Duh-oh! Wait. I *do* misunderstand the problem. You aren't making wallpaper, you want the best image.
OK, forget everything I just said. Sorry about that. Slinking off into the corner now, tail between legs, Carlisle On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Carlisle Landel wrote: > >>> What techniques do list members use to resize/sharpen screen display >>> images and what USM etc values seem best? I'm determined to produce >>> an image which my wife actually feels does the original >>> justice........ > > Are you sure the "sharpness" issue isn't simply one of having the > proper resolution and aspect ratio? > > Usually, if your digital image is of sufficient resolution, then, > given the proper aspect ratio and/or how you ask the computer to > display the image, it will be nice and sharp. > > I'm a Mac driver, so I'm somewhat unclear on the details for making a > Windows desktop wallpaper image. Nonetheless, I've got a friend > with a windows box who wanted a photo converted to wallpaper. As it > was displayed, it was a mess (it was a photo of a person), fuzzy and > distorted. I re-scanned the photo at higher resolution and then > saved it as wallpaper. That cleared up the fuzziness. It was still > distorted because the display resolution wasn't set to a pixel count > appropriate for the screen size. Thus the image was stretched in one > dimension in order to fit the screen. I had to futz around with the > screen resolution until I got it to display correctly (Macs handle > this much better--well, ok they handle most things better<g>), but I > eventually figured it out. Problem solved. > > Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem. > > Good luck, > > Carlisle > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the > message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
