I have upgraded to 2.8 and am interested in the possibility of using Rev as a Photo processing tool for taking large digital images down in size for web deployment.
I see the new resize quality option allows for "best" bicubic interpolation, but there is no documentation on how and when this function is called Also, note, the Engine change log is tructated on the last N.B. for this new feature. ======== Improved Image Resizing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are now three levels of image resize quality: - normal: uses a 'nearest' filter - i.e. no interpolation - good: uses a 'bilinear' filter - i.e. interpolation is done between the four nearest pixels using bilinearity - best: uses a 'bicubic' filter - i.e. interpolation is done using cubic approximation from near pixels The filter used can be set using the 'resizeQuality' property of images. 'normal' is the fastest scaling method, followed by 'good' and then 'best'. N.B. The image quality is now a persistent property of images. N.B. Due to the current engine graphics architecture, the quality [missing text here] ========= "resizeQuality" turns nothing in the regular documentation. We need a "tutorial' on this... a "cookbook" recipe: (ASIDE: do we have a cookbook section in the forums yet?) see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook for the kind of site I think would really be helpful to maintain for Revolution users... to which we all could contribute... one central place) "How To Downsize Images in Revolution" Your new "feature" implies all this, but a new user would be hard put to find out where and how to do it. It this function implemented when I grab the handles of an image and drag it to a smaller rect? is it passed along with ImageDate after the image is resized? etc. Where can one go to figure this out ?? Scenario is simple: e.g. we have a 2.5 Meg digital image on disk and I want to downsize that to a 345 px wide jpg at quality 40 using Revolutions new "bicubic/best" option and then compare the results to what I'm getting out of Adobe's ImageReady. Best approach (taking advantage of the new resizeQuality feature) would be? TIA Om shanti (In Peace) Sivakatirswami www.himalayanacademy.com Get Hinduism Today Digital Edition. It's Free! http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution