I am looking for some windows based software like the old Alien Skin blowup program. I used that before and was very impressed with my results from it. I am wondering what alternatives are out there now doing this same job?

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Then, it is as simple as clicking Ok to blow up the image and be taken back to Lightroom where the blownup version appears in the same folder as the original so I found it alongside the original in the filmstrip.

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All of the mechanics happen behind the scenes, you just have to set your paper size and optionally, a crop region. You can bring your photos up to 300,000 pixels per side; that is to say, really huge. If you seriously need to blow your photos up, and are willing to pay for more impressive performance than Photoshop offers on its own, this is a smart way to do it.

Note that these photos combine my two duck blowing up experiments. The first time I cut off the wing joints and feet and the duck blew up just fine. You have to cut them off with minimal skin tearing to ensure that the duck inflates like a balloon. It's wiser to chop off the appendages after blowing up the duck, which is what I did the second time and prescribe below. If the image of the duck is devoid feet and wingless, pretend that they are there!]

1. I first pulled out the excess fat in the body cavity near the rear opening. Then, following a tip from Eileen Yin Fei Lo in Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking, I scrubbed down the duck with table salt, rinsing it well and patting it dry with paper towel. This refreshes the duck.

5. What about the back side? Nothing was happening there. So I flipped over the duck, made another incision near the nape (bottom of the neck), and we blew more air into the back area. Peking duck is all about skin so why not loosen all that we can?

Hi Andrea,

To get a proper duck for this, the duck must not have a cut at its bottom end and also not a cut at its neck. The innards are removed via a cut through one of its armpit. Then water is pumped in to clean it, then drain and the cut sewn to seal. Once this is done a tube is inserted via the mouth down its neck and air is blown in till the duck is very puffy.

If you get a duck from the market you won't get this. So what my mum usually did was sew up the bottom cut with needle and thread to ensure tight seal. Then blow air from the little cut on top of the neck where blood is normally drawn when slaughtering the bird. If you blow air from the top of the neck, air can travel to both sides of the body. We used a manual bicycle pumps years ago before little air compressor was invented.

Then the fun part is to hang the duck on top the wok and giving it a hot shower with near boiling water mixed with maltose and vinegar. If you lay the duck in the hot water this may damage the air sac.

Then the hours of air drying. When the skin is partially dried, rub the skin with a little maltose mixed with some black vinegar to give it a dark mahogany colour when roasted. Then continue to dry till the duck skin is dried like paper.

Final step is roasting.

Hi Andrea, I would have thought vinegar and maltose mixture is only used for Cantonese-style roast duck/goose. Peking style duck only uses maltose and water as the rub.

The principle is the same for both types of rub: once it is hang-dried with natural air, the skin becomes cripsy when the duck is roasted, and the cripsiness comes from the rub.

Hi Andrea

I have never made Peking duck myself. I live in UK it is very difficult to get a suitable duck to experiment with.

From what my mum told me, vinegar helps the skin crispy because it degreases the skin and draws out moisture to keep the skin dry.

I am not too sure and no experience how the real thing is made. I only go by what my mum did and told me. I am Cantonese probably mum used the Cantonese method for Peking duck. My mum's method probably not that authentic but it worked, lovely crispy duck. We used both vinegar and maltose for both Cantonese roast duck and Peking duck.

I found this video quite useful. _YByVjXVn4/, the video is in Mandarin, if you want more explanation I can translate, here is a brief.

- how to remove the innards through the armpit (no cut on the bottom of duck), remove feet and part of the wing (the middle and end bit) then insert a bamboo stick across its chest to keep its shape, before cleaning the duck.

- then brow air through the top part of the neck.

- scald the duck by pouring with the hot water onto the body. Then it is coated with diluted maltose.

- dry in ventilated area then put in cold storage to cool the duck before roasting.

- When the duck is ready for roasting, put a pipe through its butt hole and fill the duck from the armpit with boiling water. Seal the armpit. This boiling water acts as hot steam to keep the skin puffy while roasting so it can be very crispy.

- There are two methods of roasting shown, one with open fire with wood logs and the other is a gas oven. Open fire is most popular and much better flavour, from what I read somewhere else the logs are specially selected to add flavour to the duck.

- When the duck is roasted, remove the butt hole pipe to release the water inside.

- then ready for the table for carving.

So it is not that easy if you really want to go all the way.

Happy duck roasting to you. Looking forward to your final result.

Andrea, Thank you so much for your many pages of wonderful instructions. I did it! I found fresh whole duck (well no head or feet) at Costco in Mtn View this past week. I couldn't believe it. The label said something about being Halal and naturally raised. It was $15 for a 5+lb bird. I couldn't resist, so I picked one up, remembering your duck adventures a few years ago.

My good-natured husband actually managed to blow up the duck with a straw (he is a woodwind player, so that helps). We doused it in the sink with a kettle of boiling water, then rubbed it with hoisin, 5-spice, wine, honey. Then let it sit in the fridge for 2 days. What a sight it was to open up the fridge and have "Donald" greeting us! Made my oldest son scream! We just ate it tonight with your lovely soft steamed buns from your dumpling book. What a great time we had preparing it and roasting it and eating it - lots of fun! Having never made duck before, I am so glad that I did it. Thank you for your writing - I would never have even bought it at the store if it weren't for your enthusiastic and detailed instructions.

However, for professionals and for users who depend on features such as chromatic aberration corrections, perspective control corrections, and more robust lens corrections, then Exposure is not up to the task, at least quite yet. I am hopeful that Alien Skin will address many of these shortcomings in future updates. And to give them full credit, they appear to be listening to what users are asking for. At that time, Exposure will become a real contender in the RAW processor race. Until that time though, I am saddened to say that I will have to maintain my tempestuous relationship with Lightroom for a bit longer.

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