Tim.Ahrens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On 1 May, 03:57, Joe <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > For displaying then sure you may be able to reduce the size
but keep
> > quality acceptable for viewing, for printing you may be able to boost
the
> > pixel (using some trick *not* by increasing either W, H, or PPI) for
> > *little* better or larger print etc.. other than that we have to live
with
> > whatever the original may be.
>
> Sorry, I am not able to make any sense of that.
>
> I am a bit surprised that it is so difficult to explain what my
> concern is. To me it is only natural that you do not want to work with
> images that are at an unreasonably high resolution. Here
> "unreasonably" means that the resolution does not correspond to the
> actual sharpness of the image. I do not mean unreasonable in respect
> to the intended use. This is purely a matter of information
> processing. Even though we have pretty big hard drives and fast
> computers now, I believe it is wrong to have too much junk data on
> your system. If have an 8 megapixel image on my computer that I can
> downsample to 2 megapixels without a loss then I should definitely do
> so. This does not mean that the image is so blurry that it is totally
> useless, sharp 2 megapixels are quite useful and preferable over
> slightly blurred 8 megapixels.
Well, as I said I think it would require some type of magical wand to get
more (without loss) for less (reducing from 8MP to 2MP which is 1/4 of the
original). I and I don't think anyone really care what you want to do
with
your stuff, but *if* you want to hear the *difference* between
- 2MP vs 8MP
- 2MP without quality loss vs 8MP with blurry
- 2MP without quality loss vs the original blurry 8MP
.. and so on, then it won't be what you want to do with your 2MP images,
but what other thinks about the RESULT. And I don't think people care
much
about how big your hard drive is (my 3 internal and 2 external drives give
me 2.5TB here) or how you store your images. I have hundreds of thousands
of hi-rez images (tens of thousands of RAW, Original, and Retouched
consider
single image).
Hahaha and don't ask me why I keep the RAW and Original JPG with the
final
retouched images. And just incase some may ask why RAW + Original JPG ..
well, because I still don't have totally trust on RAW file and RAW
converter
yet to discard the original JPG.
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