Snowflakes - printable versions, part II

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Trying to do something with low resolution of snowflake shots. I enlarged pictures 2x using SmartEdge demo, free resampling program. It works very slow, but produces output with good looking lines and edges and preserves textures clarity. This demo version also have input image restrictions (resolution should not be bigger than 512x512 pixels), so i processed whole pictures part by part and then reassemled.

Then i applied one of these nice freeware canvas textures in "soft light" blending mode with small opacity. This texture masked noise and resampling artifacts, making picture more appealing (i hope) at 1:1 scale view.

(2500x1876)

(2118x1588)

(1600x1200)

All snowflakes in set snowflakes and snow crystals, print versions here: snowflakes for print.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.