Digital BW, The Print

I've used GF for a couple of years.  It works great, but:  unless it has changed recently, it doesn't support 16 bit files.  Also, it is 'lossless'.  That desn't mean that it sharpens your image.  It means that what you give it at a small diminsion will be enlarged without losing any of the existing sharpness.  So, if you want to go from 5x7 to, say, 30x40, you can expect to get the same look AT AN APPROPRIATE VIEWING DISTANCE for the bigger image.  If you look at the resulting 30x40 up close, you will see what looks like a loss of sharpness.  If you've got high pixel density images to start with, you can go quite big with very good results.

I'm not sure, however, that some of the other products on the market aren't just as good.  And maybe chearper, like FREE.

 

Tom Baker



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