Digital BW, The Print

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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:12:32 -0000
> From: "Joe Davajon" <davajon@...>
> Subject: Genuine Fractals
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you are using Genuine Fractals.  On the face of it,
> the 
> program sounds good.  Lizard asserts that one can take a small file and
> enlarge it withous loss of any kind.  For example, one can take a file that
> prints 
> at 8x10 satisfactorily but at 16x20 is unacceptable and using Genuine
> Fractals can enlarge to 16x20 "lossless" or even larger and have the same
> sharpness one had at 8x10.  I'm thinking that if the deal sounds to be too
> good 
> to be true it probably isn't true.  I downloaded a trial version and frankly
> it 
> looks good to me.  But, before springing for $300.00, I'd appreciate imput
> from 
> those who may be experienced using the program.  Any thoughts on this
> issue?  Thanks in advance.
> Joe D.
 
Joe,

I've been using GF for a couple of years and have made 20"x30" prints of
both large jpeg's and CRW files from my 10D.  Also I have a friend that does
large format printing and routinely does very large Prints (4'X12') using GF
for both digital images and slides scanned at 2700 and 4000 dpi. This is a
good program (much, much better than PhotoShop), but I don't understand the
cost you quote - mine cost $99.00 when I bought it, has the cost gone up
that much?  Hope this helps your decision.

And while I'm on the subject, has anyone installed Genuine Fractals 2.0 on a
system using OS 10.3.3 and PhotoShop CS.  Mine runs fine on OS 9.2.2 and
PhotoShop 7, but when I install it on the above combination nothing with the
.stn tag will open or show up in the browser.  My friend who I referenced
above uses a PC with XP and CS and has no trouble - perhaps I need a new
version of GF to work with OS 10, that's what I'm afraid of ($300?).


Roger Smith
E. Lansing, MI 48823--

<Roger wrote:
And while I'm on the subject, has anyone installed
Genuine Fractals 2.0 on a system using OS 10.3.3 and
PhotoShop CS.  Mine runs fine on OS 9.2.2 and
PhotoShop 7, but when I install it on the above
combination nothing with the
.stn tag will open or show up in the browser.>

Roger,
Thanks for your imput.  I downloaded a trial version
of GF Print Pro and it works fine on my G5 10.3.3 and
CS.  They have three different versions of GF and the
$300 dollar program is Print Pro.  They do have two
other programs running GF for considerably less but
with fewer advantages.
Joe D. 









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I did a fair amount of testing with GF and frankly was disappointed.  
I felt that I could easily do better in PS going in small steps with 
variable sharpening along the way.  I friend of mine is currently 
working with a top name person in digital printing who has said that 
he prefers Fred Miranda's stair interpolation routine to GF.

The term "lossless" is very misleading here... even nearest neighbor 
interpolation is "lossless."  What you need is predictive 
interpolation which doesn't yet exist.

I'd try Miranda's routine which is probably something like $10 before 
shelling out $300 for GP.

mark

PS  I don't have any actual experience with FM stuff or the stair 
interpolator, but I have lots of friends who love his stuff.  

...
> > I'm wondering if any of you are using Genuine Fractals.  On the 
face of it,
> > the 
> > program sounds good.  Lizard asserts that one can take a small 
file and
> > enlarge it withous loss of any kind.  For example, one can take a 
file that
> > prints 
> > at 8x10 satisfactorily but at 16x20 is unacceptable and using 
Genuine
> > Fractals can enlarge to 16x20 "lossless" or even larger and have 
the same
> > sharpness one had at 8x10.  I'm thinking that if the deal sounds 
to be too
> > good 
> > to be true it probably isn't true.  I downloaded a trial version 
and frankly
> > it 
> > looks good to me.  But, before springing for $300.00, I'd 
appreciate imput
> > from 
> > those who may be experienced using the program.  Any thoughts on 
this
> > issue?  Thanks in advance.
...