Genuine Fractals Print Pro [continued]

Blowing it up
On more geometric images, the differences between native interpolation and fractal resizing are more obvious. We'll blow up a 72 DPI JPEG image of a skyscraper to 800 percent its original size.

Photoshop Interpolation	Genuine Fractals Print Pro

The result from Genuine Fractals is a much sharper image that manages to maintain detail while smoothing out pixel edges. Because of the limitations of the Web, I can't really show you the true output of Print Pro, but, even in JPEG form, the differences stand out.

Performance and overall value
Genuine Fractals takes a lot of RAM. A lot! But the operations are fairly quick. The first example we used took about three seconds running on a G4 400 MHz Mac. The second took about 25 seconds. Photoshop's native interpolation took about half the time on the first one and about one-tenth the time on the second. But the difference in the quality of the final output makes up for the speed. Still, don't expect to take a small graphic and blow it up to an 8" x 10" image. It's just not going to look right. But for times when you need some additional resolution on an image, Genuine Fractals Print Pro is an excellent tool.

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