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Old 05-28-2010, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt View Post
Picasa has some rudimentary photo enhancing ability (sharpening, etc.) and is free. If you're looking for the kind of thing you see on CSI, where blurry text magically becomes clear, in which case, I would suggest you go to the CBS studios
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What Matt is saying is that the impression given on CSI type shows as to what can be done with low-res images does not represent reality. You can't recreate visual information that was lost in the reprodution of the image - it's gone. All you can do is sharpen things up a bit. In this case it probably won't help you much.
As a software developer, I always cringe when I hear those familiar phrases "Zoom in right there!", and "Enhance it!"
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