From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture

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Comparing scaling methods

Comparing scaling methods

From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture

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Comparing scaling methods

When it comes time to scale your image, you have several choices of how you can do it. We'll explore a few of the options here, but ultimately, the choice that you make really depends on the image itself. One image may scale better with one algorithm, and another may scale better with another. So, if you have the tools at your disposal, the best thing you can do is simply compare them. Of course, you may not have all these tools that I'm about to display on your computer, so you may just have to work with what you have, but let's take a look at a few different options. First we'll start off by simply using Aperture. Many people don't realize this, but from within Aperture, you can actually export out and scale up at the same time. We all know that you can use the Image Export presets to scale down to any particular size, but you can also scale up. In this case, remember that we want to make a 9000 x 6000 pixel image, and we want to make that as a 16-bit TIFF. To create new preset…

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