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Is there a tutorial or something that can explain to me how to edit wallpapers to a higher resolution without them becoming blurred or distorted? I want to resize a bunch into 1680x1050, which ill be my new monitor's native resolution (and a very common desktop resolution, apparently) but I couldn't find any guides.

Thanks.
>> Anonymous
Probably beause it can't really be done, n00blet.
>> Pick one Anonymous
>>edit wallpapers to a higher resolution without them becoming blurred or distorted

[ ] NO SUCH THING

[ ] VECTORING
>> Anonymous
>>381083

okay, then how do I vector them?
>> Anonymous
Theres an article I once saw on wiki which (I think) is a vectoring tutorial. But I didn't save the link, too bad.
>> Anonymous
Also, vectoring takes a lot of time to do well. Unless you are okay with large flat coloured areas, having your OS stretch your walls is much less work and looks a lot better, if a bit fuzzy. It also depends on your OS and/or installed plugins/tools of course. GNU/Linux based systems generally do a better job than Windows XP. Have heard good stories about MacOS X as well. Dunno about Vista, as I don't use it. If you use Windows XP you might want to pre-stretch the wall to a bitmap using ImageMagick or your favourite image editor. Otherwise, I can only say that information that isn't in the picture simply isn't there and there's no way to make it magically appear. Sorry.
>> Anonymous
>>381082

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>> Anonymous
>>381135

So simply resizing them to 1680x1050 in photoshop is easier?
>> Anonymous
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While it will never look as good as the original you can filter the upscaled picture with sharpness, contrast and color level to fix most of the problems.

The picture is my upscale/filter attempt.
>> Anonymous
>>381185
And you failed.
>> Anonymous
>>381183
Easier yes, but to quote
>>381135
>information that isn't in the picture simply isn't there and there's no way to make it magically appear
On the bright side, it will not look much worse than it would have looked on 1024x768. If course, your newer monitor is probably bigger, which means the same pixels are stretched over a larger surface... again, what isn't there to begin with, just isn't there. And if you want to see an approximation of what it would have looked like if your monitor's resolution would have been 1024x768, stretch it with a nearest neighbour filter. It will look quite crappy and it will make you reappreciate your new high resolution monitor.
>> Anonymous
I just tried resizing it using a standard bicubic filter (like most image editors use) and while not perfect, it looked good enough that if my monitor would have been 1680x1050, I would have used it as my wall without a second thought. Enter the "you must be looking at your wall with your eyes closed" flamers. Well they can flame all they want, it'll keep them of the streets and I don't mind.
Still, if you hope for a slightly better result, you might want to try this:
http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/index.html
Not that user friendly, though. You have to enter arcane commands to make it do stuff, but it is reasonably documented. Don't get your hopes up too much though... as has been said several times already, what isn't there, isn't there. Or to formulate it differently, we can try to make the existing information look better, but we can't recreate information that was lost when the image was saved as 1034x768.
>> Anonymous
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>>381189

It was a 5 minute job.
I spent another 5 minute for a border+blur filter to smooth out the skin and hair, I got lazy and blured some parts that shouldn't have been but it would have been easy to use the eraser on the bad parts.

I know that filtering will never reproduce the original picture in higher res but it can get damn close if you want to spent the time to fix it.
>> Anonymous
>>381218
Perhaps he was primarily referring to the target resolution? 1680x1050?
>> Anonymous
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>>381256

OP didn't directly ask for a rezise/crop of that particular wallpaper, it was a request for a tutorial on how to upscale walls.

Here it is anyway if anyone wants it. Restarted from the OP pic and spent more time on blur/contrast/color curve.
>> Anonymous
>>381206
Erm... most of it is reasonably documented, however: "Resizing mode is fully functional, but documentation is missing"
Anyone around who has any experience with it?