Re: Genuine Fractals....MrSid

["John Nollendorfs" <sinar1@binary.net>]

Ursula:
I did the same test using the downloaded demo over a year ago. Same
conclusion as you reached. 

I think where people get confused is that GF must do some sharpening in its
algorithm, so if you just interpolate using PS without sharpening, the GF
results look better. 

John Nollendorfs
JN Photography
Lincoln, NE

> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:58:46 -0600
> From: Ursula Freer <freer1@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: Genuine Fractals....MrSid
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just want to share an experiment with you I did with Genuine Fractals (a
> friends Program) First is took a 16 MB image, interpolated it in
> Photoshop by doing it in 4 steps and each time putting it through an
> unsharpen filter (med.settg.) ending up with an approx. 80 MB image.
> 
> Then I enlarged in with Gen.Fractals (one step) to the same size. I then
> selected the same area, same size from both and printed it out. There
> was no difference at all!
> 
> Am I using faulty logic here, or are the four steps in PS with
> sharpening making up the
> difference? 

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