Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Don't know Genuine Fractals. Getting a TIFF out of a basic (1-layer, 4-channels) PSD (Photoshop native format) does usually not increase the filesize, as it's practically the same information. Getting a TIFF out of a 100% quality JPG can increase the size with factor up to 10 or even more. And when you change the mode from 8bit to 16bit the size increases with a factor higher than 2. Kind regards from Zurich-Wollishofen Didier >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