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
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
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.
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.
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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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 ...
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.
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? :-)