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Frequently asked questions:

1) How much memory do I need to use your program?

We generally recommend at least 128MB RAM, more if you need to scale large input files by large scaling factors.

2) Enlarger PRO can take quite a while to enlarge my photos, can you speed it up?

It takes a while, because your PC is doing extremely complicated calculations, and millions of them. We do use multi-threaded programming to fully take advantage of dual processor/hyper threaded machines.

3) What is the extent of the enlargement I can do?

Enlarger PRO has a maximum setting of16x enlargement, however it is possible to run the output picture through the software a multiple times allowing huge enlargement factors.

4) What image types do you support?

We currently support BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, EXIF, EMF and WMF files. Gray-scale and 24-bit RGB color are supported. Unfortunately due to a legal requirement we currently cannot create GIF files, instead we create PNG files, similar, but more modern. If this doesn't fit your requirements, let us know and we'll try to incorporate your requests in a future release.

5) What causes pixelation?

Pixelation is caused by a digital image being too small to be printed smoothly. Printers print out each pixel as a small blocks of color, the smaller the blocks, the less our eyes notice them. A lot of magazines print out at resolutions of around 300 DPI, meaning that a 300 pixel by 300 pixel image would be printed out as a 1 inch square. This is generally a good resolution for quality. If the same picture was printed at 2" by 2", your printer would simply use larger blocks of colour. When these blocks become noticeable to the eye, the output image is pixelated. Of course, if you enlarged the image using Enlarger PRO before sending it to the printer, it would still look like the original.