Genuine Frcatals is a Photoshop plug in from Lizardtech. I believe it is used by professional photographers to scale images. Has anyone tried to use it with PhotoImpact XL?
Does anyone know if it works with PhotoImpact XL?
Scaling Images with Genuine Fractals
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greenboy
Is that a 16/48-bit enabled plugin? {I should go google, I know, I know ; } ...So far I haven't found a plugin that is that will be available under PhotoImpact when 16/48-bit data is loaded : { ...With some of my best shots I'd sure like to work more in higher bitspace, yep.
Bicubic is considered pretty good among specialists from what I've read, but it would be nice to have this or a couple other advanced scaling algorithms available.
Bicubic is considered pretty good among specialists from what I've read, but it would be nice to have this or a couple other advanced scaling algorithms available.
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rogerl_uk
An alternative?
I'm not sure what you mean by a "16/48-bit enabled plug in", as Iam a novice at this.
However, I have found another program (not a plug in) that will resize image files. It works with JPEG, TIFF and seceral other formats. It is free for personal use.
It is called Multiple Image Resize and is found at
http://www.acumensystems.com/mir/
To use MIR you just run the program, select the files to resize, set the "resizing" parametrs, set the "save" parameters and then press "GO".
You have a number of choices for resizing algorithm: Bicubic, Bicubic (high quality), Bilinear, Bilinear(high quality), High Quality, MIR Standard, and Nearest Neighbour.
The quality on the screen seems quite good, but I haven't tried printing from it. Nor do I have the experience to compare it to anything else.
I would value your opinion on it.
UH OH
I've now been experimenting withthis product on my pc. It seems to have a conflict with PhotoImpact XL which has become unstable. So I've restored my pc to the restorepoint I created: everything back to normal.
As for upsizing the images I'll stick to the tools built into PhotoImpact XL (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).
However, I have found another program (not a plug in) that will resize image files. It works with JPEG, TIFF and seceral other formats. It is free for personal use.
It is called Multiple Image Resize and is found at
http://www.acumensystems.com/mir/
To use MIR you just run the program, select the files to resize, set the "resizing" parametrs, set the "save" parameters and then press "GO".
You have a number of choices for resizing algorithm: Bicubic, Bicubic (high quality), Bilinear, Bilinear(high quality), High Quality, MIR Standard, and Nearest Neighbour.
The quality on the screen seems quite good, but I haven't tried printing from it. Nor do I have the experience to compare it to anything else.
I would value your opinion on it.
UH OH
I've now been experimenting withthis product on my pc. It seems to have a conflict with PhotoImpact XL which has become unstable. So I've restored my pc to the restorepoint I created: everything back to normal.
As for upsizing the images I'll stick to the tools built into PhotoImpact XL (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).
Last edited by rogerl_uk on Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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greenboy
Well, bicubic in PhotoImpact has always seemed to give me real high quality images even through several iterations with any size of photo or painted input, so unless someone points me at a newly-researched algorithm that experts say is even better I don't really see using another program that also does Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, or Bicubic.