ok. thank you for your information and i will try it. On 4/12/06, Leeuw van der, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > I'm by no means an expert on image manipulation. If experts recommend to > do despeckle as last step, then perhaps that might be best. > My logic was that a noisy image would be harder to scale right because > the noise could introduce more artifacts. But I could be wrong -- I > don't have that much experience, and don't have time now to do the > experiments. (Would first need to search for a suitable photo...). > However, I thought that if you already have a number of photos at hand > to experiment with, then it might be a quick experiment for you to first > reduce noise in the image, then perhaps sharpen it, and then scale it. > > > About quality of ImageMagik vs. GIMP, I have no idea. I never made a > detailed comparison of the two in quality of scaled image. > I did make a comparison of scaling of ImageMagik and PIL (Python Imaging > Library) and found them to be comparable for the photos I needed to > rescale at that point; after which I wrote my script in Python using PIL > to scale down (without any further enhancements) a full copy of all > images from my digital camera to fit my screen. But, as I said, they're > images from a digital camera and not from a scanner. And I didn't care > if a single image would come out with poor quality; it was a massive > batch operation. > At that point I had already given up on writing a GIMP script to perform > this operation in batch so I didn't compare the quality of GIMP scaling > with the others. > > > Cheers, > > --Tim > >
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