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RE: Star Wars poster - Espermaschine - 03-20-2018
Did you upscale the whale picture ?
The low quality is pretty apparent.
RE: Star Wars poster - MikeA - 03-20-2018
Yes, the picture is a low res web find and I have not yet asked permission to use it from the copyright owner. I will try to obtain a better quality original if possible. I hope I get the permission to use the picture, because this work is for a non-profit organization.
RE: Star Wars poster - Espermaschine - 03-20-2018
You can always try to find a better one with the options google provides for its image search.
Under 'Tools' there are filteroptions for size and copyrights.
RE: Star Wars poster - MikeA - 03-20-2018
(03-20-2018, 10:09 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: You can always try to find a better one with the options google provides for its image search.
Under 'Tools' there are filteroptions for size and copyrights.
I already tried to google with no luck. This is actually a clip from a much bigger picture.
RE: Star Wars poster - Ofnuts - 03-21-2018
Looks nice at small size, but at full size the whale image is very pixellated. If you want to make a big poster, you have to find a big image.
RE: Star Wars poster - Espermaschine - 03-21-2018
Another solution might be to find an image with water and blood, and another one with the fin of a whale coming out of water.
Same message but more choice of images.
RE: Star Wars poster - MikeA - 03-21-2018
(03-21-2018, 12:49 AM)Espermaschine Wrote: Another solution might be to find an image with water and blood, and another one with the fin of a whale coming out of water.Yep. There are lots of pictures with just the tail of the whale. On the other hand this is an authentic picture that shows a butchering of a whale.
Same message but more choice of images.
Are there any GIMP tools that I could use to increase the quality of the picture without spoiling it? I think I could zoom in and modify the edges of the whale manually pixel by pixel. And copy the skin tones from other whale pictures. But what can I do with the sea? Adding darker red pixels could make the picture more dramatic.
RE: Star Wars poster - rich2005 - 03-21-2018
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/7zTck68C/file.html
that is a nasty data slurper
Oops!
You can’t access without an account on Pickaflick
RE: Star Wars poster - MikeA - 03-21-2018
(03-21-2018, 08:02 AM)rich2005 Wrote: http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/7zTck68C/file.html
that is a nasty data slurper
Oops!
You can’t access without an account on Pickaflick
Zippyshare is a popular file sharing page and as to my knowledge does not contain any malware tools. I think your computer/browser has been infected by Pickaflick malware. Pickaflick.co popup redirects you to pages where "only registered friends are able to see all the content". "www.pickaflick.co" is a fraudulent online streaming website, that only tries to get your credit card number. You should update your virus scanner, I recommend free Comodo and especially Adaware Antivirus Free. Hope this helps.
RE: Star Wars poster - rich2005 - 03-21-2018
(03-21-2018, 09:24 AM)MikeA Wrote: Zippyshare is a popular file sharing page and as to my knowledge does not contain any malware tools. I think your computer/browser has been infected by Pickaflick malware. Pickaflick.co popup redirects you to pages where "only registered friends are able to see all the content". "www.pickaflick.co" is a fraudulent online streaming website, that only tries to get your credit card number. You should update your virus scanner, I recommend free Comodo and especially Adaware Antivirus Free. Hope this helps.
I do not think so. I use linux and slimjet browser so windows virus does not come into it.
however: back to your poster
Unless a good image is sourced, always going to be a problem, scaling up something tiny.
Had a search around google images, and the best was tiny, a couple of hundred pix.
What can you do, scaling up and tweaking might get you to around 1000 pix. That is still probably only half the required size for a poster and still not wonderful. Gets to here, big png 3.5 MB so posted:
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZgki47ZN8jdseQmgQufydyE7KenMLJ9rT0k
What can you do to mitigate the awfulness? Make it into a feature:
This has been half-toned using Gimp 2.9.9 newsprint filter. https://i.imgur.com/wDOFgxH.png
There are other effects, just a suggestion.