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

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?

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

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

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

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

2018-08-08 Thread Rick Strong
It is a great sunrise and kudos for being there and catching it. Ofnuts has pointed out some problems and one of the main ones I see is that it is not sharp at any resolution. Putting it on canvas will make it even less sharp. However, try a print on paper at 240 dpi for a 16 x 20 inch print.

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