Hi Steven, Sorry that my reply is getting a bit messy but outlook on windows isn't very well in quoting text...
To get the latest version depends on your distribution. You can get the source tarball and compile, fetching any updated dependancies yourself. But a distribution like Debian is likely to have packages already built and available as part of 'unstable'. Btw, since your images are scanned from film, perhaps they are already somewhat noisy? Did you try to reduce noise, or perhaps increase sharpness / reduce blur / etc, before scaling the image? Just a thought - but it seems to me that (down)scaling a noisy image will give worse results than downscaling a cleaner image. Another option would be to try scaling the images with imagemagick. It might already have lanczos scaling and other scaling options built-in with the version installed (or installable as pre-built package) with your distribution. You can even write a small shell-script to scale all images in some directory, if that's your thing. Luck, --Tim -----Original Message----- From: steven woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 12 april 2006 10:18 To: Leeuw van der, Tim Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How to prevent downsampling from bluring my image On 4/12/06, Leeuw van der, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > > What kind of interpolation do you use when rescaling the image to a > smaller size? (And what version of GIMP do you use?) i was using Linera interpolation. GIMP version seems 2.2.x on Linux > > GIMP 2.3.x added a new kind of interpolation, Lanczos I believe it's > called, which is said to work better; both for upscaling and > downscaling. Binaries of GIMP 2.3.7 are available for windows, but if > you don't use windows, then I don't know how you would best get binaries > for your platform. i think i can download source tarball and do a compile/install, right? > > Cheers, > > --Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steven > woody > Sent: woensdag 12 april 2006 10:00 > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: [Gimp-user] How to prevent downsampling from bluring my image > > hi, > > i found any downsampling ( scale image to a smaller size ) will > definitely blur the image ( scaned from film ) to an undesired degree. > is there any suggestion around that? using a unsharp-mask after > every downsampling ? > > -- > woody > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > -- woody _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
