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by momoffduty » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:36 am
The last several projects have presented a problem with the low res photos from phones & FB. My daughter's phone has 3 photo sizes to choose from and the largest is around 2,000x ?. Not everyone has their setting this high.
For the projects I was given CDs of photos and by chance on the first project checked the file sizes. In PrEl organizer all the photos looked good. After trial & error, I organized the photos by small and large for each tag. Usually I sort photos in segments for a project so now the photos have 2 folders for each segment. Only resized the larger photos.
In AE the small file doesn't matter so much since they aren't full screen. But, in PrPro I couldn't pan & zoom into them. To work around that I used motion backgrounds and smaller photos w/pan&zoom.
What would be a good way to upscale? Think there was a discussion about up sizing awhile back, but couldn't find it.
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by Bobby » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:58 am
No free lunch here - GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.
A friend who returned from an Italy trip recently remarked at how people would spend thousands (or tens of thousands) to take the trip and then use a cell phone camera to capture their memories in full low-res!
I suppose somebody will come along and recommend xyz or fractal whatever, but upscaling is tough. Sorry to be negative...
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by momoffduty » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:03 am
I agree Bobby. Someone wanted me to pull their FB photos and I explained the low rez and said I needed them on a CD or if printed would scan. Things got lost in translation, so they printed their photos from FB to Walg or WalM and gave them to me for scanning.
I noticed a trend that photos are put on FB, but deleted from their hard drive.
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by Chuck Engels » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:14 am
Upscaling can only go so far and maintain decent quality. Upscaling in small steps seems to be the best way, say 10% at a time. Upscale 10%, then save the file and do it again. This seems to provide a better quality than just going to 100% of the size you are trying to achieve. This tutorial is pretty good http://www.depiction.net/tutorials/phot ... images.php
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by momoffduty » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:23 pm
Thanks Chuck, bookmarked! I am sure I will run into this problem again.
I know someone who has all of his photos on Flickr. Isn't this the same problem, low rez? Does that site store larger files?
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