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Alien Skin Blow Up 3 Announced

October 26, 2011 By Eric Reagan 3 Comments

Alien Skin Blow Up 3

Alien Skin has unveiled Blow Up 3, an image enlarging tool. (You can see my review of Blow Up 2 here.)  Blow Up 3 includes a simper interface and Lightroom integration.

Alien Skin describes the difference in the above images as follows: [Read more…]

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Alien Skin Blow Up 2 Review

February 4, 2010 By Eric Reagan 3 Comments

Alien Skin Blow Up 2

Alien Skin’s Blow Up 2 is a Photoshop plugin designed to help you create images that are larger than the native resolutions coming out of your camera.  Alien Skin provided me with a review sample of Blow Up 2 and mentioned words like “presets”, “single-click” and “take the complexity out.”  I took them up on their claims and gave it a spin.

While I don’t enlarge many prints beyond 8×10, I have, on occasion, used Photoshop’s bicubic image sample method to enlarge prints up to 20″ x 30″.  I have always thought that this capability in Photoshop works pretty well.  That was, however, until I saw the results from resizing using the Blow Up 2 plugin. [Read more…]

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