Resizing in Lightroom vs. Genuine Fractals

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Are there many Lightroom users also using Genuine Fractals? I think there may be an advantage when cropping out wildlife and uprezing to use Genuine Fractals. I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this?
 
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Anybody out there?????

I was interested to see how some of the LR users feel about cropping and enlarging via LR vs some third party software. Any comments???
 
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Genuine Fractals certainly has its place for big enlargements, although in comparison with Photoshop, LR's algorithm for upsizing is as good as, or better than, Photoshop's own. So for most thing, LR or PS suit me just fine.
 
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Bit more info here:

Lightroom Interpolation

When Lightroom resizes for export (or, for that matter, for a print or web gallery) you don't get a choice of interpolation methods as you do with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, where your choice is based on whether you are sampling up or down. What is Lightroom doing...and is it good? I asked Lightroom's "father," Mark Hamburg, and this is what he said:
"Lightroom is using a Lanczos kernel interpolation method. But the really big difference is it resamples in linear space. Depending on the image, this can create a huge difference. For example, with a Photoshop resampling, if you look closely, you can see a darkening around edges, because Photoshop doesn't generally work in linear.
Which results one likes for resampling are in part a matter of taste and also depend on the image content. In general, Lightroom should be at least as good as Photoshop and in some cases—such as upsampling—it should be clearly better."
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All I use LR for is the develop module for processing my raws, so I didn't even know LR could up-rez an image. Where is this function located? Sorry to be so dumb, but I just never had any occasion to use this. I've been using PS Elements for what little I've done.
 
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egd5 said:
All I use LR for is the develop module for processing my raws, so I didn't even know LR could up-rez an image. Where is this function located? Sorry to be so dumb, but I just never had any occasion to use this. I've been using PS Elements for what little I've done.
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In export menu select the size, in pixels, you want the file to be and it will scale up or down. I have no complaints about either way.
 
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Great, thanks. Have you noticed any size restrictions? I mean, is it best not to go over say, a certain %.
 
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My experience has been that with a good image, I can generally go up to 2''% without a noticeable loss in quality. Above that, I do start to notice more of a difference. YMMV.
 
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OK, I'll give it a try. Boy, LR is amazing. I can't wait til ver 2,3,etc.
 
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egd5;76'1 said:
OK, I'll give it a try. Boy, LR is amazing. I can't wait til ver 2,3,etc.
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It would be best to have a play, I have done around 2''% as well. Depending on what the printer is it may work to leave it to the printer. Here I am talking about 4 metre prints that I have had done on a Roland.
Of course you have a Canon and that will make a difference too;););):cheesy::cheesy:
 
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