Alien Skin

[samcisa]

Anybody used this for upsizing? Is it much better than "bicubic" from PS?

[originaljoie]

It's worth the time to download the trial and see what you think and also check out Genuine Fractals, they too offer an upsampling program as well. For me the results have always been better than in PS.

[peter_gilbert3]

Maybe a bit better than Bicubic Sharper, but not $200 better.

 

Peter

[eric_perlberg]

There was an interesting discussion about this at a Leica User Group (not photo.net). One

of the people who was talking about his prints with the new Leica M8 is David Adamson

(http://www.adamsoneditions.com/) who is one of the top printers in the world having

done editions for Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander, William

Christianbury and tonne of other big name photogs and artists.

 

In his comments on a the quality of the M8 (he likes it a lot) he said that he always uses

Alien Skin's Blowup rather than PS's bicubic for upsizing and adds a touch of grain (and his

images are not generally grainy b/w street photos) using Alien Skin's Exposure (Alien Skin

being the manufacturer and not a product).

[eric_perlberg]

PS, he said he prefers BlowUp (Alien Skin) to Genuine Fractals.