Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I'd like to give that a try. Bicubic I presume?
>
> I've lately just relied on the FM plug-in SI-Pro. But I think it actually
> works sort of along the same principle. I like SI-Pro for downsizing quite
> well -- convenient to configure various ways.
>
Indeed, that's what the "SI" stands for, Step Interpolation. I believe
SI-Pro II, which I use, does a better job than I can do with a lot of
xx% at a time steps. At least that's what I found with the original
SI_Pro, and II is better.
It's excellent for down-sampling, but I prefer the results with
IntelliSharpen II at display size to doing sharpening as part of
down-sampling. It's also the best up-rez app I've tried for general use.
For printing, Qimage does a better up-rez job - quite amazing, really.
Anyone who isn't using tools like SI-Pro II, IntelliSharpen II, PTLens
and NeatImage or equivalent plug-ins from other makers is wasting a lot
of time. They do a better job than I can do with PS's built-in tools,
and in much less time. The first three, especially, are so inexpensive
it seems nuts to me not to use them.
I have them built into Actions with my own settings. Down-sizing to my
standard display sizes, 840H or 760V, flattening layers, 16=>8 bit and
open save dialog for JPG are all in single Actions.
Moose
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