While waiting for feedback on my probably too frequently posted issues, I wanted to put a little plug (not plugin) out there for OnOne software's new package for working with stills.
All of their stuff was originally designed to work with Photoshop, but their new 6.1 Suite can work standalone, with some caveats.
In our situation, we had a short deadline to put together a trailer I have been talking about here more or less endlessly, and this trailer includes multiple historic stills that we can only use for free at a truly crappy 72dpi, plus a bunch of new, hi resolution stills.....Both needed, in some instances, some fairly heavy zoom, pan and/or crop....in some instances this had to be animated.
Part of the OnOne suite is a program called Resize that utilizes fractal geometry to give you greater resolution. The effect on the 72dpi historical stuff is nothing less than stunning. By simply increasing the number of pixels in one dimension by a factor of 4, not only do the stills look absolutely fine in a hidef display on a 42 inch screen, but fairly extreme zooms look great, too......The effect on the modern hires stills was even more phenomenal.
Although it took us a minute to get the rules of the road straight on my computer (which does not yet have Photoshop on it), things ultimately worked quite well, and the OnOne folks were more than willing to give great phone support.
I bought the whole Suite, but Resize is available separately for not too much dough.
Simply increasing the size/res in Photoshop (on my partners computer) did not seem to yield results that were anywhere near as satisfying.
All of their stuff was originally designed to work with Photoshop, but their new 6.1 Suite can work standalone, with some caveats.
In our situation, we had a short deadline to put together a trailer I have been talking about here more or less endlessly, and this trailer includes multiple historic stills that we can only use for free at a truly crappy 72dpi, plus a bunch of new, hi resolution stills.....Both needed, in some instances, some fairly heavy zoom, pan and/or crop....in some instances this had to be animated.
Part of the OnOne suite is a program called Resize that utilizes fractal geometry to give you greater resolution. The effect on the 72dpi historical stuff is nothing less than stunning. By simply increasing the number of pixels in one dimension by a factor of 4, not only do the stills look absolutely fine in a hidef display on a 42 inch screen, but fairly extreme zooms look great, too......The effect on the modern hires stills was even more phenomenal.
Although it took us a minute to get the rules of the road straight on my computer (which does not yet have Photoshop on it), things ultimately worked quite well, and the OnOne folks were more than willing to give great phone support.
I bought the whole Suite, but Resize is available separately for not too much dough.
Simply increasing the size/res in Photoshop (on my partners computer) did not seem to yield results that were anywhere near as satisfying.