Thanks, my source image is jpg format and i don't have control over it. The
lanczos performs very badly on it so i guess there is no solution to my
problem.
Thanks again.

On 9/4/07, Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Fred Weinhaus on  wrote...
> | >Hi Fred,
> | >Do you know how 2 / have a script to fix quality of a jpg image after
> it's
> | >being enlarged (e.g. resizing a 100x100 image to 400x400) ?
> | >Thanks,
> | >S.
> |
> |
> | Hello S.
> |
> | Sorry, but I am not sure what problem you are having. When you have a
> | jpg image, it has already lost some quality, which cannot generally
> | be recovered. When you resize it, you lose some more quality
> | depending upon which filter option you have used. If you resize it to
> | another jpg, you lose even more quality depending upon the quality
> | setting. The best you can do is start with a non-compressed image
> | format, such as png. (It does not help at this point to convert from
> | your jpg to png, you need an original uncompressed image). Then when
> | you resize, use -filter lanczos (which I believe is the default), but
> | make the output format png or some other non-compressed image format.
> |
> | That is the best that I can do to help. I know of no way to get back
> | the losses from a jpg compressed image.
> |
> |
> Fred is perfectly correct.
>
> I would add however that if the JPEG image is from a digital camera
> you preserve and archive the exact original file from that camera.
> And always process the image from that original image,  if posible.
>
> If you need to save intermediate images, use PNG or the IM internal MIFF
> format to prevent data loss.  MIFF can save images at a even higher
> 'bit quality'.
>
> MIFF format is however not compressed by default so if disk space is
> important, save images to "image.miff.gz"  IM will invoke the gzip
> compressor automatically, and can read such a file too.
>
> PNG is my recomendation.  You can also use Glenn Randers-Pehrson's
> program "pngcrush" to compress PNG files optimially without data loss.
>
> A newer version is "optipng".
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