John Schwaller and others have recommended a program called QImage for resampling images for printing. I bought a copy – it’s only 90 bucks – and tried it out. The program works sort of like a RIP, but without actually doing the rasterizing, since it only accepts files that are already rasterized. You can import… [Read More]
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Resampling for printing in Lightroom
I imported the 240 ppi printing target from the previous post into Lightroom and printed it to the 3880, selecting 360 ppi as the print resolution. Here’s what I got: The trees are fuzzier then the Photoshop bicubic example in the previous post. The letters are much fuzzier. The two lines with single pixel spacing… [Read More]
Resampling for printing — basic alternatives
After a couple of false starts, I created the following test image for resampling tests: The test image has a smooth gradient in the upper left corner, a series of lines at two tones and two angles in the lower left corner, two characters of Zone V antialiased text, and a crop from an actual… [Read More]
Resampling – the mailbag
I got some perceptive comments about the resampling post, all from the same person. Here’s the first: For starters, two-thirds (not half) of the information in any color image from a Bayer-pattern sensor is fabricated. Half of the green and three-quarters each of the red and blue pixel values are made up. Absolutely true. My… [Read More]
Resampling
Resampling has a bad name among many photographers. Here’s a typical pronouncement, from here: “I am not going to address resampling here because it degrades an image and has little application in fine art photography. (Resampling is when Photoshop adds pixels to an image.)” Dodgy grammar aside, I strongly disagree. On the artistic level, I… [Read More]
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