[Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?

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At 12:47 PM 10/13/2004, you wrote:
>I have decided to see if I can sell some photos via a UK stock agency. 
>Maybe I can pay for a lens this way, who knows. Anyway, they have minimum 
>size requirements (48 MB for color, 16 MB for grayscale) and suggest 
>Genuine Fractals for upsampling if needed. I checked on their web site, 
>and the version I would need is $150 with no free trial period. So, before 
>I buy: is this any good? Specifically, if I need to turn an 18 MB 
>Photoshop file into a 48 MB TIFF file, will the results be any good? Or am 
>I just wasting my money?
>
>TIA,
>Nathan

Nathan -  With the new PhotoShop CS, you don't need GF.  Lots of studies 
have been done to prove that PS does an even better job than GF.  For 
enlarging the size, use bicubic smoother, for making a smaller file use 
bicubic sharper.  Quality really depends on how much noise you have in the 
photo to start with.  Photos taken with the Canon 10D at 100 ISO easily go 
to 48 MB.  For higher ISOs you might have to work with the photo a little 
more.  Are you thinking of Alamy?

Tina


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