blue_lurker wrote:
Ok heres another thing I always have trouble with, re-sizing an image. Now to reduce I know its easy just go to the
Image> Image Size menu
Click on Re-sample Image and choose Bicubic Sharper from the drop-down menu.
This is the best setting for making sure that an image doesn't blur. You get a good result most times in PSCS, but what if you want to increase the size of your image and still keep that sharp crisp look.
I always have trouble with it blurring or pixelating some times I get a reasonable result but you cant increase it to far.
My question is, how do you increase the size of an image with out loosing to much quality?
This is a TOUGH one.
Part of the deal, when you stop to think about it, is that you can cut a piece of wood smaller, but it is kind of a tricky problem to cut the wood LARGER.
There is no "perfect" way. There is the Photoshop "IMAGE SIZE" happy area: Bicubic SMOOTHER is your first step. In the new CS3 they've actually added the words "bicubic sharper (best for reduction)" and "bicubic smoother (best for enlargement)".
It can help if you up-size in about 5 to 10% intervals. But it will still not be razor sharp (assuming your original was). Some like to add a small amount of Smart Sharpen, or Unsharp Mask at every step.
There are some programs out there that are touted to do this particular job rather well, two of them being
Genuine Fractals and another one being Corel's
Blow Up.
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