Re: filmscanners: Genuine Fractals

["Bud" <bud@alltrader.com>]

Contact GF at techsupport@altamira-group.com
Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Landrum" <dflandrum@earthlink.net>
To: "Scanner List" <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: filmscanners: Genuine Fractals


> I bought a Nikon Coolscan IV about 10 days ago that has a full version of
> Genuine Fractals bundled in.  There was no documentation for Genuine
> Fractals.  Altamira's web site is useless.  I have loaded Fractals as a
> plugin to Photoshop 6.0.1.
>
> When I tried to use Genuine Fractal, I saved a TIFF file produced by
Vuescan
> to GF's STN file in Photoshop.  When I retrieved the file and tried to
scale
> it, I saw a thumbnail of the photo that had a heavy pattern embedded.
When
> I opened the scaled image, the photo had the pattern overlay (I am
guessing
> here) that all but obliterated the image.  Does anyone know what I am
doing
> wrong?  Is this a license disabling device?  GF came with no instructions
> and no serial number.  I did not even see a serial number insertion on the
> installation.  Any reference to documentation would also be helpful.
>
> Thanks, Doug Landrum, Digital Dunce.
>
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