This folder is located in the folder where you have installed Adobe Photoshop. Prior to installing the Automation and Export plug-ins, browse to Photoshop's "Plug-Ins" folder. PhotoZoom Pro 6 should now be accessible in Photoshop via "File" > "Automate" and "File" > "Export". Finish the installation process, and (re)start Photoshop. During the installation process, make sure the checkboxes "Install Automation plug-in" and "Install Export plug-in" are checked. To install PhotoZoom Pro 6 as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in, run the PhotoZoom Pro 6 Setup file (either downloaded or from CD). PhotoZoom Pro 7 will now be listed in Photoshop under "File" > "Automate" and "File" > "Export". When you have reached the "Installation Type" section of the installation process, verify that the correct options to install the plug-ins are selected, and finish the installation. To install PhotoZoom Pro 7 as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in, run the file "PhotoZoom Pro 7 Installer". PhotoZoom Pro 7 should now be accessible in Photoshop via "File" > "Automate" and "File" > "Export". During the installation process, make sure the checkbox "Install plug-ins" is checked. To install PhotoZoom Pro 7 as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in, run the PhotoZoom Pro 7 Setup file (either downloaded or from CD). If Photoshop was running during the installation, you will need to restart it to make sure it recognizes the plug-ins.
PhotoZoom Pro 8 will now be listed in Photoshop under "File" > "Automate" and "File" > "Export". To install PhotoZoom Pro 8 as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in, run the file "PhotoZoom Pro 8 Installer". PhotoZoom Pro 8 should now be accessible in Photoshop via "File" > "Automate" and "File" > "Export". It’s a little pricey, but if your work requires you to regularly enlarge bitmap artwork to huge sizes, PhotoZoom Pro 4 is the best way to do it.To install PhotoZoom Pro 8 as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in, run the PhotoZoom Pro 8 Setup file (either downloaded or from CD). The integration with Photoshop is particularly tight, with the ability to resize complex layered images as well as HDR images with up to 32 bits per channel.Īll in all, it’s an excellent tool. This means that PhotoZoom Pro 4 can work wonders with the low resolution and highly compressed images you typically find on the web.Īnd as a bonus, the program also works as a plug-in for all versions of Photoshop as well as Photoshop-compatible editors such as Paint Shop Pro, and the latest release now also supports 64-bit environments. PhotoZoom Pro 4 adds an important new option in the form of Artifact Reduction, which helps remove the blocky artifacts associated with JPEG compression. Here, you can manage parameters such as sharpness, artificial detail, and edge quality and photo grain. Once you’ve selected your resizing method, you can choose from a range of presets for dealing with different types of image or you can open up a panel to take custom control. Crucially, the results are clearly superior to what you can achieve in Photoshop. With huge magnifications the results can end up looking slightly plasticky, but generally you can produce output that remains sharp while managing to avoid pixellation, blurriness and artifacts. To keep the quality high, PhotoZoom Pro offers all the most popular resizing methods (bilinear, bicubic and so on), but the main appeal comes from its proprietary algorithms: S-Spline, S-Spline XL and a new enhanced version of its most powerful option, S-Spline Max. This allows you to resize your image up to a massive one million by one million pixels, either by entering dimensions, by choosing from an extended range of common screen and print presets, or by interactively dragging on sliders. Load your original image and it appears in a large preview screen with a control panel running down the left. PhotoZoom Pro is a dedicated standalone application with just one aim: to resize your images while maintaining maximum quality. This isn’t a problem if you’re producing regular photo prints from a modern digital camera, but many users need to create larger output and are often dealing with low-resolution originals. Ultimately, the quality of your photos depends on their resolution.