I have a client who shoots TV shows on HD. One of the show’s producers asked if they can capture some still and make them at a high enough resolution suitable making promos and sending them to press. I never had any luck up-sampling. I always get fringing and blurring. There used to be some programs that promised they could do it.
Is there anything out there that could do a good job?
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Genuine Fractals was actually designed primarily to DOWNsample high resolution images.
It won’t do any better at UP-rezzing low-grade images than Photoshop’s Bicubic Smoother regardless of what GF’s advertising claims.
You cannot add more "tiles" (pixels) to a mosaic floor just by increasing the size of the room all you are doing by up-rezzing is adding more Grout (albeit COLORED grout) between the tiles!
I was afraid you guys were going to say this and Ann’s explanation makes complete sense. I do recall a photographer who was selling something years ago and it looked incredible.
Nick. That one look great especially when they compare it to PS bicubic smoother which is what I get when I use it. I’ll recommend that one. I should get a copy too. I’ll see how it works for the client before I spring.
Keep in mind. If you are uprezing relatively low rez files or even files from scans. the software mentioned will not do you a bit of good other than waste a couple hundred dollars. The 3rd party software will serve you best when working with digital images. Unless you are doing alot of this type of work.
Buko. These would be grabs from HD video so they’ll start at 72DPI. I guess the client can return it if it doesn’t do the trick. I don’t know any way that’s acceptable. Just the old step up rez blur, sharpen, repeat which doesn’t really work well.
That was a good tip on downloading a demo. I missed that on their site. I gave it a go and the results are much better than PS although certainly not without its problems. I’ll have to do a print test to see.
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