radius? A different blurring tool? I am not dissatisfied with my results so far, but I am curious to know if people with more experience have some suggestions. I do notice a slight softness to the sky, and I wonder if a different technique will get rid of the speckles, but keep a sharpness to the color gradations in the sky.
Thank you!
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