Digital BW, The Print

I did a fair amount of testing with GF and frankly was disappointed.  
I felt that I could easily do better in PS going in small steps with 
variable sharpening along the way.  I friend of mine is currently 
working with a top name person in digital printing who has said that 
he prefers Fred Miranda's stair interpolation routine to GF.

The term "lossless" is very misleading here... even nearest neighbor 
interpolation is "lossless."  What you need is predictive 
interpolation which doesn't yet exist.

I'd try Miranda's routine which is probably something like $10 before 
shelling out $300 for GP.

mark

PS  I don't have any actual experience with FM stuff or the stair 
interpolator, but I have lots of friends who love his stuff.  

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> > I'm wondering if any of you are using Genuine Fractals.  On the 
face of it,
> > the 
> > program sounds good.  Lizard asserts that one can take a small 
file and
> > enlarge it withous loss of any kind.  For example, one can take a 
file that
> > prints 
> > at 8x10 satisfactorily but at 16x20 is unacceptable and using 
Genuine
> > Fractals can enlarge to 16x20 "lossless" or even larger and have 
the same
> > sharpness one had at 8x10.  I'm thinking that if the deal sounds 
to be too
> > good 
> > to be true it probably isn't true.  I downloaded a trial version 
and frankly
> > it 
> > looks good to me.  But, before springing for $300.00, I'd 
appreciate imput
> > from 
> > those who may be experienced using the program.  Any thoughts on 
this
> > issue?  Thanks in advance.
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