Editing Image work needed.

[PvK]

Ok, I'll give it a try tonight when I get home.

It's a Photoshop plugin (actually, a series of products) by LizardTech called Genuine Fractals (or PrintPro).

It uses a fractal algorithm to extrapolate what an image should look like when enlarged. In some cases the results are quite amazing. Other times less so. I think it would do very well for most maps.

I've used it to create larger Versions of very small sprites and thumbnails with good success.

It's main intended application though is for very large image files, such as for large high-quality prints and posters and so on, where it offers a very high-fidelity yet compressed format which is easily scalable to any size.

PvK

[PvK]

Ok, I made an enormous Version, which you'll probably want to shrink down, and maybe apply some Photoshop sharpening to.

Unfortunately, your original image was not only low-res, but apparently came from a lowish-fidelty JPEG of a scan.

But I don't think it reduced the fidelity in increasing the pixel size. I think it actually looks a little better, but ideally, a higher-res scan would be the best way.

Anyway, there is a 50-meg zipped Version here.

Let me know when you're done with it, and I'll probably take it down.

I could also make another size, if that would help.

PvK

[Cohen]

I've started the DL.

I hope there won't be any totl white pixel (RGB 255 255 255).

Now I've a question for experience map editors.
The pixel for the provinces, should be done with a grahical software, or the Map Editor can create them?

[PvK]

I didn't scan for all-white pixels, so there may be some. It's also fairly simple to remove them in Photoshop. Maybe you can let me know what final size you want, and any other details, and I can spend a little more time making another Version, if that would help.

PvK

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by PvK:
It's a Photoshop plugin (actually, a series of products) by LizardTech called Genuine Fractals (or PrintPro).

Where can I get this plugin? I hope its a free download.

[Gandalf Parker]

You need to put in the white pixels. The map editor program will assign them numbers, make a guess at neighbors (its helped out if you have borders with some red in them). And it can make it easier to assign terrain

By the way it apparently works better if you give it a .map file to overwrite. It doesnt seem to like creating one from nothing.

[PvK]

Originally posted by Daynarr:

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Originally posted by PvK:
It's a Photoshop plugin (actually, a series of products) by LizardTech called Genuine Fractals (or PrintPro).

Where can I get this plugin? I hope its a free download.

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http://www.lizardtech.com/solutions/gf/ is the publisher's page about it.

Buying direct from them it is $50 for the limited Version (limits on size and stuff), up to $300 for the full Version.

There may be other places to buy it, and/or competing products, though.

Edit:
There's also an intermediate $160 Version, and there is a free trial demo download, though it has a limit of 20 uses, at:

http://www.lizardtech.com/download/d...hp?page=trials

PvK

[ June 02, 2004, 16:54: Message edited by: PvK ]