One feature which is a big plus-point in AKVIS is the before and after viewer, which previews changes to the image before you apply them. For something to hang on your wall, however, the picture AKVIS produces is probably acceptable. Don’t get me wrong – the quality is significantly degraded, and I don’t recommend you try this stunt. In the advanced set-up, there is also the option to use Unsharp Mask, but, to be honest, the last time you’d want to be sharpening your image is when you’ve just upsized it – if you use this control, watch out for jagged edges coming at you from out of the screen.īy using AKVIS’ presets, and then applying little tweaks to the controls here and there, you can get quite a usable picture, even when you upscale by 500%. The express set-up reduces the displayed controls to size/ ppi and edge sharpness/artefact removal, whilst the advanced set-up adds sliders controlling grain, ”simplicity” (how much you want to smooth out pixelation) and edge smoothness. You can have one of two set-ups – express or advanced. Your opened picture is displayed on the left, while the upsizing and adjustment tools are in a column on the right (think Lightroom).
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One of them, PhotoZoom Pro 4, I have already reviewed, but this review is dedicated to a competitor – AKVIS Magnifier.ĪKVIS isn’t hugely pretty, but the layout of the controls within the app is sensible and clear. Photoshop can upsize your image to a limited degree without loss of too much quality, but there are numerous other specialised apps which have tried (and many have failed) to improve on Adobe’s upsizing formula. The most popular is combining landscape scenes with human portraiture where a silhouette darkens an overlay photo or appears isolated on a blank background with an overlay image showing through it.Upsizing, with current technology, is one of the thorniest tasks you can perform on an image. Two images are superimposed into a single photo using different blend modes and taking into account the luminance values.
This mode is based on the real-world technique used by photographers. This mode allows making montages with difficult objects (trees, etc).ĭouble Exposure ( Home Deluxe/Business). The difference between the two is that in Emersion Mode the pasted fragment does not overlay the background, but embeds into the background so that only certain parts of the fragment are visible. In this mode, like in Montage mode, the program combines images to create a seamless photo montage. Use this mode if you want to "dissolve" the pasted image in the background.Įmersion Mode. In this mode the program does not only smoothen the borders of the pasted object and adjusts its color range, but it also makes the object semi-transparent, so that the texture and the relief of the primary image can be seen through. It looks similar to the way a chameleon adapts to the environment.īlend Mode. In this mode the program adjusts the pasted fragment to the target image color range and smoothes the object's borders. This mode is good to use for creating photo collages with people (pasting a person into a new background).Ĭhameleon Mode. The object does not change its color range or opacity, only its edges adapt to the new environment and get smoothed. It transfers selected objects to a new background and makes the irrelevant parts of the pasted fragment fade away. In this mode the program combines images to create a seamless photo montage.
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