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Enlarging digital images--- example and explaination

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Doug MacDonald - 29 Jan 2007 09:39 GMT
Poster prints (and larger) with resolution and clarity equal to the
original:

6.3 Megapixel images will usually go to 24" x 32" (36" APS size) and way,
way larger if you care to introduce a "viewing distance" equal to the
distance from the image, needed to view all the image without moving your
head.

For a couple of years now I've endured taunts, ridicule and personal
vilification from a few narrow minded people who thought they knew it all...
How could most of them? The basis for me providing samples and confirmation
for investigation was QUALIFICATIONS TO PASS JUDGMENT. All but one, never
had any. When I posted how I had enlarged a miniscule (less than 400k) image
into a two meter wide poster for a newspaper office, the nature of my
detractors became obvious... I set them up and they took the bait...

So... I have in the past made statements like:
"Enlarge from a postcard size image to a poster"
"Up to 1000% enlargement"
"Add data to an image to enlarge it"

All perfectly true and ridiculed by zealots looking for recognition they
have no right seeking in the first place. Why? Because they have no training
or education which may qualify them to make contradictory statements.
Nothing qualifies them for slander and defamation.

I have been able to, and founded a hugely viable business, on enlarging
digital images using the mathematics of Interpolation. Until now I have
chosen to protect my industrial secrets and formulas by refusing to provide
enlarged digital images or pixel level crops of enlarged images to anyone
for examination... Until now.

I really would have thought some of the people posting contradiction would
have discovered by now, they are wrong... Not so, it seems.

So maybe today the disbelievers and pundits will be satisfied. Probably not
knowing their form. At least today they get their wish. A full pixel crop of
an enlarged image. The process has developed enough I now leave no
information in the files which they could use.

I have provided an example image which I enlarged to poster size and a full
pixel crop of part of the ENLARGED image to demonstrate that not only is it
possible but possible at virtually zero loss of sharpness and detail in the
final image.

http://canvas.photosbydouglas.com/interpolation.htm

You may also be interested in this meter high enlargement from a Canon 20D
image. http://www.photosbydouglas.com/fun/tryptich-surfers.jpg The lady's
smile is due to a sell out exhibition.

Use the link at the bottom of the text on that page to take you to the
actual examples and explanation. Anyone who wants to have the original
(un-enlarged) image only needs to ask me without aggression or taunts and
I'll supply it as an attachment to an email only to a valid domain address
(no hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail).
Signature

From Douglas...
Wedding and Portrait specialist: http://www.photosbydouglas.com
Canvas prints and Digital enlargements: http://www.canvasphotos.com.au
Wedding Photography anywhere on the east coast of Australia.

Jeff R. - 29 Jan 2007 11:16 GMT
> http://canvas.photosbydouglas.com/interpolation.htm

Just a big blank grey box in my browser(s)

?

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Jeff R.
Doug MacDonald - 29 Jan 2007 21:26 GMT
: > http://canvas.photosbydouglas.com/interpolation.htm
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: Jeff R.

Someone else in another group said the same thing. I don't have a problem in
IE or Mozilla using Bigpond or my laptop via a mobile phone modem. It works
too with my Linux system via satellite at my home on Moreton Island.

The site is hosted in the USA... Maybe Optus (who are using a transparent
proxy server) are blocking my host's entire IP range? This happens
sometimes. Godaddy probably host porn sites so it would not be unreasonable
to think they could get blocked entirely.

Try this link which is in another part of the US on a different backbone:
http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/interpolation.htm

If it doesn't work, I'd appreciate you letting me know.

Douglas
Jeff R. - 30 Jan 2007 07:35 GMT
> Try this link which is in another part of the US on a different backbone:
> http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/interpolation.htm
>
> If it doesn't work, I'd appreciate you letting me know.
>
> Douglas

OK. That works now.

Specifically:
http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/enlarge-example.htm
and
http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/example-clip.htm

(the gulls and the detail from same)  now appear OK.  The page (text) loads
fast, there is a short but noticeable pause, then the images appear.
Previously both yielded only a blank (the "empty" transparent gif you're
using to stymie copying) and the png images never appeared.

I'm using Firefox, but the same thing happened in IE6.

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Jeff R.
Doug MacDonald - 30 Jan 2007 09:50 GMT
: > Try this link which is in another part of the US on a different backbone:

http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/interpolation.htm

: > If it doesn't work, I'd appreciate you letting me know.
: >
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:
: Specifically:

http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/enlarge-example.htm
: and
: http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/canvas/html/example-clip.htm
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: --
: Jeff R.

Thanks Jeff. I gave up on the gif blind. Anyone who intends to steal my
image won't be stopped by that subterfuge. Basically I figured I simply
wouldn't post anything of commercial value to me and so far it's working
fine. That site is on a fast link owned by mydomain.com who I wholeheartedly
recommend to anyone needing a cheap, fast server and stuff all customer
support!

Thanks again.
Douglas
Avery - 30 Jan 2007 11:13 GMT
>Poster prints (and larger) with resolution and clarity equal to the
>original:
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>I'll supply it as an attachment to an email only to a valid domain address
>(no hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail).

Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
me 3  or more months ago.
Doug MacDonald - 30 Jan 2007 20:32 GMT
: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
: me 3  or more months ago.

Come on Avery... Don't become another Mark Thomas. The rules are plain
enough. A Street address and qualifications... That's all I ask.

Douglas
Avery - 30 Jan 2007 21:37 GMT
>: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
>: me 3  or more months ago.
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>
>Douglas

I sent you all that through your website months ago.  You offered, in
this group, to send samples to anyone that requested them. I have had
no response except fot rather pathetic excuses whenever I have
prompted you. This is just another.

You don't deliver.
Doug MacDonald - 30 Jan 2007 21:50 GMT
: >: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
: >: me 3  or more months ago.
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:
: You don't deliver.
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So send it all again by using the "reply to sender" option of your reader
and you'll have it within a week. I'm not the perfect organiser I'd like to
be but I do try to keep up with orders and requests from people... Sometimes
the form mail on my web sites breaks, sometimes I stuff up, sometimes the
text reader which separates spam from legitimate mail doesn't like stuff in
the headers and spits it out.

There has obviously been a stuff up with your request and I'll rectify it.

Regardless of what you choose to think and say publicly, something must not
have fitted with your original request or you'd have gotten it. What it was
that didn't fit is irrelevant now. Send me your details and I send you the
package.

Douglas
Pete D - 31 Jan 2007 07:26 GMT
> : >: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
> : >: me 3  or more months ago.
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>
> Douglas

LOL!
Doug MacDonald - 31 Jan 2007 21:25 GMT
: >: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
: >: me 3  or more months ago.
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:
: You don't deliver.
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There's a funny thing, isn't it Avery...
I'll be buggered if I can find your request in today's orders yet, yesterday
you flamed me big time for not sending you an info pack. The email address
attached to this message is a real one. All you need to do is hit the "reply
to sender" button to send me your name, address and ABN details and you'll
get the stuff.

You must be on-line because you posted in other groups. What's going on
mate?  Do you want the samples or not? If you don't will you please stop
attacking me the way you are?

Douglas
Avery - 01 Feb 2007 05:38 GMT
>: >: Jeez Doug, I am still waiting on the samples you promised to post to
>: >: me 3  or more months ago.
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>
>Douglas

I may have been in other groups, but I had not been back here.

I have sent the information to your yahoo address.
Doug MacDonald - 01 Feb 2007 05:51 GMT
: >You must be on-line because you posted in other groups. What's going on
: >mate?  Do you want the samples or not? If you don't will you please stop
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:
: I have sent the information to your yahoo address.

Look for the mailman next week!
 
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