Why Not Just Use a Quick Resize?
Enlarging an image in software will increase the size of flaws. Digital compression schemes used for DVD-Video and JPEG/GIF online images are very lossy, and errors are usually not seen because they are small. When you increase the image size, you increase the noise size too. An original video tape was purchased used, in poor condition, and without any case. The goal of this personal project was to not only convert and restore the video to DVD, but create a case too. The following image is a medium-sized image. It comes from a web site, it was a preview image for the VHS tape. Notice how the errors can be seen in the solid color areas of the helmets, and around objects. Looks carefully, they exist. The image was then cropped to a DVD case size, for the front of the case. This is how the image would look by simply resizing to 1030×1450 resolution in Photoshop (shown here at 50% size, to fit on screen): Notice all the nasty color noise in the white parts of the uniform. It can be seen in
