Thanks very much for that Moose. Fred Miranda's plug-in seems to win
over any of the others ...
Chris
On 27 Mar 2005, at 00:31, Moose wrote:
> Nonetheless, I have put up a comparison on the web. This is just a
> first
> test, using FM Resize Pro defaults. I don't even know what the options
> are yet. :-)
>
> Should be pretty self-explanatory from the labeling. I chose the
> particular example because is has so many elements in it, bright and
> drab colors, bright sun and shade in complex combos, a face in both sun
> and shadow, lots of creases in hat and clothes, etc. I think it tests
> resizing in a lot of different ways. For that very reason, the sample
> images are relatively large so lots of different things can be seen, so
> beware, the image is about 800k. It also may be too big to compare
> specific parts at once on your screen. You can open it in two browser
> windows at once side by side to arrange different comparisons. It
> should
> be in your cache, so the second window should load quickly.
>
> Lots to see and evaluate here. I've done tests with the others before,
> so no real surprise there. Although Resize appears to me to be clearly
> a
> bit sharper than the others overall, what was an unexpected and
> pleasant
> surprise is the much lower noise/graininess in the shadow areas.
>
> As I said, there are a few options and I've only tried High ISO, Level
> 2
> and without Color Noise Reduction here. One can also save named option
> settings.
>
> Anyway, for what it is worth, here it is
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/resize.htm>.
>
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