Does Genuine Fractals really perform as promised?
We think it comes pretty close, and here are some test results to support our findings: So as not to let the quality of the scanner be a factor in our comparisons, we chose to use a “vector” image file (from a royalty-free collection of clip art images by Aridi). Vector images are drawn on a path like type fonts, and can be scaled to any size and rasterized (turned into a bit mapped image, i.e. a TIFF) without any loss of quality whatsoever. We chose the following EPS image, and rastered it in Photoshop to a size of 700 pixels by 700 pixels (shown here at 1/2 size). We then cropped the image down to this 255 pixels x 77 pixels section: We then encoded the image file (more on this later) using Genuine Fractals (as a plug-in within Photoshop), producing a GF’s “.stn” file. This encoded file, which even in its “lossless” version (no image quality loss due to encoding compression) is about 1/2 to 1/3 the size of the original Photoshop TIFF or Photoshop “.psd” version (the image must be fla
