Dave's Favorites: Enlarging Pictures With Genuine Fractals
So, you've got a great picture that you want to use for 8-by-10s. The only problem? The resolution is too low, and your attempts to print it have not met with success. What to do?
Try Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals. It's a plug-in filter for Adobe PhotoShop that works in any image editor that uses PhotoShop plug-ins. Genuine Fractals delivers "resolution on demand." Essentially, it allows you to enlarge digital images to several times their original size. The program uses some fiendishly complex fractal mathematics--which may as well be magic as far as I'm concerned--to scale the picture up without the tell-tale pixilation you'd usually get from enlarging a digital image.
Genuine Fractals has its limits, of course. You can't make a billboard-size image from a 1-megapixel photo and expect it to look good. On the other hand, I've used the program to make posters from 3.3-megapixel images, and the results are nothing short of astonishing.
Genuine Fractals comes with some digital cameras, or you can buy it for $159 at the Adobe Web site.
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