If you’re looking to print large photos and have them look their best, this is the right tool for you. I admit that I’m a fan of OnOne’s other plugins, and either by itself or as part of the OnOne Perfect Photo Suite, Perfect Resize is a tool that I would highly recommend to both amateur and pro shooters alike. Perfect Resize is the perfect name for this software. Perfect Resize Gallery Wrap Effect Summary I’ll begin with the Photoshop version: Perfect Resize vs Photoshop That’s equal to an increase in size of 256 percent. Let’s now take a look at the difference between the detail in a output of a 21 mp file that has been resized to a 48 X 32 inch size (14,400 px X 9,600 px) from the original 18.72 X 12.48 inch size (5,616 px X 3,744 px). Sharpening images is a vital step in working on your digital images, and without sharpening your photos you’ll risk having your final output look dull or soft. You might want to test this out for yourself to see what works best for your photos. I typically sharpen my images near the end of my retouching and therefore don’t need to sharpen anymore in Perfect Resize. I rarely use the Sharpening in Perfect Resize, because of my Photoshop workflow. I find that I’m usually fine with one of the presets.

Take your time to play with the settings until you get the desired effect. You’ll want to view the results of the Texture Control and Sharpening at the 1:1 setting to really see the results. Commercial printers vary, but typically it is also 300 PPI. Typically Epson printers are set to 240 or 360 PPI, Canon at 300 PPI. If you’re not sure what to set it at for printing, check the instructional manual of your printer, and if you’re using a commercial printer to send your files to, ask them what resolution they print at before you go any further. Make sure that you set the proper resolution for your printer under Resolution. Fit is also used for when you are printing on canvas with a gallery wrap, and this is another cool feature of Perfect Resize that I’ll get into a bit later on as well. Within the Navigator, use Fit to do your cropping or if you’re using a standard preset. I’ll show some impressive examples later in the review. It’s much like the one in Photoshop, however, this navigator allows you to the image at 1:1 scale giving you a great preview of what the final output will look like.

If you go back to the Tools-1 image, you’ll notice the Navigator at the top. As you see, Document Size is rather self-explanatory, so let’s dig in a little further to see some of the other features. The controls are intuitive and I found it very easy to navigate within the Perfect Resize interface.

This is a photo of the interior of the Cathédrale Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris. For example, you can take a 12 mp image and resize it up to 6 feet (182 cm) on the short side! Let’s take a look at some of the cool features in Perfect Resizeįor this first example, I’ll use a photograph with a lot of intricate detail. With Perfect Resize you can blow up your images up to 10 times their original size and your images still look fantastic. While many of today’s point and shoot cameras are in the 10-12 megapixel range and the pro DSLRs can get up to 23 megapixels, we still need to interpolate our photos to print them at the large poster sizes that we would like. Trying to do this in Photoshop will lead to a loss of sharpness and detail, resulting in prints that look out of focus and dull. No, you can’t take a small jpg image and blow it up to mural size with Perfect Resize, but you can do some incredible image interpolation with minimal side effects. No product is perfect and yet this is one piece of software that comes pretty darn close to being perfect (in my opinion). Read on to see how this is done, and remember, this is not a product just for pros, it’s easy to use and will help pro and amateur photographers alike. Genuine Fractals has been the industry standard for many years now, in helping photographers create poster-sized prints and even billboard-sized images. Well, I’m thinking we have another one here with Perfect Resize (formerly known as Genuine Fractals). Other brand names that have become synonymous with their product are Band-Aid, Kleenex, Aspirin, Jacuzzi, and Scotch Tape. For example in digital photography, no one has come close to Adobe Photoshop, and it would almost seem futile to attempt to compete with such a great piece of software. Some products stand out from the crowd and become the measuring stick of all competitors.

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