hirez can be found here.
Believe I found a way to get sharper results using b/w dither to feed into Shapism for use as a mask. 
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Refining the masking technique and used this same tiger and posted at link below for those interested.
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20288&p=278467#p278467
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