Getting the Big Picture From Phone Photos

The not-so-great thing is that when you get a spectacular shot, with most phone cameras, the image is small or of such low quality that you can’t enlarge it into a frame-worthy print.
Luckily, software can solve that problem — programs like BlowUp2 from Alien Skin, and Genuine Fractals from onOne Software, which both use digital wizardry to turn tiny, low-resolution photographs into large, poster-worthy images.
Both of these programs are “plug-ins,” which work as a part of Adobe Photoshop. Both are fairly easy to use. You open a picture in Photoshop, enter the size you want it to be on a control panel and it renders the enlargement.
In a far from scientific test, BlowUp2, which is priced at $250, seemed to do better with small details on really big enlargements, but also took longer to render. I find myself using Genuine Fractals, which is priced at $160, most often. I think that is because the control panel was easier for me to learn and use.
Both products are a bit pricey if you don’t plan on using them often, but there is another option. OnOne makes a $70 suite of plug-ins for Photoshop Elements, the simpler, consumer version of Photoshop. The suite includes an enlarging program, although it limits size. If the 299 dot-per-inch limit isn’t enough for you, there is a work-around; you can process the enlarged image a second time, which may reduce quality marginally, but you’ll get the size you want.

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