Need super high quality flyboy in lift (elevator) image

[Griff]

If you still need a screenshot, I can help you out, Neil. Lemme know!

[jscott]

Could you help me out too Griff? I need a screenshot for the same purpose.

[Neil]

So far I've got one from a bluray. However, on cropping it down to just Flyboy and the lift, it appear basically the same as the image in the OP, and not as sharp or well contrasted. It's beginning to look as if the example in the OP is as good as it might get?

[Griff]

Could you help me out too Griff? I need a screenshot for the same purpose. I'd be happy to - only I'm about to fly outta town for work. I won't be home for the next week. Can you wait till then?

[Neil]

^^ Of course!

[jscott]

What Neil said. Thanks Griff.

[Griff]

Okay, I'm back home. Neil, I'll get your pic within a day or two. Jscott, are you after the exact same screenshot?

[Neil]

Ta... Yes he's after the same sort of thing... for the same reason

[babomb]

What are you guys doing with this anyway? If you don't mind me asking...

[Neil]

I have a small piece of the wood cladding from the lift/elevator. So I want to put it in a small picture frame with a picture of flyboy and the elevator behind it.

[babomb]

I have a screen grab of the blu-ray in 720p. I don't know if they did a 1080p version or not. vlcsnap-2013-04-24-02h49m20s176.jpg By uploading it the image was shrunk. The one on my computer is 1280x720(720p). I can take one at any particular time in the film if the one I posted isn't the exact one you want. Just let me know the time and where to send the full size image to.

[Neil]

^^ Thanks... Have to say though from what I've see this is the image to be so far... And maybe this is as good as it get?

[babomb]

How did you get that one? If it's just a DVD grab that was cropped, which it seems like, a grab from an HD source cropped in the exact same way will be better than that. In the image you have there I can see visible haloing on all the edges and artifacts that come from upscaling an image. That will come through in the print big time. If you're gonna print it out yourself there's some other considerations. Computer monitors and HDTV's display images in RGB(red-green-blue). Printers print images in CMYK(cyan-magenta-yellow-black). So if you print the image yourself you'll have to convert the images color profile to CMYK or it won't print right regardless of the quality of the image. It's not difficult to do, you just have to have an image editing app like photoshop. I assume you want it to look as good as possible for the purpose. So unless you convert the image you choose to print to the CMYK print profile, it will have color problems, which usually results in too much blue making it look like a printed TV screen. After doing a comparison of your image and the 720p capture I did it looks like your image was just brightened a little bit. Which is also easy to do. And no matter where the screen grab comes from it will have to still be brightened and converted to CMYK before printing to make it look like you want it to. The difference will be that an HD screen grab won't have the haloing and artifacts that the image you posted has. The image you posted is from the web, so it's using an RGB color profile. It will still have to be converted to CMYK in order to print right.

[Neil]

^^ Just found it on the internet. I now think it's a 1080p frame that's just been cropped down...

[babomb]

It's also been edited to lighten it up. But it looks like it's been upscaled. I can tell by the artifacts in the smaller detailed areas. That could also be from someone doing a bad job lightening it. The dimensions of the image are 1000x644. So it was probably a 720p grab cropped from 1280x720 down to 1000x644. A 1080p grab would be 1920x1080, so the quality would be greater still. If Griff gets you a native 1080p grab, you can email me the image and I can lighten it and convert the profile so it will print right. Unless you plan to have it printed by a service or something, then they'll do all that before it's printed. But it's not difficult and not something to pay a bunch of money for. It only takes 5 minutes, I've done it a million times.