Genuine Fractals 5 is a revolutionary step forward for image enlargements. The new Genuine Fractals 5 Photoshop plugin has received a complete overhaul that combines new scaling technology, faster performance, new features, new user interface and greater ease of use that makes this industry standard Photoshop plug-in even better than before.

The Industry Standard for Image Enlargement

Genuine Fractals 5 is the industry standard for image resizing. As a Photoshop plugin, it is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well 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.

Click here for larger view. In this example, the results of Genuine Fractals 5 are compared to the results from Photoshop Bicubic Smoother.

Better than Bicubic — or any other resizing method

The patented, fractal-based scaling algorithm found only in Genuine Fractals is superior to any resizing algorithm found within Photoshop (bicubic variations) or in any other third-party plug-in or stand-alone application. There is some serious heavy-hitting math going on behind the scenes but basically Genuine Fractals examines your image for naturally repeating patterns and once it finds them, uses them to increase your image to any size you desire. The result is an enlarged file that maintains the edges and the color values from your original file without introducing any artifacts, blurring or halos around edges. Click the image to the left/right to see for yourself.

Click here for larger view. See the new, modern user interface for Genuine Fractals 5 that exposes the key variables to the patented algorithm.

Why Should I Use Genuine Fractals 5?

When you resize an image larger than the original requires new pixels to be created. This process is called interpolation and is also referred to as up-rezzing. There are several different methods, called algorithms, to calculate these new pixels. The most common method used by most pixel editing applications is called Bicubic Interpolation.

Bicubic, along with its newer variants, Bicubic Smoother and Bicubic Sharper, work by averaging a small group of neighboring pixels together to determine the color value of the new pixels to be added. While this method is fast, it does not distinguish edges so there is a uniform loss of sharpness and detail across the entire image.

Genuine Fractals in your Workflow

For most, using Genuine Fractals 5 plugin for Photoshop should be the second to the last step in your digital workflow. After you have made all of your other adjustments including color correction, compositing, adjustment layers and retouching is when you should resize your file using Genuine Fractals plug-in. The final step would be to apply your preferred method of sharpening. Be sure to try the sharpening offered within Genuine Fractals 5. The controls are similar to Photoshop's Unsharp Mask but the Genuine Fractals sharpening is only applied to Luminosity

Batch Processing with Genuine Fractals Plugin

By default Genuine Fractals 5 remembers its last used settings. This includes the scaling size. If you have several images that all need to be resized to the same time you can use a Photoshop action and the batch command to automate the process. Click here to download step-by-step instructions on how to do this.

How Large of an Image Can I Get Using Genuine Fractals?

Mouse-over the mega-pixel numbers at the top of this chart to view relative image sizes achieved with Genuine Fractals.

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More Genuine Fractals Plug-In Examples

Click on the thumbnail below to see an additional example of Genuine Fractals plugin for Photoshop.

Click here for larger view. This example compares a 400 percent increase with Genuine Fractals to a 400 percent increase with Bicubic Smoother. You can see that Genuine Fractals provides much sharper results maintaining the original detail.

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