What scaling plugin? Genuine Fractals or SizeFixer?

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I’m planning to buy a image scaling software / plugin. I have some experience of Genuine Fractals, but is it the best scaler around?

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I’m planning to buy a image scaling software / plugin. I have some experience of Genuine Fractals, but is it the best scaler around?
Try this free one before you spend.

Open an image you want res up.

Open the Actions palette and select "New Set".

Name it "Creeping Increase" or whatever you like.

Now select New Action and call it "1.5 Increase"

Next go to Image/Size and put a check in "Resample" and "Constrain Proportions"

with Bicubic and change the width drop down to "percent" and enter 110.

Now go to "Image Size" do the same 3 more times.

Then "Stop Recording"

Next "New Action" Name it "2.0 Increase"

Now "Edit/Purge All"

Next select the "1.5 Increase" in the Actions Palette

and press the Play button.

select the "1.5 Increase" again,

press the Play button again.

Stop Recording.

"New Action" Name it 3.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "2.0 Increase"

Select and play the "1.5 Increase"

Stop Recording.

"New Action" Name it 4.0 Increase.

"Edit/Purge All"

Select and play the "3.0 Increase"

Now "Image Size" 110 percent.

And again "Image Size" 110 percent.

Stop Recording.

Save the Action.
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Tacit
Oct 26, 2005
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I’m planning to buy a image scaling software / plugin. I have some experience of Genuine Fractals, but is it the best scaler around?

Genuine Fractals is a so-so program marketed aggressively and, in my opinion, unethically, with outrageous claims that neither it nor any other program can live up to.

The fact is, if you think you need to buy a scaler, then you need to sit down and re-think what you are doing. Nothing, absolutely nothing–no program, no algorithm, no technique–can increase the number of pixels in an image and create detail that is not there in the original. It cannot be done. All scaling programs will always and forever degrade the quality of the image.

Genuine Fractals sometimes produces results that are somewhat better than Photoshop’s interpolation on some images–emphasis on "sometimes," "somewhat," and "some images."

Why do you need to scale images? Why not just create the images at the proper resolution to begin with?


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nomail
Oct 26, 2005
Tacit wrote:

Why do you need to scale images? Why not just create the images at the proper resolution to begin with?

Because not everyone can afford a Canon 1Ds MkII?


Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/
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Beeder
Oct 28, 2005
Why not just uncheck the "resample" option in Photoshop and lower your ppi in the Image Size dialog? Depending on what the image is for, anywhere between 70 and 400 should be acceptable, and even the cheapest of digicams are much higher than 70ppi. There’s only so much "generated" information you can add to an image before it starts to become visibly degraded.

BTW, filter noise out if it’s apparent before doing any sort of enlargement (else, of course, the noisy pixels enlarge also…).

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