Russo Loco Wrote:
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> And of course if you're making prints I assume
> you'll be using the original hi-res .tif file to begin
> with
. . .
Glenn Butcher Wrote:
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> You bet! This thread is all about rendering for
> NGDF
; rendering for any other purpose has it's
> own considerations about resolution, and also
> tone and color.
I'll drink to that, Glenn -
Like I said earlier, and giving ourselves the benefit of the doubt, apparently great minds do think more-or-less alike
: it's how well the end result satisfies the intended purpose that counts. With that in mind, here's one last look at the extremes, re-posted to allow side-by-side (or above and below) comparisons.
The original, slightly trimmed to 5120×3072 pixels, color & lighting adjusted,
compressed at jpg quality 46 to fit the NGDF at 2.399 MB
:
The same file as above, resized to 1024×683 pixels, 'unsharp masked' at 60%, r=1.5, t=2, compressed at jpg quality 50 to 0.253 MB
:
. . . and screen captures from the above files
as displayed by the NGDF, enlarged by a factor of five for comparison
:
As to which of the above is better, all I can say at this point is that
"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. (at 8:05 pm) To finish things off, here's one final quick ex-Sperry-ment — the full-size file after applying the 'unsharp mask' at 60%, r=7, t=2
and saving at jpg quality 35 to meet the NGDF upload size limit of 2.44 MB (2.394 MB here)
:
. . . and a screen-capture of the logo
as displayed immediately above by the NGDF, enlarged by a factor of five for comparison to the two posted previously.
So it's all a matter of preference and compromise — whatever was gained in one place by sharpening was lost elsewhere to more .jpg compression being needed (46 > 35) to meet the NGDF file size limit (as well as bandwidth challenges for those of us not having high-speed internet connections).
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/25/2021 12:57PM by Russo Loco.