Digital BW, The Print

For the sake of anyone else following this thread and George's 
recommendations regarding Genuine Fractals, here is an older message of 
his from the Piezo list:


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  Message 8354 of 8396
From:  "George DeWolfe" <dewolfe@m...>
Date:  Sun May 6, 2001  3:23 pm
Subject:  Re: [piezoBW] Piezography and Genuine Fractals



OK,OK
If you have a drum scanner, you don't need Genuine Fractals. 
You will need it for the Imacon Flextite, however, if you go up to 
16x20, because it's not a true drum. If you have any other type of 
scanner - flatbed with transparency unit or film scanner, and you 
are scanning negatives or transparencies - you need Genuine 
Fractals. 

This is how I scan:

1)  Scan 4x5 @ 100% with a minimum of 720ppi.
      Scan 120 @ 100% with a minimum of 1000ppi.
      Scan 35mm @  100% at maximum scanner optical            
resolution.
2)  Edit image.
3)  Save As Genunine Fractals and "fractal up" to the size print 
you want, at the original resolution(the one at which you 
scanned). At 16x20 or 13x19 your files will be large(some of 
mine are 200+ MB). You CAN Unsharp Mask a small amount 
after "fractaling up."

I have Genuine Fractals Print Pro version, but the smaller 
Genuine Fractals works ok, too. The only difference is that the 
smaller GF handles only grayscale and RGB files, while the Print 
Pro version includes CMYK and Lab.

John Santoro at Apple told me about this software when it first 
came out. I couldn't live without it on my "ordinary" Espon 
1640XL.

Buy it!

George
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Otherwise, Julian, I think Martin's answer covers your GF question.

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> I am sorry to report that George has left the group as well as the 
> Piezo group overwhelmed by the volume of posts the two lists 
> generates and the demands of his own schedule.
[....]
> Martin
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
> <julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> > Hi George,
> > After my qs to the list re what to do with an epson 1680, I've now 
> got your
> > article from Camera Arts. I have 2 questions: why do you say that 
> it is
> > important not to allow the scanner software to set a size, but to 
> output at
> > 100% and resize in GF?