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DESCRIPTION
PhotoZoom Pro (formerly known as S-Spline Pro) is based on S-Spline XL, a renewed and improved version of our patented self-adjusting, many times awarded S-Spline interpolation technology. As we did with S-Spline, our S-Spline XL technology again introduces a revolutionary breakthrough in digital image enlargement. It is able to render sharp and crisp clear image magnifications perfectly focused, yet without the jagged edges, loss of detail, or lack of photorealism that normally come with enlarging images.
Many professionals are familiar with the problem; quality loss caused by digital image magnification. In many cases a great deal of time is spent on achieving only a fairly acceptable enlargement result, however there are familiar side effects including out-of-focus images and serrated edges which is illustrative for the lack of professional magnification software.
The software is perfectly suited for digital photography, large printing, DTP, web design and online publishing, but also for industrial image processing such as space technology, security, medical, and forensic applications.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0.6:
- New & improved S-Spline interpolation technique: S-Spline Max
- Higher quality image enlargements & higher quality downsizing
- Makes short work of interpolation artifacts, such as halos
- Film Grain functionality for an increased natural look
- Multi-processor support: huge speed increase!
- Now works as a stand-alone application and as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in for Photoshop
- Increased image support (metadata, ICC profiles, color spaces, layers, 16 bits/channel (including Raw) and 32 bits/channel (HDR) images, etc)
- Can also be applied as a Photoshop Action
- Compatible with the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Adobe Photoshop
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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| PhotoZoom Pro User Reviews (20 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 14 2009 |
DENNIS_H Can anybody say whether this version or the previous version beats Genuine Fractals Print Pro? We have several copies of GFPP and would like to move to this for batch processing if the quality is equivalent or better.
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| Jul 16 2009 |
SCOTT_E_COLLINS I generally like PZPro's results better than GF's. Sometimes the difference is small, sometimes quite significant. Haven't got much experience yet with this new v3, but it seems to produce more detailed results than v2, whereas GF sometimes produces somewhat fuzzy results. Note that PZ Pro (when using S-Spline Max) takes longer to process than GF, but worth the difference imho (and not an issue if you batch I guess).
(Version 3.0.2) | |
| Jul 14 2009 |
MAC MAIL I still very much like the PZ Pro coz I use it everyday for my work, but I guess I'll stay away from updating it to V3 for a while. It's quite expensive. For those who like the same effects (not very far from the results of PZ) but a whole lot cheaper (free). Try this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/31807/imageenlarger I've tested it and the results look very decent. The price is $0.00 I still love PZoom tho!
(Version 3.0.2) | |
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 | Jul 13 2009 |
MACTECHHEAD I never tried the old version discussed below. But I really liked this version. Did exactly what I wanted with great results. Excellent product and well worth the asking price. Thanks for the great work on PhotoZoom Pro !!
(Version 3.0) | |
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 | Jul 4 2009 |
MR. SPOCK When the new "S-Spline Max" is selected, the result looks like "nearest neighbour" is used instead. I hope this will be fixed soon.
(Version 3.0) | |
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 | Jul 14 2009 |
MAC_ROGER As one of the programmers of PhotoZoom Pro 3, I'm pleased to inform you that this has been fixed (see new version on our website). This issue occurred on some PowerPC systems, but now it produces the correct result everywhere.
(Version 3.0.2) | |
| Jul 1 2009 |
MAC MAIL Using PZ for years. Tested and compared the 2.3.4 and this 3. I prefer to stay with the v2.
(Version 3.0) | |
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| Jul 2 2009 |
HOLYPOLY Please, can you be more specific why you preferred v2 to v3.
(Version 3.0) | |
| Jul 2 2009 |
http://members.shaw.ca/bmsound/A_002.jpg It's a screenshot that I did. The left was done with V3 and the right was done with V2.3.4 They were both enlarged to 12" wide 200 dpi in Generic mode from a original at 4" wide at 144 dpi. Absolutely no other enhancement were done on either one. The V3 process took 4 times longer than the V2. That's my 2 cents.
(Version 3.0) | |
| Jul 2 2009 |
HOLYPOLY Thank you very much, I appreciate your reply!
(Version 3.0) | |
| Jul 2 2009 |
MAC MAIL You're welcome. I'm not putting PZ down. I still love the app. I just can't see paying about $100 to upgrade to V3 from V2 with the results no better than the older version. Maybe the developer should reconsider the upgrade price, or I just wait until the next version.
(Version 3.0) | |
| Jul 14 2009 |
MAC_ROGER Mac Mail, please see my comment above. This was indeed an issue on some PowerPC systems, but it's been fixed. Current version should give correct results. I hope you're willing to give it another try!
(Version 3.0.2) | |
| Mar 14 2008 |
BACKPACKER Using the same 5MP JPEG as before, I tried 200% pixel-size enlargement. The PZP stand-alone app. produced a 9.7MB file, while the GFPP plug-in made a 6.4MB image, both set for best quality. Side-by-side Preview magnifications show the GFPP image to be more defined.
(Version 2.3.2) | |
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| Mar 13 2008 |
BACKPACKER I've just tried the Genuine Fractals PrintPro 5.0.4 and the PhotoZoom Pro 2.3.2 CS3 plug-ins on a 5MP JPEG (732KB) for 1000% pixel-size enlargement. PZP took about 38 minutes on a G4-dual 1.33GHz (upgraded) Mac with 1.5GB RAM, both CPUs just over 70% mark. The resulting image was over 216MB with same quality as the original JPEG. GFPP used full capacity from both CPUs, and never completed it's task; many minutes into the process, CS3 froze.
(Version 2.3.2) | |
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| Mar 14 2008 |
BACKPACKER Using the same 5MP JPEG as before, I tried 200% pixel-size enlargement. The PZP stand-alone app. produced a 9.7MB file, while the GFPP plug-in made a 6.4MB image, both set for best quality. Side-by-side Preview magnifications show the GFPP image to be more defined.
(Version 2.3.2) | |
| Feb 28 2008 |
BUMBLEB Damn this is expensive. Alright alright, Genuine Fractals and Alien Skin's BlowUp kost $199 which pretty much equals the 149 EURO they are asking for this one. BUT, I don't care what others charge. Bottomline for me is... The bottomline. I have to enlarge and sell quite a few images to make this app worth its price. This is the same situation as audio plug-ins. Very expensive. More expensive than a lot of full audio editing applications. Okay okay, this app has patented technology whatever. A lot probably goes into research and development - or does it? And apart from that I don't find its results to be THAT much better than straight Bicubic done with a bit of care in other image editing apps. Still, if this app was priced more modestly, I'd maybe purchase it. Of course it is a niche app, which makes the price go up, but I'd bet there are users using pirated/cracked copies of these apps, instead of purchasing. Personally I'd like to add this kind of software to my toolbox, if only I could afford it.
(Version 2.3.2) | |
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 | May 24 2007 |
HOLYPOLY The download includes a Photoshop CS3 (and pre-CS#) compatible plugin.
(Version 2.2.6) | |
| May 24 2007 |
MAC ADAM Nice !! Thanks
(Version 2.2.6) | |
| Jan 30 2007 |
MOK.IN.TOUCH™ Still the best. Just ran some tests on PhotoZoom Pro 2.1.12, Practals 4 & 5, SizeFixer SLR and Photoshop CS2. The results turned out: PhotoZoom Pro has passed everyone. I've been using PhotoZoom for 4 years since they used to call themselves 'Spline'. There were not much improvement until they hit the version 2. I'm printing everything with my wide printer everyday. PhotoZoom is the one I use to enlarge 90% of my work. Great software.
(Version 2.1.12) | |
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