Luminous Landscape Reviews pxl SmartScale
Luminous Landscape have reviewed a new software product from Extensis called pxl SmartScale, which allows you to enlarge the sizes of your digital images with no discernible loss in quality. Or at least that’s what Extensis claim anyway - find out if they’re right in Luminous Landscape’s latest review.
“SmartScale is designed to allow image files to be scaled upwards. Why would one want to do this? Three reasons, usually. The first is because the original file is small or low resolution. Images taken with the 1 to 3 Megapixel cameras of the late ‘90s needed to be “ressed-up” to make anything more than wallet sized prints. Today’s 4-6 MP digicams though produce images large enough for most purposes, so that the need to res-up is reduced from what it once was. The second reason is if a small segment of an otherwise normal sized file needs to be extracted and enlarged. The third reason is to take a typical file and enlarge it so that a very large print, such as a poster or billboard can be made.”