Hey guys got another question here. I was interested in resizing, and maybe even clearing up some photos of coins I've seen on ebay to get a better view of the coins. I've seen a few times on here people have resize a photo and make it look much better. Any specific programs you use. Thank you, Mike
Most people play around with Photoshop. I've got it and figure I'll be about 150 years old before I can use that one. There are tons of photo programs out there. Many are free by downloading. I use one called Photoworks. The company that made that one is gone now. I also use Microsoft Picture It, Digital Image Pro I used to have one called Dark Room but it was for Windows 98 and when I upgraded to XP it no longer works. Not sure but some tell me you can use Nero to do those things but I only use that one to make copies of CD's I also have Coral Photo Album 6. That one came free when I purchased a Compact Flash Card for my cameras. I also have MGI Photo Suite SE and find it is one of the easiest for people like me to use. I'm sure there are many others available. Probably go to Google and just type in Digital Photo Programs. There is a forum for electronic stuff called the www.avsforum.com Hopefully that is the correct address. It is mostly about TV's, Radio, Digital conversions, cameras and on and on and on. Well over 500,000 members. You might want to go there and see if any of those electronic peopel know anything.
I would find it VERY interesting if someone could continually take an image, resize it to 200% and make it look good. Everytime I try it starts to pixelate.
I STRONGLY recomend www.paint.net it's free and super easy to use. When you download it ... ctr + r will let you resize it.
That's because you start off with pics that are too small to begin with. To get quality pics you need to take them with high resolution and save them in a non-degrading file type like a .tif file. This means you have a very large pic, but then you crop and resize (shrink the pic in other words) until you have a manageable size, and then save it as a .jpg file. If this proceedure is followed the pics can be blown up to 400% without pixilation.
http://www.gimp.org That is the gold standard. You'll want to convert the image from a JPG to a TIF, BMP, or PNG file first before manipulating it. Ruben
True, but even a lossless format (.png?) has an upper limit. If you collect at 1200 dpi, then anything above 1:1 is going to pixelate. But I think my neighbor has some s/w that somehow does pixel smoothing(?)/averaging(?) so that he CAN go above the upper limit. But there's GOT to be something lost when you do that (sharpness?) You can't get something for nothing (unless you buy from China.)
the thing about the lousey formats like JPG, the distortion is more than pixelation. Even if you just resave the file at the same size using that algorithm, with ever pass you lose image fidelity, like an analog casset tape. Ruben
I wrote the following in a few minutes using php. http://cointrends.org/ebay_enlarge.php?ebay=320331227915 It takes an ebay auction id number and returns the original and enlarged/sharpened main pic
This works well. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx Go to imageResizer on right side. Once downloaded you can right click on a picture and look for the option to resize the picture. Hope this helps.
I swear by Irfanview. It is powerful yet easy to use. And it is free. You should be able to download it here.
