Upsizing a image in CS2 ?

[guitarbug]

Has anyone submitted any photos to Alamy for stock sales ? They want the images to be 45MB, it says to interpolated them from Tiff but you need to upload as jpg wich will compress them ? I am confused (very easy) on how to upsize then convert to jpg and keep the final image file at 45MB ? Anyone dealing with Alamy that could help me out with thier post process from camera to Alamy upload ? Thanks.

[JohnT]

The is more of a suggestion than an answer. :-) You might want to consider Genuine Fractals, which upsizes images without any loss in quality. It's highly recommended by NAPP and Photoshop User Magazine.

http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2

[guitarbug]

Originally Posted by JohnT

The is more of a suggestion than an answer. :-) You might want to consider Genuine Fractals, which upsizes images without any loss in quality. It's highly recommended by NAPP and Photoshop User Magazine.

http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2

Thanks Jonh! Alamy suggest that to, but is it possible to do it in CS2 and get simular acceptable results ?

[TXhummer2]

Use "Search" in TPF for "sharpen smoother", select the post "16x20 and some noise". Tips there.

[Dobick]

This may or may not answer your original question (as I am not really sure what they are wanting) but:

kelby's books that I have read, suggest to upsize an image, that you can go to image size, and increase it by 110% each time, and do that over and over until you get to a resolution that you are looking for. So instead of increasing by pixels or by inches, you change the units to % and the amount to 110, and make sure that resampling is on. He went on to describe in detail why this works, but it does work surprisingly well.

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by Dobick

This may or may not answer your original question (as I am not really sure what they are wanting) but:

kelby's books that I have read, suggest to upsize an image, that you can go to image size, and increase it by 110% each time, and do that over and over until you get to a resolution that you are looking for. So instead of increasing by pixels or by inches, you change the units to % and the amount to 110, and make sure that resampling is on. He went on to describe in detail why this works, but it does work surprisingly well.

I have read that was a preferred method prior to CS2. Apparently, they changed the way the uprezing works which follows this method or similar.

Chris - It sounds to me like you should just do your post work on your RAW file in PS as a PSD or TIFF (which should be around 40+MB.. Then do the conversion they want, rather than working off a already compressed JPEG.

[Norma_S]

I've used Genuine Fractals for a large wall portrait and it work fantastic. Just tell it what size you want the final image to be and the resolution you want it and push the button. That's it. Quick and simple.

Norma

[AndrewCCM]

I like Genuine Fractals as well.. but to be honest, I don't uprez mine. I set the ratio and have the lab do the uprezing. Seems to work great for me...Haven't printed anything over 30x40 though..

[guitarbug]

Originally Posted by Dobick

This may or may not answer your original question (as I am not really sure what they are wanting) but:

kelby's books that I have read, suggest to upsize an image, that you can go to image size, and increase it by 110% each time, and do that over and over until you get to a resolution that you are looking for. So instead of increasing by pixels or by inches, you change the units to % and the amount to 110, and make sure that resampling is on. He went on to describe in detail why this works, but it does work surprisingly well.

I will give this a try!

Thanks Andrew, Harris, Kent & Norma! Hope I did not miss anyone ?