Anyone using Genuine Fractals?

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Is anyone here using Genuine Fractals to resize images in photoshop.
I am having horrible stability issues with it (last version before rename) and I can't figure out what.
Computer is just fine. Specs are fine, etc.

Genuine Fractals seems to work at random......
I have done everything the company has suggested including reinstalling Photoshop CS5 and heck I even reinstalled the whole computer - properly.
.net 4.0 per company, Photoshop memory settings as recommended ,etc

Is there a trick to it that I may not know?

Thanks,
Steven
 
Right now, I'm using 5.0 and it is ok but I have heard some real problems with later versions. You might be better off backing down to an older version.
 
That's interesting. Had not heard that, but I am willing to give anything a shot.
Using latest version for 64bit, but could try an older version with 32bit Photoshop and see.
 
Qimage will do a better job of upsampling than Genuine Fractals. Go to the Qimage web site and take "The Qimage Challenge." Only runs on a Windoz machine but they are cheap; we have one dedicated to Qimage.
 
I second what Warren said about Q-Image. I was able to turn 1000x1500 px images in into acceptable 24x36 prints. These were done for a display so the image quality wasn't of issue. The prints turned out so much better than we expected that people wanted to purchase them.
 
Genuine Fractals is now called Perfect REsize by onOne Software. We use it all the time and are fairly pleased with the result. Certainly better than upsizing with Photoshop.
 
Warren Tucker said:
Qimage will do a better job of upsampling than Genuine Fractals. Go to the Qimage web site and take "The Qimage Challenge." Only runs on a Windoz machine but they are cheap; we have one dedicated to Qimage.
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When we purchased our large format printer we tested a bunch of software for photo enlargement including few RIP software. At the end we choose Qimage for printing (mainly for nesting multiple photos but we always prepare photos with Perfect Resize (curently version 7.0). Qimage does good interpolation when enlarging but Perfect Resize is the best we tested so far.

Like Christie said Genuine Fractals is now called Perfect Resize and you should really tested a newest version because they changed the algorithm and results are great.
 
Gotta put my vote out there for Onone's software I purchased the whole suite while it was on sale and I use em all. I especially love the resize software, I turned a scanned slide into a great 30x40 print as with photo shop couldn't do much more than 15x20.
 
Modigity said:
Gotta put my vote out there for Onone's software I purchased the whole suite while it was on sale and I use em all. I especially love the resize software, I turned a scanned slide into a great 30x40 print as with photo shop couldn't do much more than 15x20.
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Also onOne is Mac compatible :-)
 
Finally have exact errors.

Thank you to everyone for the options and I am looking into them as well.

I finally was able to isolate the error from Genuine Fractals log:

Event (4051) on line 368 of ..\common\gf_filter.cpp
Event (-128) on line 368 of ..\common\gf_action.cpp
Event (-128) on line 368 of ..\common\gf_action.cpp

I have emailed the company, but thought I would post this here just to see :)
 
For future information:
A full uninstall and reinstall of C++ Redist. libraries 2010 seemed to resolve the issue. Or at least we can't make it happen again :)
 
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