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Genuine Fractals 6 is available in a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition. The table below outlines the differences between the two editions. The table below outlines the differences between the two editions. Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition Photoshop plugin is the industry standard for image resizing. 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.

1. Description Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition Photoshop plugin is the industry standard for image resizing. 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.
2. Genuine Fractals 6 comes in two editions – a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition and are available for $299.95 and $159.95 respectively direct from onOne Software and select, authorized resellers in the United States and around the world. Upgrades from previous versions of Genuine Fractals are available for $99.95. Genuine Fractals 6.

Genuine Fractals 6 adds several new features designed to help photographers get the best enlargements possible. The improvements include include texture presets, gallery wrap function, batch processing, tiling for smaller printers and support for Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2. Available in November, Genuine Fractals 6 is available in a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition for $299.95 and $159.95 respectively.

onOne Software Press Release

onOne Software Announces Genuine Fractals 6

The industry standard for resizing images to any size adds several new features and includes support for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

New York, NY (October 23, 2008) PhotoPlus Expo Booth #1055 – onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announced Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition and Genuine Fractals 6 Standard Edition. Genuine Fractals 6 adds several new features designed to help photographers get the best enlargements possible. These new features include texture presets, a new gallery wrap function, batch processing, tiling for smaller printers and support for Adobe® Photoshop® CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 2.

Available in November, Genuine Fractals 6 represents onOne Software’s continuing commitment to provide photographers with the industry standard for resizing images with no loss in image quality and sharpness.

“Genuine Fractals has been the go-to application of professional photographers for high-quality image resizing for over a decade,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. “Due to significant improvements in digital cameras enjoyed by photographers and ready access to large format printers, it’s become more important then ever to improve the feature set and functionality of Genuine Fractals.”

“A key strength of Photoshop is that it provides users with many choices on how to complete any task, so that you can always find the best tool for the job,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for professional digital imaging at Adobe. “When it comes to the common task of resizing images, Genuine Fractals further expands those choices so that customers can be assured of getting the best results.”

New Features in Genuine Fractals 6
Texture Presets – Genuine Fractals 6 now includes texture presets allowing photographers to get the most out of the patented resizing algorithm that powers Genuine Fractals. The presets are designed to give users an easy way to set the key algorithm parameters to get the highest quality enlargement based on the type of image the user is starting out with no matter the size or subject matter.

New Gallery Wrap Feature – Photographers are often faced with losing part of their subject when some of the image is wrapped around the thick frames used to create canvas gallery wrap prints. With Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition, photographers have an easy way to increase the edge areas of the image by reflecting or stretching the margins to allow for canvas wrapping without having to sacrifice important details in the image.

New Batch Processing – Photographers who need to resize multiple images can now do so in a very efficient workflow thanks to the new Batch Processing feature in Genuine Fractals 6. Based on the Batch Processing Engine developed initially for onOne Software’s PhotoTools Professional Edition, photographers can choose which files to resize, change file names, save files to a new location and file type, change and embed a specific color space to the new file and optionally add a customized watermark to help protect the photographers work.

Tiling for Smaller Printers – This new tiling feature allows photographers to resize their images to any desired size and then have Genuine Fractals 6 create the necessary documents so that the image can be printed on a smaller format printer. For example if the photographers desired output size is 24” x 30” but their printer can only print a maximum size of 8” x 10” they can use the new tiling feature to break the final 24” x 30” file into a matrix of nine 8” x 10” images that are returned as separate files in Photoshop.

Support for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1 – In addition to support for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition will also support Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1 putting the industry standard for image resizing inside these photography workflow applications.

Additional Enhancements – Several other features of Genuine Fractals have been improved including the document size presets which make resizing and cropping to fit much easier; an improved crop tool that allows photographers to define a crop in any direction as well as additional user experience improvements.

Genuine Fractals Editions Compared
Genuine Fractals 6 is available in a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition. The table below outlines the differences between the two editions.

Genuine Fractals 6
Feature Description Professional Edition Standard Edition
Resize images up to 1000% Yes Yes
Control new pixel detail in continuous tone areas Yes Yes
Control new pixel detail on edges to eliminate edge halos Yes Yes
Apply sharpening based on luminosity only Yes Yes
Add simulated film grain for perceptual sharpness Yes Yes
Includes over 60 document size presets for common photographic, paper and video sizes Yes Yes
Save your own custom presets Yes Yes
Supports cropping and resizing in one step Yes Yes
Supports resizing RGB images Yes Yes
Supports resizing grayscale images Yes Yes
Supports resizing CMYK images Yes No
New texture presets Yes Yes
New batch processing Yes Yes
New auto tiling feature for small format printers Yes Yes
New automatic gallery wrap feature Yes No
New support for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Yes No
New support for Apple Aperture 2.1 Yes No

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Availability and Pricing
Genuine Fractals 6 comes in two editions – a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition and are available for $299.95 and $159.95 respectively direct from onOne Software and select, authorized resellers in the United States and around the world. Upgrades from previous versions of Genuine Fractals are available for $99.95. Genuine Fractals 6 is also available as part of Plug-In Suite 4, an integrated suite of six plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1.

Genuine Fractals 6 does not support the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4 for Windows but does support the 32-bit versions of Photoshop CS4 for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Genuine Fractals 6 may be pre-ordered immediately from onOne Software at www.ononesoftware.com and will be available through the worldwide network of authorized resellers in early December 2008. Customers who pre-order Genuine Fractals 6 will receive a copy of Genuine Fractals 5 initially and then will receive a free upgrade to Genuine Fractals 6. For a complete list of authorized resellers, please visit http://www.ononesoftware.com/resellers/.

About onOne Software
onOne Software, Inc. a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, develops time-saving software solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers. onOne Software solutions have been created to help photographers spend more of their time behind the camera taking pictures instead of the computer workstation. Such solutions include a wide range of easy-to-use plug-in enhancements for Adobe® Photoshop®, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom®.

onOne Software delivers the highest quality software products to users by working with industry leaders and continuing to develop core technologies for professional photo solutions on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Founded in 2005, onOne Software is a privately held company located in Portland, Oregon. For additional information, visit www.ononesoftware.com or call 1-888-968-1468.

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Review Date: January 20th 2009
Author: Jon Canfield

Introduction

Image resizing is one of those topics that generates controversy. Not on the Canon versus Nikon level perhaps, but it seems that almost everyone has a strong opinion on how it should be done. Well, I'm one of those people with an opinion, but I'm also fickle enough to change my mind when something better comes along.

If you're only resizing images about 200% or so, Adobe Photoshop's own algorithms work just fine. Simply choose Image > Image Size and enter your new dimensions. Bicubic is a good overall choice, while Bicubic Smoother is good for enlarging and Bicubic Sharper for reducing image size. If you're going larger, it's time to consider a plug-in, and you have a wealth of choices available to you. To be honest, they all do a good job, but when it comes to our images, good is seldom good enough – we want the best and nothing less.

Over the years, I've used Fred Miranda's Resize actions, Photozoom Pro, Blow-up, and Genuine Fractals. I always shied away from the early versions of Genuine Fractals though because I didn't want to deal with a proprietary file format and the hassles that involved. Newer versions though have eliminated the need to save as a .STN file. Sure, it greatly reduces the size of the scaled image, but it's one more step in my workflow, and I have enough of those. Besides, it wasn't particularly fast at saving files, and I get impatient. When Genuine Fractals 5 came around, I changed my mind about the usefulness of this program. I still preferred the results from Alien Skin's Blow-up, but Genuine Fractals was greatly improved, and now a viable option if I was looking for a new program.

I recently had the opportunity to test out the latest release of Genuine Fractals - Genuine Fractals Professional 6 (Figure 1) from OnOne Software.

Ease of Use

Figure 1

If you've used any of the OnOne products, like PhotoTools, the new PhotoFrame 4, or Focal Point, you'll feel right at home with Genuine Fractals 6 as it uses the same general user interface design and color scheme. A large preview area takes up the bulk of the plug-in, and all controls are along the right side of the window. The Navigator view has presets for scaling the preview, or you can use the Zoom tool in the lower right corner to zoom in to a level you want for your work.

The main controls are broken into several groups, each of which can be collapsed to save space if you're not using them. Genuine Fractals 6 lets you size your image by either Pixel Dimensions or Document Size. When using Document Size, you can choose from several presets (Figure 2) for different types of output, including standard film and paper sizes. The plug-in also allows you to create your own custom preset sizes.

Figure 2

The next group of controls are for Texture (Figure 3). Texture is used to optimize the resizing based on the type of image you're resizing, with presets for portrait, landscape, and others.

Figure 3

Genuine Fractals 6 also includes Sharpening and Film Grain controls. While I would normally use Photoshop for my sharpening, I actually prefer the results in Genuine Fractals. Part of this is the larger preview area, letting me see the effect on the entire image with less work than I can in Photoshop, and part of it comes using the luminance information to produce what appears to be a slightly better sharpening algorithm that is less prone to halos and artifacts.

Along with a speed improvement, the resizing is better than ever. I commonly use Genuine Fractals to produce 40x60 prints from a 15MP camera. Using the Tiling feature, I've gone as large as 120x160 with very good results. Along with resizing, Genuine Fractals gives you control over how texture is applied to the resized image, whether to add film grain, and sharpening your image (Figure 4).

Figure 4

Not everyone is blessed with a large format printer, so resizing can be an issue – what do you print your poster on if all you have is a letter, or even 13' printer? With the new Tiling feature, you can select the size of each tile and let Genuine Fractals 6 determine how many tiles you'll need (Figure 5).

Figure 5

New to the Professional version is a Gallery Wrap feature that will automatically add the extra area to your image for creating a wrap around canvas print (Figure 6). The Gallery Wrap option gives you several methods of creating the new print area, so you can use the one that works best with the type of image you're printing. I find that Soft Stretch works best for most of my prints.

Figure 6

Both versions of Genuine Fractals 6 work with 16 bit files and in RGB and LAB modes. You can also work with layered Photoshop files. The Professional version adds support for CMYK images.

Genuine Fractals also has a Batch mode to process entire folders of images including multiple output types, embedding watermarks, and assigning profiles (Figure 7), which is sure to appeal to anyone doing a number of images at one time (I use this feature frequently when creating images for my publisher). The Professional version also includes a plug-in for Apple Aperture, and integrates with Adobe Lightroom.

Figure 7

Conclusion

Genuine Fractals Print Pro

Ratings (out of 5)
Features
Ease-of-Use	4.5
Value for Money

Genuine Fractals Software

Genuine Fractals Professional 6 is now the standard that I base all other resizing tools against. The performance is very good, and more importantly, the results are outstanding. OnOne Software has done a great job with this upgrade, making it a worthwhile purchase for current or new users. The price isn't the lowest you'll find for this category of plug-in, but the results are second to none. Genuine Fractals Professional 6 is $299.95. A standard version, without the Gallery Wrap feature, Aperture or Lightroom plug-ins, and no CMYK support is $159.95.