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::jeenie11
02/12/08 4:45 PM GMT
up until the other day, i had been using genuine fractals 4.0 (happily, i might add). i am using a mac book pro. i was convinced (hmmmmm) that cs3 would work much better on it. having downloading the beta of cs3 i had great difficulty doing the actual installation of the (now in a package) cs3 program. i had the computer wiped and of course it then installed beautifully. the only bad thing is i've lost most of my purchased plugins. i tried upgrading GF 4.0 but since the original program is no longer on my machine it won't work. any suggestions of what i might do (besides buying GF 5.0 for a whopping $159.? is there another program which allows you to resize as well. do you think cs3 allows you to do it well enough. when i download from my 5D the picture shows up as 60,667 inches by 40,444 inches with a resolution of 72dpi. for this group i've tried to use a different dpi and fractals has been great for it. hopefully, one of you super bright people will be able to help me on this one. thanks, jen
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+philcUK
02/12/08 7:23 PM GMT
if you purchased it direct from Onone or lizardtech, their customer support would have a record of your purchase/serial etc i'd guess. as for the image size itself - i've no idea why they are that big - that is something going wrong on import perhaps in your settings - no camera is capable of generating a pixel resolution like that
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::jeenie11
02/12/08 7:26 PM GMT
oops! i must sound like a total idiot. 60.667 by 40.444 inches.

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+philcUK
02/12/08 7:35 PM GMT
ah... :-) until you get GF sorted then, id use the Bicubic sharper scaling algorithm in Photoshop or get in touch with the Fred Miranda folks and see if their Resize Pro plugin for the 5D is ported to CS3 yet.
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::jeenie11
02/12/08 8:03 PM GMT
is the Bicubic sharper scaling algorithm the thing you find under image....image size. then do you just change the numbers. usually what i do is just change the dimensions (or crop) to 17.06x11.333 and use 300 as my dpi. then i save and then i do whatever and finally resize to 2600x1950 which makes it uploadable to caedes. i'm hoping that some of this makes sense. thanks.
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+philcUK
02/12/08 8:49 PM GMT
yes the drop down menu is it at the base of the image size dialogue. try not to repeatedly resize the image as every subsequent action degrades the data slightly. set your new size and resolution in the same hit and then crop afterward if need be.
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::jeenie11
02/12/08 8:52 PM GMT
thanks so much! i knew you'd help! jen
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+philcUK
02/12/08 8:59 PM GMT
your welcome
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noahnott
02/13/08 12:03 AM GMT
Ah, just to clarify one thing:

bicubic sharper if you decrease the resolution.
bicubic smoother if you increase the resolution.
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::jeenie11
02/13/08 12:16 AM GMT
hmmmmmm. being a bit lacking, i believe you but have no idea what it means.
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+KEIFER
02/13/08 12:24 AM GMT
(*beams proudly*) .. that's our little Noah .. he's going off, into the world, on his own now .. we can no longer tell him to "be home by 9PM" .. or to .. "Eat his Vegetables" .. we can just hope our guidance sunk in, while he was under our care



In Photoshop's resize dialog, there is a drop down menu that defaults to "Bicubic" .. but there are other options, such as those mentioned by Noah, hidden in this menu

Bicubic Sharper .. will .. what's the word I'm looking for? .. oh, yes .. Sharpen while it resizes your image ... as Noah suggests, during a downward resizing, your image might lose some sharpness

Bicubic Smooth .. will apply a slight median filter to reduce the pixelization that may have appeared during a upward resizing


you could also look into .. Vectorizing your image for scalability ...
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::jeenie11
02/13/08 2:21 AM GMT
aw! come on. all i want to do is make the photo smaller. you're making me think it's hard to do.....when in reality i've been doing it for the 2 years i've been in the group.
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+philcUK
02/13/08 2:16 PM GMT
no it's not hard to do :-) I thought i'd covered all that - make photo smaller as per original question = bicubic sharper - did I miss some subtle rocket science equation that needed further clarification? :-)
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::jeenie11
02/13/08 3:47 PM GMT
no phil you covered it beautifully........ i was responding to keith's and noah's comments,
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+philcUK
02/13/08 7:01 PM GMT
so was I :-)
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noahnott
02/13/08 11:45 PM GMT
I do my best to confuse people. :)
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