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Home > Why Genuine Fractals > Target Audience and Uses Target Audience and Uses The target audience for Genuine Fractals 6 is primarily the professional and enthusiast digital photographer who has a need to print large files and is looking for the highest quality method to enlarge their files. While photographers make up the largest user segment, as mentioned above they are not the only users who benefit from the superior scaling algorithm as magazine publishers, graphic designers and stock photo agencies also require the highest quality enlargements for their professional quality work.There are many different use cases when Genuine Fractals is needed to enlarge an image. Below is a list of the most common use cases. Large Format Printing The most obvious reason why someone would use Genuine Fractals 6 is to enlarge a photo they have taken with either a digital camera or a picture that has been digitally captured such as a digital scan of analog film media (slides, negatives, etc). Well known and respected photographers including Vincent Versace, Andy Katz and Stephen Johnson are just a few of the hundreds of professional photographers who use Genuine Fractals to achieve the highest results with their large format printing. In fact, every picture – over 3 terabytes worth of images – that Vincent Versace has ever shot digitally have been scaled with Genuine Fractals! Genuine Fractals is about more than just resizing your images to make great wall portraits or poster sized prints; In Genuine Fractals 6 we have added two new features, Gallery Wrap and Tiling that help you get your image on the print medium in the size you desire. The Gallery Wrap feature adds extended margins so you can can print on canvas and wrap a portion of the image around the stretcher bars without having to sacrifice your composition. The tiling feature can create mosaic tiles from a huge, mural size image so you can print them on smaller sheets of paper. Cropping and Enlarging Another common use of Genuine Fractals is to crop a subject out of a photo and then enlarge it. Users may not have a long enough lens to fill the frame with their intended subject and as a result, the primary subject of the picture is lost in the background. Wildlife photography and sports photography are just two examples of when this can occur. Another common situation is that many paper sizes have differenct proportions than the image that camera captured. If you have ever tried to make a borderless 8x10 print you know that you have to crop your image to the correct aspect ratio. It can be confusing to know if you should crop and then resize or vice versa, and how to do guarantee you get the finished size that you wanted. With Genuine Fractals 6, users can crop their image to get the proper composition of their subject and then use Genuine Fractals to get to the desired file size and resolution at the same time. The built-in document size presets make this a fast, simple process. Increasing resolution for print quality Magazines and publishers often receive files from users that lack the size and or resolution they require to go to print. User submitted files might include photo contests, before and after contests or even assignments. Many of the top magazine publishers all over the world rely on Genuine Fractals to increase the resolution of these types of files in order to meet their high level of quality expectations. Now with the rapid increase in camera phones and video cameras often providing the first images from news events are from bystanders. These images are often small and of low quality. With Genuine Fractals news editors can use these images and still produce printable results. And now with HD video cameras you can even create great looking prints from any frame. Submitting files to stock photo agencies Most stock photo agencies require the files that are submitted for inclusion in their stock library be at least 50 MB in size. In order for most professional photographers to get their pictures to meet this 50 MB requirement, they have to enlarge their images . Genuine Fractals is the choice of some of the largest and well-known stock photo agencies for increasing the size of images to meet the 50 MB requirement because the Genuine Fractals algorithm maintains the overall detail and sharpness of the original. Graphic Designers Whether taking a low to medium resolution file and incorporating it into a large format project or taking a completed work and making it bigger for a large format display such as a large mural or trade show display, graphic designers have long appreciated the benefits that Genuine Fractals has provided. With Genuine Fractals 6, designers can now use the tiling feature to create life-size comps of artwork before they send it print saving money on high-priced proofs. See also |