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

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When and how much do you scale?

When and how much do you scale?

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

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When and how much do you scale?

At some point in your Editing process you'll have to decide if you're going to scale, and if so, when. Let's start off with When. For this series of images, I decided to scale before I took the image into Silver Efex Pro 2 for the black and white conversion. For most projects, you'll probably hear that it is best to scale at the very end, right before you can go to print. You will do all of your effects to the original image, and then scale it, and applies the final sharpening at the very end, and for most cases, that's probably the best idea. However, in this case, because I was going to be converting to black and white, and adding a whole lot of a grain and texture into the image, I decided that any artifacting that I might gain by scaling the image from one size to larger one I would probably be able to cover up once I added in the grain in Silver Efex Pro 2. Further, I didn't want the grain that I was going to be adding to end up getting scaled along with everything else. So, by…

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