From: Patrick Kelley (patrick@chronopsis.com)
Date: 02/27/02-09:41:10 AM Z
I have used Genuine Fractals in enlarging digital video stills to
print paper negatives for cyanotype. In my opinion, it's not nearly
as great an interpolator as claimed. The enlarged images are soft in
a strange way - to me they look like a Photoshop image with the
median filtered applied. I guess they have their own unique look. In
these cyanotypes I intended to maintain the original artifacts of the
video still; I found that simply using Photoshop with bicubic
interpolation (and sometimes adding a little noise afterwards)
achieved a better, more "honest" interpolation.
>I have never used the program. Usually I am interpolating down rather than
>up. I think it may also be more popular with people using digital cameras.
>If I interpolate up in Photoshop I use Bicubic interpolation.
>
>In a message dated 2/27/02 1:47:24 AM, jseigel@panix.com writes:
>
><< Perhaps someone will kindly explain, for instance, what it
>does that Photoshop or Sprintscan alone don't do, and how important it
>would be to pursuit of inkjet negs. >>
-- Patrick Kelley http://www.patrickkelley.org http://www.chronopsis.com
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