If you're a photo buff, but you want to print some enlargements or cropped photos, but what looks good in Photoshop looks terrible printed out, you're not alone in your frustration.  In Photoshop, when you enlarge or crop the picture, you're just making the set number of pixels larger.  Hench they get "blurry, muddy colors" and so on.

What's great about PhotoZoom Pro 2 is that it uses special technology and algorithms to actually create *new* pixels that match the old ones fairly well, so that enlargement or crop looks great on screen and especially when printed out.  This is not unlike some software and hardware applications that can take standard definition video and effectively make it high definition via creating new pixels vs. just enlarging it.

It only costs $149 USD, and can be used either as a stand-alone application, or from within Photoshop; availabe for Windows and Mac, I'm not 100% sure it's compatible with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 yet.  Visit benvista.com to do a trial; I know I will, because I still have photos from my old Canon A60 2.1 megapixel point-and-shoot!

Hat tip: Maclife, who says the interface looks a little like OS X 10.3 Panther's Finder.  (Images provided by benvista.com.)

Posted at 07:42AM Nov 09, 2007 by Heath McKnight in Enhance  |  Comments[0]