Digital BW, The Print

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> Last week I tried the trail version of Genuine fractals print pro to
> up size an 35mm neg to 10x8, it took an hour to process on a G4 Mac
> with 1 gb memory. The original scan was 20 mg and the final print
> over 100mg! So I have decided to go for the MrSid photoshop plugin.
> It is claimed that a 20 mg can be reduced to 1 mg , opened in
> Photoshop without detail loss, worked on and saved either in MrSid or
> TIFF.

Did you try the 'compressed' option in Genuine Fractals?  It would make sense that bumping a small image up to
8x10 would increase the files size.  You don't mention what dpi you saved the 8x10 to.

Also, you could have saved that 100 MG image as a '12' (top) quality jpg, or as a LZW compressed tiff, to
knock down the size.

We too, have found that when you bump an image way up in genuine fractals, it take a lot of computing power.
We assumed that was due to the complex algorithms used to effectively 'fill in the dots' between the original
pixels.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC


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