Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list
On 2018-08-15 15:14, nickib wrote: > Wow - the revision you created is beautiful! Honestly I don’t understand most > of your explanation but the end product would be perfect! Bottom line - how > large - realistically- could that be made and still look good? With my version, *as is*, I wouldn't

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-16 Thread nickib
>The more I look at the "lightroom version", the less I like it. For >me, >the orange is oversaturated; I preferred the softer, more "pastel" >look >of the original. Also, the dock is so dark in the original that trying >to recover any detail there doesn't look particularly good to my eye,

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list
On 2018-08-13 15:01, nickib wrote: >> You might be going about this all wrong. If you really want to use >> this to produce a very large physical print, I would consider >> embracing that the original image is smudgy by upsampling it (maybe >> to 7200x3600 if not 14400x7200 after cropping it to

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list
On 2018-08-13 15:43, Ofnuts wrote: > On 08/13/18 20:31, Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list wrote: >> Also, make sure you save the result at least as a JPEG with 98% to 100% >> quality, if not PNG. > > I second the idea to hide the defects with some heavy "artistic" > filtering, but 98% quality?

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread nickib
>I'm not sure I'd go even that big. The original was twice that >resolution and had a lot less JPEG artifacting. > >Actually... you might be going about this all wrong. If you really >want >to use this to produce a very large physical print, I would consider >embracing that the original image is

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread gstalnaker
>I'm not sure I'd go even that big. The original was twice that >resolution and had a lot less JPEG artifacting. > >Actually... you might be going about this all wrong. If you really >want >to use this to produce a very large physical print, I would consider >embracing that the original image is

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Ken Moffat via gimp-user-list
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:31:37PM -0400, Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list wrote: > On 2018-08-13 13:09, Partha Bagchi via gimp-user-list wrote: > > The image is 2048x1536 (3.1 MP). Best you can hope for is an 8 by 10. > > That's inches. If you are willing to sacrifice quality further you can

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/13/18 20:31, Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list wrote: On 2018-08-13 13:09, Partha Bagchi via gimp-user-list wrote: The image is 2048x1536 (3.1 MP). Best you can hope for is an 8 by 10. That's inches. If you are willing to sacrifice quality further you can try printing in 150dpi which

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list
On 2018-08-13 13:09, Partha Bagchi via gimp-user-list wrote: > The image is 2048x1536 (3.1 MP). Best you can hope for is an 8 by 10. > That's inches. If you are willing to sacrifice quality further you can try > printing in 150dpi which would give you 14 by 10. I'm not sure I'd go even that big.

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread gstalnaker
>Here is one that was taken from my camera and edited in Lightroom. I >have no idea how large this would be able to be printed. Do you? Is >there anywhere online I can submit several pictures to see how large >they can be made without losing quality? I really want to use this >picture somehow!

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Ken Moffat via gimp-user-list
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 06:39:15PM +0100, Ken Moffat via gimp-user-list wrote: > > As to Nick's question - the "things" in the middle of the pier > (bump-stops?) are probably the limiting factor, together with how > close you are when you view it. I forgot to say that I was looking at an

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Ken Moffat via gimp-user-list
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 01:00:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 August 2018 18:21:33 nickib wrote: > > > >I had a friend play with both the iPhone images and the camera images > > >using Lightroom. Would it be ok if I uploaded both the RAW (KDC) > > >images and the ones she edited to

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 August 2018 18:21:33 nickib wrote: > >I had a friend play with both the iPhone images and the camera images > >using Lightroom. Would it be ok if I uploaded both the RAW (KDC) > >images and the ones she edited to get a better idea of what > >enlargement IS possible? I’m at the point

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread Partha Bagchi via gimp-user-list
The image is 2048x1536 (3.1 MP). Best you can hope for is an 8 by 10. That's inches. If you are willing to sacrifice quality further you can try printing in 150dpi which would give you 14 by 10. On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:42 PM nickib wrote: > >I had a friend play with both the iPhone images

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-13 Thread nickib
>I had a friend play with both the iPhone images and the camera images >using Lightroom. Would it be ok if I uploaded both the RAW (KDC) >images and the ones she edited to get a better idea of what >enlargement IS possible? I’m at the point where even if I cannot use >it for the 48x24 size it’s

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-10 Thread nickib
>Your camera likely does better pictures, but its default settings may >be >more neutral than those of your smartphone. > >Typically smartphones aim for flashy pictures, and their software will >go to great lengths to achieve this. But this also makes further >editing >of the picture very

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-10 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/09/18 03:17, nickib wrote: Sorry but no, or you have a very shitty camera. - Halos on the edges of the pillars and the bottom of the roofs of the pagodas, likely some kind of sharpening. - The roof slopes seem to be made of lace. - Railings and antennas are blurry (motion blur? the pic

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-09 Thread nickib
>Sorry but no, or you have a very shitty camera. > >- Halos on the edges of the pillars and the bottom of the roofs of the >pagodas, likely some kind of sharpening. > >- The roof slopes seem to be made of lace. > >- Railings and antennas are blurry (motion blur? the pic was shot at >1/50s but the

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-09 Thread nickib
>Print size? 48"x 24" is a bit of a funny size. My print co. uses 24"x >20" or 30" x 20" for laser colour printing which might be better size. > >However, back to the question. > >First thing, Gimp is a raster editor and works in pixels which have >little to do with physical size *until* you come

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-08 Thread Rick Strong
From: nickib Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2018 11:02 PM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Cc: notificati...@gimpusers.com Subject: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image ... If 48x24 is not an option, I at least need to know realistically the largest I can go and keep the integrity

Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-08 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/08/18 05:02, nickib wrote: only the picture on my iPhone is better than what I got on my camera Sorry but no, or you have a very shitty camera. - Halos on the edges  of the pillars and the bottom of the roofs of the  pagodas, likely some kind of sharpening. - The roof slopes seem to

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-08 Thread nickib
So I took this fabulous picture of a sunrise - only the picture on my iPhone is better than what I got on my camera (which I REALLY need to learn how to use!) and I want to have it enlarged on canvas to 48" wide by 24" tall. The only problem is I can NOT get a good enough quality image to have a

[Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

2018-08-08 Thread rich404
>So I took this fabulous picture of a sunrise - only the picture on my >iPhone is better than what I got on my camera (which I REALLY need to >learn how to use!) and I want to have it enlarged on canvas to 48" >wide by 24" tall. The only problem is I can NOT get a good enough >quality image to