Alien Skin Software, makers of photoshop plugins, have released Blow Up, for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. This their latest offering gives the highest quality image enlargement available basically simplifying and improving image enlargement, making it easy to convert web graphics to print and create large format and gallery prints from digital photographs.Blow Up scales image up to 10000% - 10 times in each dimension - with no stairstep, halo, or fringe artifacts. The plugin supports CMYK, RGB, Lab, Grayscale, and Duotone image modes and can resize multi-layered documents without the need to flatten first. It also works with 8-, 16- and 32-bit compositions, including RAW and HDR images. Blow-Up can resize an image in a new document, leaving the original untouched.
The Blow Up plugin is available for $199. Registered users of other Alien Skin products receive discount pricing when ordering direct. Online ordering can be made at http://www.alienskin.com.
1. This looks very promising, as image scaling can he a big problem in some applications.
Posted at 3:00PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Andrew B