Perfect Resize

[rpcrowe]

In the interest of achieving decent quality images from the often terrible quality photos submitted by our Maltese Rescue California volunteers, I was thinking that a program like Perfect Resize by OnOne Software might be just the ticket. I also like that this program seems to effortlessly set up canvas wrap borders as well as some other, seemingly neat, capabilities.

I noticed a special on the Standard Edition of Perfect Fractals 7.5 for $50 USD. The main difference between this and the premium version is that this is a stand alone application and it doesn't support RAW.

I wonder if it would support either DNG or PSD documents? How about TIFF?

Then I noticed that for an additional $30 ($80) I could get the Standard Edition of Perfect Photo Suite http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite7/

It might be worth the extra money to get the other six programs. After all that would be only an additional five U.S. Dollars each!

OTOH, I love working with NIK Software as a plug-in for Photoshop CS6 and I could get the Premium edition of the Suite for $180 U.S. Dollars which would give me the plug-in and full capability of the various programs.

Has anyone worked with Perfect Resize (or its predecessor "Genuine Fractals") or with any of the other programs in the Perfect Photo Suite and, if so, how do you like them?

[NorthernFocus]

I've got perfect resize. I'm not sure that the difference in the resizing algorithm is noticeable vs. photoshop resizing but some of the other features are nice if you use them. The canvas borders alone justified the purchase for me. I would routinely spend 15 minutes or so per image to convert them to canvas print format. So bottom line recommendation from me would be to make the decision based on other features than the resizing alone.

[Manfred M]

I would have to agree with Dan. I picked up the OnOne bundle and PerfectResize was part of the package. Frankly I do see not difference in quality versus what the current Photoshop algorithms do. The terrible small images that are submitted to you will simply end up looking like even worse large images.

I hardly ever use it; not as useful as NIK.

[RustBeltRaw]

Bear in mind that as the initial image's pixel count increases, resizing either way will produce cleaner results. Giving the algorithms more pixels to make decisions keeps them happy. Granted, you have no control over that, given that you're editing amateur photos you didn't take (which would drive me insane in about ten minutes), but it's a variable to keep an eye on.

[rpcrowe]

Dan and Manfred... Thanks for your replies.

What got me interested in Perfect Resize was a half price offer for Pixio Photo Maximizer I received as an email. http://www.avanquest.com/Internation...zer-pro-500404

I perused it for a few minutes and then decided to investigate what type established software was available along these lines. I remembered the name Genuine Fractals and found that this was now Perfect Resize and part of the OnOne bundle.

As with Dan, I would also be quite interested in the Canvas Wrap feature of perfect resize.

I really like a few of the bells and whistles of the other six programs in the bundle although most of what they seem to do, can be done in Photoshop.

I may download a free trial of the standard version of the OnOne bundle and play with it for a while. If I like it and using it as a stand-alone program does not cause a lot of heartburn for me, I will buy it. If I really like the bundle but, want it integrated as a plug-in for Photoshop CS6, I will buy the plug-in version.

I love the plug-in features of NIK software and being able to access the various NIK components from within Photoshop. However, I also use portrait professional and don't seem to mind it being a stand-alone program....

[xpatUSA]

Not really on-topic, but this is worth a quick read (mainly the comments):

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/200...-resizing.html

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