Resolution?
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- chossy
Alright you brainy bunch, I have a question for youse.
I do hundreds of frame grabs, lots of the time they are for print, every time people ask for them to be high res and always say 300 dpi. Now a grab from normal SD footage is always 72 dpi, is there a way I can make it 300dpi and or 'res it up', is there software around what does this, I have told them loads of times that I cannot do this......am I wrong.
- skt0
You can blow it up but it's never going to be great quality. There is software out there for this purpose. I'll see if I can find some links.
How things anyway boyo?
- chossy0
cheers buddy I'm ok man, really busy and what not but I am feeling pretty good, I'm all creative at the moment and am working on a font!!!, hows things down south matey? hope this finds you well and in good spirits, I got my print form mrD and it is quality, I didn't pop a bogey on yours.
- rasko40
people will direct you to an app called 'genuine fractals' thinking that this holds within its mighty code the amazing ability to fill in detail where before there was none. For it to work you need to have good files in the first place, to cut a long story short.
You can res them up in PS and do a bit of sharpening on duped layers and drop the opacity and stuff but you cant work magic. If the info is not there; its not there.
- chossy0
Thats the standard sentence I use on the phone rasko4 'I cannot put information there that does not exist'. Thanks for your help guys, I was juust getting concerned cause people that work in graphics departments ask me to res up things.
- kelpie0
In PS, increase the resolution to 360 dpi, using "nearest neighbour" resampling.
Then you can downsize to 300 and pixels will remain sharp. Thing is it's only useful for doing sites and such where you want to keep the pixels/lines etc sharp. No use for JPG style stuff. sorry, pointless advice for you probs Choss :(
- KILLputer0
genuine fractals is the closest your going to get. Read the documentation, I have had pretty decent success with it.
- agentfour0
if you want to keep pixel fonts and toolbars and stuff like that sharp then;
screen grab, open in p'shop, change to indexed colour, increase image size by 200% or 300%(has to be exact). change back to rgb.
voila!
this doesnt make images look nice however. they will need to be done separately.
- paraselene0
what's wrong with you, chossy? you can do it with magic. would you like to borrow my wizard's hat?
- MX_OnD0
shite in shite oot
as papaMX says.
- chossy0
ahh sorry when I say screen grabs I mean of video footage I have digitised. I don't think it can be done, as in export image from avid or fcut.
I would use my magic wand but I broke it last night. I over loaded it's flux capacitor apparently it doesn't like torsional forces.
- MX_OnD0
I've seen your screen grabs chossy, always when a fit burd wi' muckle cans appears on yer screen ye try tae grab they cans, is it.
- chossy0
yes yes I do
*nods slowly as I'd imagine I would in court when I finally have to answer to my molestation charges, ''
'' If anyone has been molested by me and or by anyone I truly am sorry and hope that my joke doesn't help fuel the sentence you might or might not wish me to undertake.
- MX_OnD0
*leans against the head juror's house and fiddles idly with his zippo
**narrows eyes, furrows brow.
"alright pal?"
- UndoUndo0
chossy when you send off prints for large scale banners you send the artwork at 1/4 size, they run it through some sort of software that sorts it out to look amazing at full size...so it can be done... but i dont know what its called...maybe a search in this direction would yield something???