Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My take after giving PS Enhance a try is that it is awkward to use and gives you little control. I don?t like that you need to be in raw to use it. I go to Gigapixel and Sharpen at the end of my work stream, then I can use it at the strength I need it. Enhance needs some enhancement. SonC On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:35 PM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I could not see the difference in the gallery. > > BUT THEN! I downloaded the images and blew them up a bunch! Gigapixel just > absolutely astonished me! By far superior. > > ric > > > > On Jun 28, 2021, at 8:37 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at > > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > > Howard. When I look at these I have to admit to myself that the Q2 w/o > any enhancement looks best to my eye. The PS Enhance does not look too > bad, but the Gigapixle seems way overdone. Edge artifacts make it look > pushed too much. Especially between the sky and rocks and the details > along the light/dark edges on the rocks. Maybe you pushed the sliders a > bit too much? I would try a more modest attack with Gigapixle. > > > > Just my 2 cents worth, but i see it is not in agreement with the other > comments I have read as far out as the digest goes. > > > > Aram > > > > On 6/28/2021 8:30 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote: > >> I have two reasons for wanting to post just now. One is my recent trip > to Iceland, a maiden voyage for my new Q2. The other is the recent > availability of PS Enhance and Topaz Gigapixel AI. The two themes fit > together nicely because up-res?ing could be a key to making the single-FL, > high-Mpx Q2 even more versatile, by increasing the effective FL that can be > realized from cropping and enlarging. I speculated that state-of-the-art > up-res?ing by a factor of 2 might allow for decent prints (or viewing on a > monitor) in the 25?-wide range of down to 25% crops (equivalent to FL > 112mm). This is well past the Q?s ?digital zoom? limit of 75mm, which of > course isn?t anything but a built-in crop since it (properly) doesn?t > involve any image manipulation. > >> > >> I?ll be posting an album of images from Iceland soon, as well as my > impressions of the Q2. Here?s a first one, with a 117mm-equiv. 24% crop > presented natively, after PS Enhance, and after Gigapixel. (I was aiming > for a 25% crop, but this is where I landed.) > >> > >> I?d welcome comments on the results themselves as well as your takes on > the comparison of the two methods of up-res?ing. > >> > >> > >> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756 > < > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756 > > > >> > >> > >> ?howard > >> > >> > > -- > > Aram Langhans > > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin > himself would ever have dared dream.? > > James D. Watson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA