Bug 129539

Summary:	Krita should add Bicubic filter; better than Mitchell
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Camilla Boemann <cbo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Christopher Martin 2006-06-21 03:40:15 UTC

Version:           1.5.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.x 
OS:                Linux

Krita supports a number of filters for resizing images - Bell, Spline, Mitchell, etc. There is one important filter it doesn't support, Bicubic, which is similar to Mitchell but with changes for enhanced sharpness.

The GIMP supports it, and Gwenview as well (though only for viewing in Gwenview's case). I find it to be noticeably superior to Mitchell, and when trying to use Krita to resize images, I found myself stopping and going back to the GIMP to use Bicubic. I don't want to have to do this, really!

Hopefully it won't be too hard to add. Gwenview's code might be helpful:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/gwenview/imageutils/scale.cpp

Thanks,
Christopher Martin

Comment 1 Halla Rempt 2006-06-21 09:30:24 UTC

it should be fairly simple: krita has a scaling filter interface and it should be possible to implement a new filter very easily, once you understand the mathematics -- which I probably will never do.

Comment 2 mrdocs 2006-10-14 21:04:58 UTC

Seems like this bug is fixed in 1.6 final. I scaled using Bi-cubic and it worked fine for me. I'd recommend even it be the default.

Comment 3 mrdocs 2006-10-15 00:33:16 UTC

Correction, I found Bi-cubic did not work right in 1.6

Comment 4 Stefan Mueller 2006-12-31 11:46:26 UTC

3 days ago, I resized a large digikam pic to 450 width in krita for the web.

The result was unusable, it was blurred. Tried it with 2-3 different algos, but not very long. So I reszied it with gimp.

Comment 5 Stefan Mueller 2006-12-31 11:47:56 UTC

3 days ago, I resized a large digikam pic to 450 width in krita 1.6.1 for the web. 
 
 The result was unusable, it was blurred. Tried it with 2-3 different algos, but not very long. So I reszied it with gimp.

Comment 6 Camilla Boemann 2009-02-13 20:22:05 UTC

SVN commit 925647 by boemann:

Disable Box, Mitchell,Lanczos3, BSpline,Bell scaling methods

Rename Triangle to Biliniar

Implement Bicubic (test shows it to be as good as photoshops), but it has a bug 
which gives some nasty sideeffect sometimes.

BUG:129539


 M  +38 -6     kis_filter_strategy.cc  
 M  +11 -1     kis_filter_strategy.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=925647