Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Oct 14 06:52:33 2004

The only ones I use are

Liquify
Blur (Gaussian and Lens)
Noise
Render (lens flare)
Sharpen

All the rest is for those who never surpassed the kitchen-home- and garden
level of arts. Which has my respect, but is not my cup of tea.
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> From: "Greg Locke" <locke@straylight.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:15:11 -0230
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
> 
>> 
>> I don't think enlarging something at 556% will ever work.
>> That's about 5 new pixels per existing pixel.
>> If this techinque would give acceptable results, we could al
>> go and download the low res files from stock agencies and
>> scale them up to the desired size.
>> 
>> You can always use one of the artistic filters to render it
>> attractive ;-)
>> ---
> 
> Fair enough. ...I'll try 200%
> 
> New Topic!  Does anyone actually use those stupid pilters in PS?? :^)
> The local daily has a "artist" who uses them with "photo-illustrations" as 
> a
> replacement for real photos and its become a laughing stock.
> 
> Looks like stuff my 4 year old brings home for the fridge.
> 
> Greg Locke
> St. John's, Newfoundland.
> 
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