The shells image in particular shows detail in the magnified version that could only have come from an original with more detail to begin with. I examined the 'before' and implied 'after' examples on their website. Having no first hand experience with Genuine Fractals, I have no idea what would happen with changing the settings, but I conclude that PhotoZoom Pro definitely has a place in the repertoire of photo tools. His image has less sharpness but also is a great improvement over Bicubic. His results were quite different than mine. While I was composing this, a friend with Genuine Fractals did the same enlargement with that program, though he just ran it through with default settings. They were really much better than Bicubic interpolation. Overall, I was very impressed with the results. The other areas of the image I was able to reproduce virtually identically to the sample image easily. I could reproduce nothing close to those results although this was not a thorough test. The developer's enlargement shows details that are very sharp in this area. The tricky part seems to be the light brown shell left of center at the top of the image. However, after considerable messing around with PhotoZoom Pro's settings, I was unable to exactly reproduce the developer's results.

The results were very impressive compared to Photoshop's standard Bicubic interpolation. (This can't really be considered a 'fair' comparison to the images on the website as they are probably compressed and may not be the actual sizes used originally, but I thought it would give a quick idea of what this software can do.) I took a screen capture of the 'before' image of the sea shells as shown on the developer's example page and ran it through PhotoZoom Pro 1.1.14. Personally I'd like to add this kind of software to my toolbox, if only I could afford it.Īfter reading some reviews here suggesting that the example enlargements on the developer's website were 'suspicious,' I decided to do a test. Of course it is a niche app, which makes the price go up, but I'd bet there are users using pirated/cracked copies of these apps, instead of purchasing. Still, if this app was priced more modestly, I'd maybe purchase it. A lot probably goes into research and development - or does it?Īnd apart from that I don't find its results to be THAT much better than straight Bicubic done with a bit of care in other image editing apps. Okay okay, this app has patented technology whatever. More expensive than a lot of full audio editing applications. This is the same situation as audio plug-ins. I have to enlarge and sell quite a few images to make this app worth its price. Alright alright, Genuine Fractals and Alien Skin's BlowUp kost $199 which pretty much equals the 149 EURO they are asking for this one.īUT, I don't care what others charge.

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