Fractals 5

**Donald Miller** · 10-Dec-2007, 05:27

Is anyone here running Fractals 5 in their digital workflow? If so, what is your experience with the program? Thanks for any information that you can share.

**jotloob** · 10-Dec-2007, 06:03

Donald

I am running MAC OSX 10.5.1 and PSCS3 + GF V5 .
To run GF V5 on LEOPARD you must download a compatible version from onONE .

The results I obtain up to now are extremely good .
What you should have , is a lot of RAM and a lot of space on your system HD .
I use a 120GB HD just for the OS and have 3,5GB RAM . Sufficient enough for big images .

What I found is , increase an image in size is not an issue at all , but decrease in size fails sometimes . I could not determine yet , what is the cause for this . Might be , that I have to do some more reading in the doc.

Jürgen

**Donald Miller** · 10-Dec-2007, 06:30

Jurgen, Thanks for sharing your experience. Looks like I may need to upgrade my box. I have 2gb and 160 HD on CS3.

**Kirk Gittings** · 10-Dec-2007, 10:02

I use it regularly for scaling up DSLR files for clients. It is clearly superior to the tools in CS3 with fewer artifacts and superior fine detail.

**Witold Grabiec** · 10-Dec-2007, 10:12

Can anyone fill me in on the difference between Fractals 5 and Fractals Print Pro 5? Thanks.

**Kirk Gittings** · 10-Dec-2007, 10:22

Here is an ad I just received from Calumet. GF5 is obviously superior that they are packaging it and PS together. I think (not sure) Fractals Print Pro 5 is a final stage sharpening program for optimum printing at various sizes on different media.

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