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alpi
Is there a freeware which smoothly transforms an image into an image in
higher resolution
higher resolution
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A.A. Fussy
alpi said:
Babya Software Group's Babya Photo Workshop Pro 2.0 might be able to do what
you're looking for:
Babya Photo Workshop Professional is a freeware and professional image
editor.
It has a range of image effects filters, can be used with TWAIN scanners-so
you could scan in a image and edit it in Babya Photo Workshop Professional,
you can add borders and frames to image, save custom colors in 'Babya Color
Collection' *.bbc format and more. Also includes Babya Photo Workshop
Standard-a
basic bitmap editor.
New in version:
-Create image slideshows via the included Babya Presenter 1.0 (also
freeware)
Freeware by Babya Software Group
Website: http://babyasystem.portal.dk3.com
Download: http://tinyurl.com/3xtz2
Size: 712KB
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kritikul
irfanview
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MightyKitten
AFAIK there isn't any freeware to realy do that. There are only some
Commercial packages claiming they can. I tried them, but to be honest They
all suck. Tey do give you a higher reolution (e.g. enlaging the image)
Be warned that all the software 9even the commercially aviable) are not as
good as claimed in the movies. You cannot enchance resolution to read
otherwise unreadable text, or to clear out the reflection in the mirror.
That, I'm afraid, is only aviable If you were black suites, a tie,
sunglasses and a wrong haircut in the middle of summer.
A little explanation:
there are (at the moment 3 mayor ways to enhance rsolution
<Copy and Paste> <-- to expalane the lack of errors in this part -->
a.. Bicubic is the slowest but produces the best estimation of new pixel
values.
b.. Bilinear is faster than bicubic, but does a poorer job. Both bicubic
and bilinear interpolation result in a blurred image, especially when
upsampling.
c.. Nearest Neighbor doesn't use interpolation. It simply takes the value
of the neighboring pixels and adds new pixels without averaging them. This
is when you get the jaggies or stair-step effect.
</Copy and Paste> <!-- on with the typo's -->
Nearest neighbor is most used in software (moste image applications will use
this technique if you use the "Resise picture" command and enlarge it wit
xxx% )
The best I tried so far is S-spline
http://www.trulyphotomagic.com/shortcut/customer/welcome.php (Shareware).
S-Spline gives the best image quality if you double the resolution with the
bi-cubic mode (acceptable for walpaper use, not for printing) and gives
reasonable quality when enhanced 4 times.
By the way, don't be mislead by the pictures on the site. Though absolutly
true, these pictures are very probably slected after a lot of try outs.
Resume:
To be short: If you just want to blow up your picture: Many freeware
(including Irfan view, babaya and PhotoFiltre) applications will do that.
S-spline will do a beter job if you want to enlarge more (There are more
publishers, but all shareware or commercial). Packages that realy keep
quality: Call your local Secret Service Agency...
MightyKitten
Commercial packages claiming they can. I tried them, but to be honest They
all suck. Tey do give you a higher reolution (e.g. enlaging the image)
Be warned that all the software 9even the commercially aviable) are not as
good as claimed in the movies. You cannot enchance resolution to read
otherwise unreadable text, or to clear out the reflection in the mirror.
That, I'm afraid, is only aviable If you were black suites, a tie,
sunglasses and a wrong haircut in the middle of summer.
A little explanation:
there are (at the moment 3 mayor ways to enhance rsolution
<Copy and Paste> <-- to expalane the lack of errors in this part -->
a.. Bicubic is the slowest but produces the best estimation of new pixel
values.
b.. Bilinear is faster than bicubic, but does a poorer job. Both bicubic
and bilinear interpolation result in a blurred image, especially when
upsampling.
c.. Nearest Neighbor doesn't use interpolation. It simply takes the value
of the neighboring pixels and adds new pixels without averaging them. This
is when you get the jaggies or stair-step effect.
</Copy and Paste> <!-- on with the typo's -->
Nearest neighbor is most used in software (moste image applications will use
this technique if you use the "Resise picture" command and enlarge it wit
xxx% )
The best I tried so far is S-spline
http://www.trulyphotomagic.com/shortcut/customer/welcome.php (Shareware).
S-Spline gives the best image quality if you double the resolution with the
bi-cubic mode (acceptable for walpaper use, not for printing) and gives
reasonable quality when enhanced 4 times.
By the way, don't be mislead by the pictures on the site. Though absolutly
true, these pictures are very probably slected after a lot of try outs.
Resume:
To be short: If you just want to blow up your picture: Many freeware
(including Irfan view, babaya and PhotoFiltre) applications will do that.
S-spline will do a beter job if you want to enlarge more (There are more
publishers, but all shareware or commercial). Packages that realy keep
quality: Call your local Secret Service Agency...
MightyKitten
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on-the-fly
alpi said:
Yes there is, so you are in luck!
It takes a combination of 2 programs to do the high-quality reworks that I
do. It does take a little time to teach yourself just what and how to do
it, but it is very doable.
First rework your pictures with "Irfanview" by using such things from
"Effects" as, blur, sharpen, etc., then use the "Enhance Colors" to change
not only colors but brightness and contrast, and don't forget to use your
mouse as a crop-tool, and of course use the resize option before you make
any enhancements to the photo.
Then when you have it at the highest quality that you can achieve in
Irfanview, then save it as a ".bmp" and then run it through "DCEnhance" to
really increase the picture quality (Absolutely amazing what can be done
with this little freeware program!).
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
Version 1.3 (aprox 529kb zip file)
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/dcenhanc.zip
Oh, one thing, always save your work as a Windows BitMap (.bmp), and then
save your final copy as a ".bmp". That way, you will have your photo saved
at the highest quality and resolution, then you can resize, crop, and lower
the quality to suit your other purposes from there by re-saving in such
formats as .gif, .jpg, etc.
Make sure to practice a lot, and have fun like I do!
otf
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CoMa
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Why save it in BMP when you can save it in PNG.
PNG make the file smaller then BMP.
PNG is also non destructive image format just like BMP.
The test image I used was a 24bits image that was 1024*768 large
and had 36006 unique colours.
It was a image in JPG format that I had opened in IrfanView and then
"save as..." to BMP and PNG format.
BMP = 2.359 Mb large
PNG = 1.277 Mb large
You can see the orginal image here (made in Terragen)
http://www.terranuts.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2633
/CoMa
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(e-mail address removed)
http://www.algonet.se/~hubbabub/
ICQ : 1351964
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especially towards the end.
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Why save it in BMP when you can save it in PNG.
PNG make the file smaller then BMP.
PNG is also non destructive image format just like BMP.
The test image I used was a 24bits image that was 1024*768 large
and had 36006 unique colours.
It was a image in JPG format that I had opened in IrfanView and then
"save as..." to BMP and PNG format.
BMP = 2.359 Mb large
PNG = 1.277 Mb large
You can see the orginal image here (made in Terragen)
http://www.terranuts.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2633
/CoMa
--
Conny (CoMa) Magnusson
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.algonet.se/~hubbabub/
ICQ : 1351964
=============================
An eternity is very, very long,
especially towards the end.