Hi the-outdoorsman,

pLoader performs a slight color and sharpness enhancement on resized photos. I personally really appreciate it, the difference between "raw resize" and "resize + enhancement" is nice.

Can you select a photo from your collection where the darkness difference is visible and give us a link?

No problem the-outdoorsman, I've set your topic as "resolved" (you can do it by yourself, just click on "set this topic as resolved" link at the bottom right of the first post)

I've asked ron to come and show the difference between a "simply resized" and a "resized with enhancements" photo.

plg wrote:

I've asked ron to come and show the difference between a "simply resized" and a "resized with enhancements" photo.

pLoader uses ImageMagick for resizing images. When the image is downsampled, it looses sharpness. The usual way to restore sharpness is to apply unsharp mask such as Lanczos algorithm. By default pLoader applyes a 10% sharpening by setting blur property to 0.9. You can set the blur property to cancel unsharp mask or set it to a value greater than 1 to have a blurred effect.

Below are the same image resized with a 0.9 and a 1.0 blur factor.

Last edited by ron (2009-10-28 12:22:19)