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<span style="font-family: ibarraReal;">Dear Markus, I would be very cautious about this, because what these AI programs do is "invent" the image in the sense that they propose an image with the highest probability of resembling the real image, but it is still
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: ibarraReal;">Therefore, "it works" if what you intend is to show a striking image; but from my point of view it is inadmissible for research purposes.</span></div>
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<b>Enviado:</b> viernes, 8 de diciembre de 2023 12:11<br>
<b>Para:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Markus Nornes <nornes@umich.edu><br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [KineJapan] This is Huge: Upscaling Framegrabs to 300 dpi</span>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I was prepping a photo for an upcoming publication and made a huge discovery I'd like to share. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I had a photo I grabbed off the internet that I really wanted to use. I secured the rights, but the online photo was only 72 dpi and 300 X 168 pixels. Small. Very small. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">So I met the photo's owner and we took the printed photo to a place to get a scan done. When I got home, I was shocked to find they scanned at 72 and used a setting that blew out all the greys. Incredible. It was such a production
to get the scan done that I fired up Photoshop to play and see what could be done. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I discovered that recent versions of Photoshop have the ability to upscale photos. There are a few techniques to wrap your head around, so it might be tough if you don't know Photoshop. But here is a tutorial that introduces some
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<div style="direction: ltr;">There are a few other tutorials out there. This is one of the more useful of the bunch.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">(I notice that Topaz and some other software is offering upscaling functions as well.)</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">This is huge for our field. Framegrabs from DVDs and most digital movie files are only 72 dpi; for printing on paper you need at least 300 and a size set that's at least as big as the printed page. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Usually, when you expand the size of a small photo you get pixelation. Photoshop can now smooth it all out! I was able to bump up the tiny image to 300 dpi. There are various changes to the image, so it requires tweaking. And I
didn't test this much, so there might be unwanted artifacts or changes to the image that would make image analysis tricky. But it works. I think it's a game-changer for publishing in film and media studies. </div>
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