Feather torture- ohh so ticklish!

[Anonymous]

:lol:

 

[BlueFang]

Is that for real? Come on!! You didn't touch it up a bit with photoshop or something did ya?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not good enough with photoshop to do much of any quality. That tank's background is really like that. I used a flash on that one- it's hard to capture the "feathers" clearly while they're flowing, so flash helps.

I think I did adjust the contrast and brightness in PS, and of course the border was added, and the pic cropped and resized.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, that's just down right sexy. I'm gonna save it

B

 

[TrevorRobertson]

WOW great picture!!

 

[Reef_Monkey]

yeah very nice!!

 

[Anonymous]

Why, thank ye!

 

[Anonymous]

Dude thats stunning! Im agast! Utterly flabbergasted!

You rock 8)

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Hes!

Man, you know what REALLY ticks me off? After I cropped it, resized it, and put that border on, my DUMB ASS deleted the original. That means, no nice big printing. Grrr....

 

[Anonymous]

u messed with the background and i can see where. this pixel pusher knows where to look. if you'd like, i can show you more efficient ways to mask your furtive alterations.

 

[Anonymous]

Where the feathers go over the blue? The algorithms in photoshop are pretty sophisticated- but not that sophisticated. I didn't "mess with the background," but I think the interpolative process adjusting coloration brightness and contrast sometimes produces some artifacts and effects you don't intend. So yes, I adjusted the levels in photoshop, as I said above- just as I do for just about every single picture I post. But I didn't make some kind of new background or anything like that. It's blue-black background taped to the back of the tank.

HD

 

[Tiffany]

fantastic photo. I saved it.
I'm not too handy with photo-shop, but Gen. Fracs. 2LE will convert the pic to any size, without quality loss, I've used it and a concerted a pic to poster size, and it works very well.

 

[fishfanatic2]

The algorithms in photoshop are pretty sophisticated- but not that sophisticated. I didn't "mess with the background," but I think the interpolative process adjusting coloration brightness and contrast sometimes produces some artifacts and effects you don't intend.

Whatever that means, it still looks great!

 

[Anonymous]

fantastic photo. I saved it.
I'm not too handy with photo-shop, but Gen. Fracs. 2LE will convert the pic to any size, without quality loss, I've used it and a concerted a pic to poster size, and it works very well.

Thanks. Welcome to RDO, Tiffany! I am not familiar with the tool you mentioned. But there is no such thing as making a picture larger than its pixels without some quality loss. It might not look bad, but it will not be as sharp as the resolution it was taken with.

Fishfanatic- photoshop (and all the other tools) interpolate pixels based on the surrounding pixels. When you adjust the contrast and brightness (or enlarge the image, etc.) it must decide what about a given pixel to change. That is based on the pixels around it.

I'm reading a book on it now, so I'm beginning to understand how this stuff works.

I am interested in taking an image that I shot and enlarging it like what Tiffany's talking about. Many of the local printshops don't make bigger than 8x10, but I'm going to try the classy photography shop.

 

[Tiffany]

I have scanned a postcard to poster size and it looks fantastic! See if you can find out more. I'll try send you more details if I can. I understand that you know more about Photo-shop than me, but it's a plug-in worth investigating.... :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Awesome. I don't know all that much about Photoshop, really- just trying to learn. I have not figured out plug-ins yet, so that shows ya how much I don't know! I'd be very interested in the details!

HD

 

[Tiffany]

This is the info from the intro. It's inexpensive at around $AUS85

"Genuine Fractals lets you turn small images into poster-sized prints or enlarge a photograph that has been heavily cropped, without sacrificing quality. Keep in mind that Genuine Fractals is a plug-in. It does not run as a stand-alone program: it appears in the menu system of any compatible graphics program. The program is officially a Photoshop plug-in, but many applications support this format (Paint Shop Pro 7, Photoshop Elements, Corel Photo-Paint)".
I hope that this is of some help.

 

[Len]

Thought you might like an "official" welcome, Tiffany

Genuine fractrals is a good program for upscaling. It's not competely lossless and has it's limitations, but generally it's better then PS's bicubic interpolation IME.

 

[Anonymous]

Awesome, thanks, Tiffany! I'll have to check it out.

 

[Tiffany]

Happy to help!
I hope you find it as useful as I have.