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Alien skin blowup tested.. Anonymous
Ok.. got a demo of alien skin blowup to try it out..

long story short.. i'm quite satisfied.

I took the original, expanded it to roughly 8 times as many pixels in size, then resized it down a little bit using standard "bicubic smoother" to tone down the graining effect a wee bit.

first, the result
>> Anonymous
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now, the original.
>> Anonymous
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applied an unsharp mask to the result for a crisper picture.
>> Yo Momma
Now run it through Neat Image Pro and it'll look great.
>> Anonymous
>>107476
don't have neat image.. feel free to give it a shot though.. im interested in how much better it can be.
>> Anonymous
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>>107491
in fact.. here's the original straight out of the filter.

i'd give it to you in png, but it was 9 meg.. so i saved it at absolute max jpg.
>> Yo Momma
>>107516

Got a (gmail?) addy that I can send a rarred .bmp to? JPG upon JPG sucks >P

Just mail it to mine (see blue name)
>> Yo Momma
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Actually, it's not so bad.

Also, Photozoom has done this exact same resize effect for much longer than Alien Skin Blowup, judging from the resized look anyway.

This is at 100% JPG
Had to use a small sample area cuz this image didn't lend itself well for it.
>> Anonymous
>>107536
on your way to you.. it seems gmail is congested though.. no idea when exactly theyll actually send through.
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>>107537

Hmm.. noiseninja seems to do a better job >; ) it produced richer reds and more solidified text on the hair piece.
>> Yo Momma
The idea behind it is however, that Neat Image doesn't actually change the original look of the image, it only takes out the noise.

The noise-ninja image seen at 100% looks washed out in facial areas, for example.
But that's my opinion, I'm into preserving images original looks.

Mailed you "my" version (with a better cleanup part too, so it should be a bit less noisy than the one I posted here) ;D
>> Anonymous
please stop making this filter crap
nothing you do to make an image bigger can make it look better. period.
>> Neod
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>>107464
the original of the orignal before I cleaned it.
>> Anonymous
How did you do the area with the two characters legs and the bush there is no reference for the beg,the pants,or the bushes' topps.
Just best guess.
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>>107558
a hue adjustment (-3) fixed the face issue and made the reds truer through ninja. I also have two monitors.. and from close scrutiny on both it seems the face depends as much on calibration as anything else. (my main ACD has a truer calibration than the secondary monitor i use for tha nav windoww in CS2)

as for>>107559I will demonstrate to you where youre wrong on this regard. Compare the after (left) to the before(right).
Note the before is incredibly noisy and pixelated when scaled normally rather than through alien skin blow-up and noiseninja.
>> Anonymous
>>107570
but you should now that even if it looks fine, there was still data loss.
learn how image extensions work first, then; we'll talk.
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>>107572
blah blah blah.. you do know i make vectors here right? good ones.
and when you scale this image back down ater all this filtering to 1200px tall, it's actually crisp and usable for wallpapering, where using pshop's built in scalers would have resulted in shiat.
>> omfg
They all look like they've been run through a watercolor filter. The vector technique would be good if illustrator or acrylic didn't mutilate text when it converts it.
>> Anonymous
>>107586
the level of detail present here would mean "the vector technique" would take time approximately equivalent to the half life of plutonium.. give or take a couple hundred years.

That said.. The final result does not look washed out at all to me, and im amazingly picky.

Finally.. from what I can tell of this new blowup plugin.. it essentially does automatically what I do manually when vectoring.. it fills in missing data by interpolation of the existing data.

You can make arguments one way or the other based on the circumstance, but given the time frame I estimated above.. I say the plugin is the best bet, and it produced decent results.
>> Yo Momma
>>107589

http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=ourproducts&section=photozoompro_1

The original deal >)
>> Anonymous
>>107592
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=photozoom+pro&op=and&sourceid=Mozilla-search
>> Anonymous
>>107602
My tower is a g5 (macOS 10.4 tiger)

nice try there.. but i've not seen a photozoom for mac torrent.
>> Anonymous
please, always post the original before posting a modified ver.
>> omfg
>>107589

Watercolor =/= washed out. Take a look at the solid color variance in hard areas of the faces and detailed objects.
>> Maglad
source?
>> Anonymous
>>107960
it's in the thread.. both the cleaned up and the original text filled image.. series is genshiken.