COMPANY: BenVista | URL: www.benvista.com | TYPE: Standalone/Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $219
				Above: Original 4MP image with building number circled. Below: Building number before and after treatment with PhotoZoom Pro.
		PhotoZoom Pro 3 brings you the world's best technologies for enlarging digital images. Its revolutionary S-Spline Max algorithm, which is new and unique in PhotoZoom Pro 3, takes the patented and many times awarded S-Spline technology to the next level. PhotoZoom Pro is able to render perfect photo enlargements of unequalled quality. PhotoZoom Pro 3 is the ideal solution for enlarging digital images, both for printing and on-screen purposes. Besides enlargements of unequalled quality it offers various professional functions and features, and can be easily fit into anyone's workflow. It's an absolute must-have for both professionals and serious amateurs who want to resize their images. Using its powerful yet easy-to-use software interface, you can create sharp, crisp clear image magnifications, without introducing serrated edges, blurriness, or unnatural looking artifacts. This software is perfectly suited for image magnification in DTP, industrial image processing (such as in space technology), medical applications, security, large format printing, digital photography and online publication or for enhancing images from the internet. Features Higher quality. Equipped with S-Spline Max, the latest generation of BenVista's patented S-Spline algorithm, PhotoZoom Pro 3 creates image enlargements of unequalled quality. PhotoZoom Pro 3 beats any of the alternative solutions, such as Photoshop's Bicubic technique, fractal-based methods and so-called "industry standards". Truly any size. Where competitors fail to get past 300000 by 300000 pixels (or even much lower), PhotoZoom Pro 3 enlarges images up to 1 million by 1 million pixels. No other product offers this capability, let alone with preservation of image quality. Fits into your workflow. BenVista does not intend to dictate how you should fit PhotoZoom Pro 3 into your workflow. Therefore, the software works not only as a stand-alone application, but also as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in for Photoshop. Choice. Although S-Spline Max has proven to be the optimum technique in most tests, PhotoZoom Pro 3 also offers two other excellent S-Spline techniques. You can choose which you like best. You can even fine-tune each technique to your personal liking, and save your favorite settings so you can use them again later. Image support. PhotoZoom Pro 3 perfectly meets the requirements of the professional user when it comes to image support. It fully supports color spaces like RGB, CMYK, Grayscale and Lab, just like metadata of the types EXIF, IPTC, XMP and ICC profiles. Also, PhotoZoom Pro 3 supports layers, 16 bits/channel (including Raw) and 32 bits/channel (HDR) images and, last but not least, a very wide range of image file formats. •Patented, award-winning S-Spline technologies, including the brand new S-Spline Max technique •Higher quality image enlargements and higher quality downsizing •Works as a stand-alone application, and as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in for Photoshop •Multi-processor support: huge speed increase! •Batch conversion: resize enormous amounts of images in one go •Extreme enlargements: up to 1 million by 1 million pixels •Predefined settings for different types of images •Advanced fine-tuning tools: create your own presets and save them for later •Film Grain functionality for an increased natural look •Advanced crop tool •Preserves metadata (IPTC, EXIF, XMP, ICC profiles) •Supports RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, Lab color spaces •Supports 16 bits/channel (including Raw) images •Supports 32 bits/channel (HDR) images (through Automation plug-in) •Supports layers (through Automation plug-in) •Supports more image file formats (through Automation plug-in) •Fully compatible with the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Adobe Photoshop •Mac: Universal stand-alone application and plug-ins: maximum performance on both PowerPC and Intel based systems System Requirements Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, or 2000 Pentium-compatible processor 64 MB internal memory 15 MB free hard disk space Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), or 10.4 (Tiger) PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor 128 MB internal memory 20 MB free hard disk space For Adobe Photoshop plug-in functionality, the following requirements apply: On Windows systems: Adobe Photoshop 6 or higher. Also works with Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Corel Photo-PAINT. On Mac systems: Adobe Photoshop CS2 (version 9.0.2 or higher), CS3, or CS4