DIGITAL PHOTO ENLARGEMENT SOFTWARE

[James Graham]

Looking for a good enlarging program to use in conjunction with Photoshop4 or 5.
Recommendations most welcome.
Thanks!

[John Chardine]

Apparently Photoshop's Bicubic smoother does a pretty good job and rivals onOne's Genuine Fractals up to a certain scale of enlargement. I have Genuine Fractals and it does an amazing job.

[DickLudwig]

James, How large of an enlargement?
If you're working on a PC, Qimage is a great program for doing enlargements. I've found it does a wonderful job on prints up to 20 x 30 (might do them in a larger size but that is the limit of my printer). It has an outstanding sharpening routine that takes all the work out of output sharpening.

[Robert Amoruso]

Photoshop's Bicubic smoother is what I am using on 17 x whatever length I need. Have not had to go larger yet.

[James Graham]

Thanks all for your input. My intention is to enlarge a photo, then give it to a commercial printer for poster size printing. I realize that the commercial printer can do the same thing from a high resolution jpg, but think I can create a better result by enlarging beforehand.