| Extensis pxl SmartScale | |
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Photo Example
Bee increased 500%
Original size: 651x537
Resized: 3255x2685
Printed at 300 ppi.
Note: Speed was reasonable (under a minute) for this image on a AMD Athlon 2700 with 1 GB RAM (Windows XP). Speed degrades significantly as you get into higher increases. I used 500% in my examples because I felt that this was the average amount most users would be likely to use. When I attempted the maximum increase of 1600% on a 2 megapixel image, I was told that 1100% was the maximum the image could be resized with my available RAM. I dropped down to 1000% and ended up cancelling the operation after watching the status bar creep along for several minutes. Closing programs may have enabled the higher increase and faster processing.
SmartScale Settings:
- Sharpness: Normal
- Contrast: High
- Detail: Low
- Extreme: Off
The printed bee
image is a small portion of the original. Click
here to see the original photo before resampling.
The image
below is a scan of the printed results. In person, the SmartScale image has
slightly more detail. Click
the image to see the full-size on-screen results of SmartScale compared to Photoshop.
This is a large image: 1.5 MB.
Logo Example
Logo increased
500%
Original size: 150x59
Resized: 750x295
SmartScale settings:
- Sharpness: Smoother
- Contrast: High
- Detail: High
- Extreme: On
Original before resampling.
On-screen results at full size are shown. Printed results were similar with ragged edges in the SmartScale example, but sharper compared to Photoshop.
