The most recent Shutterbug gave a rather glowing report to the
program/PhotoShop plug-in "Genuine Fractals", but since they rarely -- if
ever -- publish anything but positive reviews, I was wondering if there are
any users out there who can shed some light on the programs pluses and
minuses.
TIA
Norm
John A. Stovall - 29 Jan 2006 22:19 GMT
>The most recent Shutterbug gave a rather glowing report to the
>program/PhotoShop plug-in "Genuine Fractals", but since they rarely -- if
>ever -- publish anything but positive reviews, I was wondering if there are
>any users out there who can shed some light on the programs pluses and
>minuses.
I use it and find it very good for large scale upsizing. I got it
because Alamy stock images require 40meg tiffs and suggest it should
be used for upsizing for submission.
Here are some unbiased reviews.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/fractals.shtml
http://www.designer-info.com/Writing/genuine_fractals.htm
But remember these are based on old version. 4.1 now doesn't require
the STN format and works with all CS2 formats.
Here's on 4.1.
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tools/plugins/genuine-fractals.html
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mark.thomas.7@gmail.com - 29 Jan 2006 22:21 GMT
One word, if you are after good interpolation. QImage.
See below for some comparisons:
http://hannemyr.com/photo/interpolation.html
http://www.charm.net/~mchaney/testpics/resample.jpg
http://www.americaswonderlands.com/digital_photo_interpolation.htm
http://www.steves-digicams.com/techcorner/january_2006.html
http://general-cathexis.com/interpolation.html