Some time ago, I asked SLUG for help in expanding a photograph to act as
background for the desktop. Several people responded (for which many
thanks), suggesting different methods.

It occurred to me that it might be a useful exercise to attempt *all*
methods and post the results on SLUG, probably as attachments.

The photograph is of a tree in a hazy rainforest (ie, a tough subject).
It's a jpeg file and is not available in a larger resolution. The methods
thus far are:---

1. pnmscale 2 pipe jpeg in and jpeg out.

2. greycstoration program (at www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration)

3. set the image to stretch in the wallpaper setting.

4. import it to Gimp and try each of the resampling/enlarging methods.

5. convert the photograph to vector format, "then anything goes".

6. xsetroot

7. jpegtopnm x.jpeg | pnmscale 1.6 | pnmto xmp, followed by pnmsmooth

8. as fpr 7. but use mogrify

9. as for 7. but use convert from the Imagemagick suite, eg.,

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