Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling cartoons

2005-12-09 Thread JC Dill
Akkana Peck wrote: For a cartoon, you start with sharp edges and fairly even colors, so the problems aren't the same as with digital photos. Although you can't get more information than was present in the small image, are there techniques that let you scale up while preserving edges, so for inst

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling cartoons

2005-12-09 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:41:28AM -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > > Someone asked me recently about scaling up cartoon images (e.g. > to turn a small carton image into desktop wallpaper) and had the > impression that something like this might work. But I wasn't > able to find any information on these

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling cartoons

2005-12-09 Thread Akkana Peck
JC Dill writes: > You can resize the image up in "steps" to smooth out the pixelization > and rough edges as you resize it, but you will never regain the missing > detail that was not recorded when the photo was taken at such a low > resolution so the resulting image will be soft. (Sharpening w