perfect resize 7.5

[xAGENTxMULDERx]

i understand what this mainly is about BUT can i use it to zoom in on things in my photos? i dont have the best zoom lens money can buy and i find myself zooming in digitally a lot, like recently i had a picture of a bumble bee but zoomed in as much as i wanted it became fuzzy, but not too much.

would using this make that bee look as clear as if i had used a bigger zoom lens? or is this program used only for printing

 

[Buckster]

would using this make that bee look as clear as if i had used a bigger zoom lens?

In a word, no.

I've been using it for years, and it works really well for what it's intended to do, which is to resize and maintain a fairly good visual representation of the image it's working with.

But there's no software on Earth (yet) that can create accurate visual information out of thin air. When you zoom in on the bee using ANY software, you get to the point where you're looking at individual pixels, and that's all ANY software will see and be able to work with, including Perfect Resize. When you resize the image, there are basically holes to be filled where the pixels have pulled apart from each other, and software decides what it should use to fill in those gaps. It doesn't know it's looking at a bee though. It will fill in the gaps with colored pixels based on the color of the pixels around the gap that pulled away and an algorithm that it thinks is best to use. Perfect Resize supposedly uses an algorithm that uses fractals to achieve this, which is said to be better than say, using just the same color of the nearest pixel, or a blend of the two nearest pixels or a blend of all the pixels that surround the gap to be filled.

Bottom line: There's no magic bullet to replace a good lens. If there was, nobody would bother with paying out the nose for good lenses.

 

[xAGENTxMULDERx]

doesnt seem like a bad program to have anyway for its intended purposes, and its only 50 dollars as a standalone since i dont have or have a use for photoshop

 

[groovieknave]

You should try to get closer to things... It is kind of a photographer rule of thumb. The further you are the less pixels a subject has. When you see good photos taken with zoom lenses it is usually not a zoom but a prime. Zoom lenses are usually worse when fully zoomed.

Look into getting closer and using macro lenses