Genuine Fractals 5

by Onone Software

Product Features

• Scale your images over 1000%
• Essential for large format printing
• 1 User

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000QXD2TC
• Item model number: GFS-50211
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 22, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,308 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Enlarge your images over 1000% with no loss in image quality. Genuine Fractals 5 simply produces higher quality and sharper results than traditional scaling methods in Photoshop or in any other third party product.

Genuine Fractals 5 is the industry standard in image resizing.

Resize your image over 1000% without losing sharpness and edge detail.

Make a high-quality print from a cropped section.

What's New in Genuine Fractals 5
Genuine Fractals 5 is a revolutionary step forward for image enlargements. We've taken the industry standard and given it a complete overhaul. New scaling technology, faster performance, new features, new user interface, greater ease of use and much more. Compare Genuine Fractals 5 to any Photoshop scaling method or other third party plug-in, Genuine Fractals 5 is the industry standard in image resizing.

New Features:

• New scaling algorithm--We overhauled the patented scaling algorithm to now allow for over 1000% enlargements with no loss in detail
• Multi-processor Support--Optimized for multiple processors, including CPU hardware acceleration (SSE/AltiVec), up to 10x faster than the previous version
• Document Size Presets--Crop and resize your image in a single step
• Robust Layer Support--Supports Layers, Paths & Alpha Channels
• Texture Controls--Get that extra bit of detail out of your images
• Sharpening Controls--Save time by sharpening for output right in Genuine Fractals
• Film Grain Controls--Add simulated Film Grain for and extra sharp look
• Photoshop Action Support--Record actions for multiple sizes, batch process an entire folder easily
• New User Interface--Make your image the star of the show, not just a bunch of dials
• Support for Photoshop CS3--Universal Binary means fast native support for Intel processor powered Macintosh systems
• LAB Color Mode Support--Added Support for 8 & 16-bit LAB & Grayscale images
• "Show Me How" Tutorial Videos--New built-in videos so you get the most out of Genuine Fractals
• Automatic Update Checking--Make sure you always have the latest version

The Industry Standard for Image Enlargement
Genuine Fractals 5 is the industry standard for image resizing. It's renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect. Its patented, fractal based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for themselves.

Genuine Fractals 5 is a must for any photographer who makes large format and poster sized prints. It's also great for journalists, sports and wildlife photographers who may need to take a cropped section of an image and make a high-quality print from it. Genuine Fractals 5 can even work its magic with digital video still frames "up-rezzing" from standard-definition to high-definition video quality.

Graphic designers can end the everyday problem of receiving low resolution images from clients for high resolution print work such as magazine publications or tradeshow and billboard graphics.

Why should I use Genuine Fractals 5?
Resizing an image larger than the original size requires that new pixels be created. This process is called interpolation or up-rezzing. There are many mathematical ways, called algorithms, to do this. The most common method used by default by many pixel editing applications is called Bicubic Interpolation. Bicubic along with with its newer variants bicubic smoother and bicubic sharper work by averaging a small group of neighboring pixels to determine the color value of the new pixels to be added. While this technique is fast, it does not distinguish edges so there is a uniform loss of sharpness and detail across the image. Genuine Fractals and Bicubic Smoother Comparison

Genuine Fractals 5 patented algorithms work differently. It starts by analyzing ever-decreasing sizes of pixel blocks in your image looking for repeating natural patterns at different sizes. These are known as fractals. Fractals are common, naturally repeating patterns found everywhere. For example, a river system viewed from space has the same shape as the veins in a leaf. These are both fractal patterns at very different scales. The great thing about fractal patterns is once you find them they can be scaled to any size without loss in detail. This allows Genuine Fractals 5 to resize your image over 1000% without losing sharpness and edge detail.

Unmatched Image Resizing
Genuine Fractals 5 can resize your images over 1000% and still maintain sharp edges and minute details. To give you an idea of how big that is, you could take a full-frame image from a six megapixel image and resize it to make a print of 10x15 feet at 180 ppi! It is a must for any photographer or artist who makes large format or poster sized prints.

It is also great for journalists, sports and wildlife photographers who may need to take a cropped section of an image and still make a high-quality print from it. Cropping can leave you with very few pixels to work with.

If you where to crop this professional 12 megapixel image to keep just the antelope you would be left with only four megapixels of information, barely enough to make a good 5x7 print. However with Genuine Fractals 5 you could make a print over 6 feet tall.

Save Hard Disk Space and Bandwidth
Increasing the size and resolution of a file results in a larger file on disk. You can reduce the disk space needed and bandwidth when transferring files by saving your files into the Genuine Fractals 5 .STN format which provides lossless and visually lossless wavelet compression to cut your file size in half or more. Now you can store twice as many images on your hard drive and upload them in half the time. Long time users of Genuine Fractals remember having to save files as a .STN file before being able to scale the image. In Genuine Fractals 5, any file that is opened in Photoshop can be scaled in one easy step without having to save as a .STN file first.

Batch Processing with Genuine Fractals 5
Genuine Fractals 5 can be automated easily by using a Photoshop action. By default, Genuine Fractals 5 remembers its last used setting--however, you can create a Photoshop action to resize an entire folder of images at the same time.

Not Just for Photographers
Genuine Fractals 5 is not just for Photographers, but anyone who needs to resize images. Graphic designers can end the everyday problem of receiving low resolution images from clients for high resolution print work. Genuine Fractals 5 can also help you create tradeshow and billboard graphics from average sized images. Genuine Fractals 5 is also commonly used by service bureaus as well as law enforcement and architects for resizing small files.

Product Description

Enlarge your images over 1000% with no loss in image quality. Genuine Fractals 5 simply produces higher quality and sharper results than traditional scaling methods in Photoshop or in any other third party product. Scale your images over 1000%. Essential for large format printing. Quality is better than Photoshop bicubic smoother, 10% stair step interpolation or any other method. Great for medium to high resolution images that need to be enlarged, cropped images or digital video still frames

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuine Fractals Saved my bacon, February 29, 2008

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Robert C. Dawson "ArtMaker" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genuine Fractals 5 (CD-ROM)

Genuine fractals 5 does all it says it will ... and more. I'm a commercial artist. One of my clients needed some huge (and I mean huge) images for a trade show. Photoshop, as good as it is, couldn't give me the image quality I needed for these extreme enlargements: Genuine Fractals could, and did, without even breaking a sweat.

They have a demo, so give it a try.

As I said, when the chips were down, it saved my bacon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It works, slightly better than Photoshop for typical enlargements, June 13, 2008

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Birck (Philadelphia, PA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genuine Fractals 5 (CD-ROM)

GF does what it's supposed to do , it installs quickly and is fairly intuitive in its interface. It doesn't improve on the original; it merely enlarges the weaknesses.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It works, January 27, 2008

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Dan Milham (Slidell, La) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Genuine Fractals 5 (CD-ROM)

I recently enlarged a photo taken with a 6 megapixel HP photosmart camera to a size of 13x19 in. After a little smoothing in photoshop and using Genuine Fractals for the enlargement, I got a great looking picture.