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Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D

03/14/2004 11:21:08 PM · #1

Have any of you used the Extensis plugins for photoshop? I downloaded the demos of two of the programs and one of them is a poster ripper. It is suppose to make photos 1600% bigger without quality loss. I was playing around with a 640X427 photo and enlarged it to 3000X4500 and I couldn't believe how good it looked. You could hardly tell that it came from a small web sized photo. It seems like an awesome program and worth it if you are going to need HUGE photos!

mcrael

Nikon D300

03/14/2004 11:43:49 PM · #2

Where did you get the poster ripper plugin from? I'd like to give it a try!

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

03/15/2004 12:02:56 AM · #3

Originally posted by mcrael:

Where did you get the poster ripper plugin from? I'd like to give it a try!

oops, sorry. The plug-in can be found here- pxL SmartScale

frisca

Nikon D70

03/15/2004 01:11:55 AM · #4

I use extensis and have had great success with it! I took a shot from a 2.1MP camera and got it to look great at 16x20 printed!

kiwiness

Canon Canon 1d x Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/15/2004 03:39:54 AM · #5

I don't know the poster ripper plugin, but I have used the Extensis Intellihance plugin in the past which was good, especially if you don't have much time to work on a photo and want to get the best out of it quickly.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

03/15/2004 02:34:25 PM · #6

I think that Intellihance is pretty good too. I think that when I do my sisters wedding that I'm just going to make an action and run all the photos through that so I don't have to open each one of them.

With SmartScale last night I tried to make one of my photos a 40X60 at 300PPI and after a half hour I decided just to shut down my computer cause it was almost 3. It was almost half way done.

EddyG

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

03/15/2004 10:43:47 PM · #7

Speaking of upsampling algorithms, this picture shows a comparison of various up-rez algorithms.

The original is on the top left, which is down-sampled to 25% (top-right), and then various algorithms are used to up-sample it back up to "original size" (equivalent to taking a 300dpi 4x6 print and up-sampling it to a 300dpi 16x24 print).

The "Vector" and new "Pyramid" algorithms are part of the awesome Qimage software.

By the way, the gross-looking "pixel resize" sample is equivalent to the "digital zoom" in many cameras (which is why it should be avoided).

Unfortunately it doesn't include a comparison of Extensis pxl.SmartScale, but since the 25%-reduced original is there, it should be easy to "up-rez" it 4X and compare it if you are interested.

If you want giant-size prints, Qimage rocks!

Message edited by author 2004-03-15 22:45:06.

nicklevy

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

03/15/2004 10:46:54 PM · #8

After reading this post, I decided to give a try to Pxl Smartscale because at my job I often have to resize some images. It's fast and doing great but unless you are in a real hurry , Bicubic 5% and a little sharpenning with PS do a better job by far IMHO.

This is a picture i doubled the size with the extensis plugin.

This is the same crop from the same picture wich i double the size too but with bicubic 5% sharp.