Genuine Fractals / Perfect Resize

Dreadnote

I am wondering if anyone has any practical experience with this software. What are the limitations? For example, I'm trying to make posters from images shot in dark middle school gyms at high ISO values. The images look ok as 5x7's or some even as 8x10's but that is really pushing it. Will I be able to make 20x30's or larger with this software? Can I do heavy cropping and still get a decent picture? It seems like somewhere something has got to give. I'm just curious if anyone knows where that point is?

Art Scott

In Photoshop: open full sized jpg file then goto image then image size and clik a dialogue box opens showing the various elements of the image size als othere may be boxes checked toward the bottom {scale styles (do not check), constrain proportions (do check), Resample Image (DO NOT CHECK) } now change the DPI until you ahve got the image as close to 8x10 that you can get.....I am crazy about the 4x5 aspect ratio and that is the way I do it...change to meet your aspect ratio needs........now look at that image at full print size(8x10), does it look really good if so then GF will make you an enlargement equally as good...I do not shoot sports and I hate to have to push the iso above 200 and 400 for anything ....back to the question.......I will 1 time take your full sized full rez jpg and up rez it for you at no cost to let you see what it will do...I have no connection with OnOne or Genuine fractals other than AI have been using it for many years and bought my 1st copy from the original company Lizard Tech......I do not know if the trial offer is still unwatermarked and a totally full working copy as it used to be....a couple of yrs back the trial offer was good for 30 days and 20 uprezes and allowed a preview so you could decide if that image was good enough to up rez......
I love my GF and will not enlarge an image past 8x10 with out using it....according to my PRO lab said it was better than their RIP softwares and that sold me.....I no longer have to settle for HUUUUGE enlargement that you have to stand back 10, 20 or maore feet to properly view the image...any enlagement I sell upto 40x60 or 80x120 inches can be viewed nose to the paper and see no or extremely little grain..........

The better the pic the better the uprez....it limits are around 600-800% .....lasted rating I saw was able to do over 1000% but that has to be a very well controlled exposures and all......it is only as good as the image it starts with....the very old adage crap in crap out is very true with GF......
Another key thing is to not sharpen the image before taking it into GF....it seems to work better on un sharpened images.......I have uprez images that were sharpened with no noticeable problems when printed.

Dreadnote

That is great information Art. Thanks a lot. I'm sold. I'm going to experiment a bit with the trial version while I work out the details of what size and how many posters I'm going to need. Thanks again.

Art Scott

have fun ....it is great software......I love it.