High Quality Photo Enlargement
Here you can resize images maintaining quality, edges and texture. This means Reshade reduces or eliminates most of the usual side-effects of photo enlargement:
* Pixelation: visible square pixels in an image
* Loss of focus: blurry / out of focus image edges
* Loss of sharpness: reduced edge contrast
* Exaggerated noise: random pixel values, stains
Usually in image interpolation there is a tradeoff between sharpness and blur. If you want to remove blur and maintain sharpness you get pixelated and noisy images and vice-versa. Reshade balances as best as possible the 4 factors offering quality photo enlargement that maintains all the details in the original image at the same time.
Advantages of using Reshade over other image resizers:
* Works at all zoom levels: other professional resizers have only specific ranges (1-4x, 3x-5x etc) where they work right
* Highest accuracy: even the finest textures in the original image are preserved (best forensic photo enlarger)
* Doesn't lose photo realism: other resizers smooth the image too much in the interpolation process.
The Reshade Algorithm
The main purpose of the algorithm is to upsize (increase the resolution of) images without deteriorating image details. Most of the existing upsizing algorithms either give a very blurry result or an artificial look, which is not desirable generally. Any zoom (upscaling size) is possible theoretically. The limitations for the online resizer are due to limited available processing time on the server. The following are a few of the factors considered when creating the reshade algorithm:
* Maintaining edge clarity
The classic trade-offs when enlarging an image were either jagged, blurred or artificially smooth edges. Reshading succeeds in keeping sharp and naturally smooth edges, breaking the "tradition".
* Creating texture
When enlarging an image, finer texture almost entirely disappears. Studies on perception show that the lack of lower order texturing has a degrading effect on the perceived image quality. Some solutions to this go as far as adding noise (film grain) intentionally to compensate for this reduction in detail. Of course noise doesn't really do much good, but it's helpful if no other alternative exists. Reshading creates small texture by finely distorting existing details to match the original image. This gives a better feel to the resulting textures in the enlarged image. They seem more natural at that scale and more pleasing to the eye.
* Reducing noise
For most other algorithms a small dot in the original image may become a large speckle in the enlarged version. Not so with reshading. By selectively manipulating the details, noise is usually reduced to manageable amounts. There is also a denoise setting available so that you can remove more noise from the image.
* Removing sharpening-halo effects
When sharpening with unsharp-mask like filters you create greater contrast near edges. This looks good in the original image: the eye perceives only accentuated edges and not small halos around them. When zooming in, this changes: now you can easily see the halos and this is not that pleasant. With reshading the impact of sharpening-halos on the enlarged image is reduced.
* Reducing jpeg artifacts
The same thing happens with jpeg artifacs. When viewing jpegs at low compression these artifacts may not be noticeable. But when zooming in they become annoying. Reshade fixes this completely sometimes and in other cases reduces dramatically the degrading effect on image quality automatically. You can explicitly tell reshade to remove artifacts by using the smooth feature.
* Enhancing blurry images
A very important aspect is keeping the focus of the image while resizing. Normal resizing methods like bicubic (from Photoshop) introduce a noticeable blur starting from very low zoom factors just about 120%. Reshade is able to maintain focus well over 400%. If the original image doesn't contain high detail textures, enlargements can reach even 2000% without a great deal of blur.
* Supports up to 11 different image types
JPG,JPEG,BMP,PNG,GIF,TIF,TIFF,PCX,PNM,ICO,CUR
shortly....it can resize almost any kind of image and increase it's quality..and how to get the premium/full version of this? no prob
1) Download the latest version of Reshade(Pre-Release 2.0) HERE,after you done download simply install it.
2) After you done install don't run the program yet,now download THIS,it's a RAR file and inside it "reshade.exe"
3) Go to the installation folder of Reshade(by default located in "C:\Program Files\Reshade 2.0"),now open the RAR file that you just downloaded and "Move & Replace" the original reshade.exe with the 1 in the RAR file.
4) Enjoy
differences between Free and Premium..
* Free - zoom is limited to 200%,allow resizes below 1920x1200px,annoying watermark on images.
* Premium - unlimited zoom,resize images up to 6000x3750px (more than 22 Megapixels),For printing purposes this makes for a decent DPI 60x23 inch (100x60 cm) print,no annoying watermark on images,higher quality images.
you probably thinking.."that's a BS show us some proof!!"...no prob
here's the Premium version of Reshade showing "Before" and "After"..(i did them myself - i mean the "enhancing"..the pic from Google xD)
the top pic is the "Before" and the bottom pic is the "After"
you can see the the quality is a little better,also the pic is much more in focus and sharpen,less blurry and more detailed then the original..
i found this program few hours ago and i wanted to share it..i just love it!! and i hope you will like it too
it's pretty good software and easy to use,of course Photoshop is better,but Reshade is good just for increase your pics quality,like family pics or increase the quality of your desktop themes,or just having fun messing with it xD haha
Press on "Thanks" if you like it >.>
Here you can resize images maintaining quality, edges and texture. This means Reshade reduces or eliminates most of the usual side-effects of photo enlargement:
* Pixelation: visible square pixels in an image
* Loss of focus: blurry / out of focus image edges
* Loss of sharpness: reduced edge contrast
* Exaggerated noise: random pixel values, stains
Usually in image interpolation there is a tradeoff between sharpness and blur. If you want to remove blur and maintain sharpness you get pixelated and noisy images and vice-versa. Reshade balances as best as possible the 4 factors offering quality photo enlargement that maintains all the details in the original image at the same time.
Advantages of using Reshade over other image resizers:
* Works at all zoom levels: other professional resizers have only specific ranges (1-4x, 3x-5x etc) where they work right
* Highest accuracy: even the finest textures in the original image are preserved (best forensic photo enlarger)
* Doesn't lose photo realism: other resizers smooth the image too much in the interpolation process.
The Reshade Algorithm
The main purpose of the algorithm is to upsize (increase the resolution of) images without deteriorating image details. Most of the existing upsizing algorithms either give a very blurry result or an artificial look, which is not desirable generally. Any zoom (upscaling size) is possible theoretically. The limitations for the online resizer are due to limited available processing time on the server. The following are a few of the factors considered when creating the reshade algorithm:
* Maintaining edge clarity
The classic trade-offs when enlarging an image were either jagged, blurred or artificially smooth edges. Reshading succeeds in keeping sharp and naturally smooth edges, breaking the "tradition".
* Creating texture
When enlarging an image, finer texture almost entirely disappears. Studies on perception show that the lack of lower order texturing has a degrading effect on the perceived image quality. Some solutions to this go as far as adding noise (film grain) intentionally to compensate for this reduction in detail. Of course noise doesn't really do much good, but it's helpful if no other alternative exists. Reshading creates small texture by finely distorting existing details to match the original image. This gives a better feel to the resulting textures in the enlarged image. They seem more natural at that scale and more pleasing to the eye.
* Reducing noise
For most other algorithms a small dot in the original image may become a large speckle in the enlarged version. Not so with reshading. By selectively manipulating the details, noise is usually reduced to manageable amounts. There is also a denoise setting available so that you can remove more noise from the image.
* Removing sharpening-halo effects
When sharpening with unsharp-mask like filters you create greater contrast near edges. This looks good in the original image: the eye perceives only accentuated edges and not small halos around them. When zooming in, this changes: now you can easily see the halos and this is not that pleasant. With reshading the impact of sharpening-halos on the enlarged image is reduced.
* Reducing jpeg artifacts
The same thing happens with jpeg artifacs. When viewing jpegs at low compression these artifacts may not be noticeable. But when zooming in they become annoying. Reshade fixes this completely sometimes and in other cases reduces dramatically the degrading effect on image quality automatically. You can explicitly tell reshade to remove artifacts by using the smooth feature.
* Enhancing blurry images
A very important aspect is keeping the focus of the image while resizing. Normal resizing methods like bicubic (from Photoshop) introduce a noticeable blur starting from very low zoom factors just about 120%. Reshade is able to maintain focus well over 400%. If the original image doesn't contain high detail textures, enlargements can reach even 2000% without a great deal of blur.
* Supports up to 11 different image types
JPG,JPEG,BMP,PNG,GIF,TIF,TIFF,PCX,PNM,ICO,CUR
shortly....it can resize almost any kind of image and increase it's quality..and how to get the premium/full version of this? no prob
1) Download the latest version of Reshade(Pre-Release 2.0) HERE,after you done download simply install it.
2) After you done install don't run the program yet,now download THIS,it's a RAR file and inside it "reshade.exe"
3) Go to the installation folder of Reshade(by default located in "C:\Program Files\Reshade 2.0"),now open the RAR file that you just downloaded and "Move & Replace" the original reshade.exe with the 1 in the RAR file.
4) Enjoy
differences between Free and Premium..
* Free - zoom is limited to 200%,allow resizes below 1920x1200px,annoying watermark on images.
* Premium - unlimited zoom,resize images up to 6000x3750px (more than 22 Megapixels),For printing purposes this makes for a decent DPI 60x23 inch (100x60 cm) print,no annoying watermark on images,higher quality images.
you probably thinking.."that's a BS show us some proof!!"...no prob
here's the Premium version of Reshade showing "Before" and "After"..(i did them myself - i mean the "enhancing"..the pic from Google xD)
the top pic is the "Before" and the bottom pic is the "After"
you can see the the quality is a little better,also the pic is much more in focus and sharpen,less blurry and more detailed then the original..
i found this program few hours ago and i wanted to share it..i just love it!! and i hope you will like it too
it's pretty good software and easy to use,of course Photoshop is better,but Reshade is good just for increase your pics quality,like family pics or increase the quality of your desktop themes,or just having fun messing with it xD haha
Press on "Thanks" if you like it >.>
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