The problem begins when you have a really great image, but because you shot it with your point-and-shoot camera, you can get a decent 8 x 10 inch print, but what is going to happen when want to take it larger? Or your DSLR does great to 11 x 14, but you want to make a 20 x 30? Well that is where Perfect Resize 7 comes in. It will do all the work for you when it comes to creating crystal clear enlargements of your images.
This new version of Perfect Resize 7 represents a rebranding of onOne's image resizing product Genuine Fractals. Perfect Resize 7 is a Adobe Photoshop Plug-in that will allow you to enlarge your images over 1000% with no loss in quality or detail. It also allows you to crop and resize your image in a single step. By using the plug-in, all that you have to do is open the image in workspace, select the size of print that you want to produce, and select the resolution best for your printer. Perfect Resize does the rest.
What is new in Perfect Resize 7
• Smoothness Control allows you to adjust the smoothness of curved edges to minimize artifacts. This feature is very useful when resizing images and is especially valuable when working with lower resolution source files or when an extreme crop is required from a higher resolution source file.
• Loupe Tool will give photographers an instant 1:1 or 100% magnified preview of enlargement quality while still seeing the entire image with the Loupe function of the Navigator.
• Presets will let you achieve consistent results in less time by saving commonly used settings with the new Presets feature. If you routinely send images to labs you will benefit by creating a preset that allows them to resize the image, apply a specific sharpening amount and apply a gallery wrap all in one step. For those stock photographers who need to resize batches of images before submitting them, you will also benefit from this new feature.
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Article comments
1 - chris Autio
I couldn't see any improvement that photoshop raw file app can't do that Perfect Resize 7 does. Compared to an image opened in raw 16 bit, and size your image to large, an identical image opened in Perfect Resize 7 really is comparable. I can't see the difference. Lots of hoopla unless you want to border a canvas print with an edge. Save your money. Also it is really slow, and I am running 12 gb ram.
2 - Catherine F.
I could see the difference between Photoshop CS4 and Perfect Resize. My Photoshop teacher taught me to carefully resize slowly bit-by-bit by closing after each resizing and still I noticed that Resize 7 kept the edges as well as sharpened in one step.
Time is money for a professional photographer. Pay it one time and move on.
3 - Mark H.
Running Photoshop CS5. I enlarged a picture to twice its size using perfect resize. I then compared it Photoshop resize. IDENTICAL. Don't waste your money, thank God it was a trial.
4 - Ann B
If i kick up my ppi number first - say to 800 and then resize it up, won't that do the same thing? If not, why not?
5 - DPC
I bought the full suite as it was on sale. While there are other reasons that buying the set made it worthwhile, Perfect Resize 7 is not.
Enlarging the same photos (605x605, 72dpi of some furry animals) to (2605x2605, 72dpi) - in Photoshop CS 5.1 (Mac, 64-bit) did show a difference... hate to say it, but Photoshop 5.1 did a better job - there is less blotchy artifacting (looks like a fine pointillistic painting when shown at 100%), though to be fair the Photoshop resize did have a slightly more visible jagginess to the lines. Still, as far as resizing goes, Adobe and CS5.1 take the cake by far and the upgrade price for it is not much more expensive than PR7 Pro.
Older versions of Photoshop may not do as good of a job at enlarging compared to PR7, but - so far - CS5.1 does outdo PR7 and by a visible margin.