Product Description

Genuine Fractals 6 is the industry standard for image resizing. It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size 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 6 allows you to crop and resize your image in a single step with no guess work. Its new Tiling feature makes it easy to get your enlargements printed just the way you want. Fire up the batch processing engine to resize an entire folder of images quickly.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3336 in Software
• Brand: Onone Software
• Model: GFXE-60011
• Released on: 2009-01-27
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Tiling Feature: Now you can get large format printing from a small format printer. The tiling feature divides an enlargement into smaller pieces, preparing it for printing on a standard-sized printer.
• Batch Processing: Improved version of the onOne batch processing engine. This allows you to resize an entire folder of images to a consistent size and create up to two new versions of an image.
• Texture Presets: Genuine Fractals 6 now features texture presets for common image scenarios so even a novice user can get improved texture control results easily.

Customer Reviews

Great to enhance print quality
I have really enjoyed this plug in for Photoshop
Things to note
1. This works with Photoshop Element 6 &7 (may work with older versions but this is what I know works for my experience)
2. It does not work with the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4. OnOne's web site states they are working on this issue.

I have found this product allows me to control precisely size and pixels/inch. I can easily enlarge small or cropped images to a dpi needed for the particular printer I am using (I typically use Epson to print photos and 360dpi has been recommended).
I can enlarge photos without adding a bunch of digital noise and maintaining sharpness. I've only pushed to enlarge 200-300% though I know they say you can enlarge beyond that.

OnOne's web site has a lot of great info and some free plug-in. I highly recomend checking it out.

I bought this as part of OnOne's 4.5 suite of tools. It was well worth the investment.

License nightmare
This software comes with a combination of barriers which you have to use in order to install it. They use an intermediary service to handle registration. I first installed the trial software, then purchased the product before my trial period expired. This became another nightmare because every time I used the product I was reminded that I had x number of days until the trial expired. I purchased the software and installed it without first uninstalling the original. The few times I used the product it crashed my MacPro. I have finally decided to accept the fact that I threw money out the door because I am not about to waste time with their invisible licensing barrier that they put between you and OnOne.

Great Plugin for Photoshop
If you have to blowup images from time to time Genuine Fractals 6 is the best way I have found to do it yet! While it isn't the cheapest plugin around it is definitely worth the price. It allows you to bundle enlargements into batches and do them all at once or you can do them one at time as you need to enlarge an image. It works far better than the built in enlargement in photoshop.

Genuine Fractals also includes easy to understand video tutorials the installer directs you to once the plugin is installed on your computer. I would buy it again in a heartbeat.