Genuine Fractals 4 User Guide

G ENUINE F RACTALS 4.0 User Guide Genuine Fractals User Guide Table of Contents 1. Getting Started 3 1-1. System Requirements 3 1-2. Installing Genuine Fractals 3 1-3. Genuine Fractals About Box 4 1-4. Frequently Asked Questions 4 1-5. Support 5 2. Quick Start 6 2-1 Launching Genuine Fractals 6 2-2 Opening an Existing STN File 6 3. Using Genuine Fractals 7 3-1. Genuine Fractals Work Area 7 3-2. Launching Genuine Fractals 7 3-3. Opening STN Files 9 3-4. Zooming and Panning 10 3-5. Cropping an Image 12 3-6. Scaling an Image 13 3-7. Saving Images 15 4. Appendix 16 4-1. Glossary 16 4-2. Contacting onOne Software 18 4-3. Copyrights, Trademarks and Credits 18 2 Copyright © 2005 onOne Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Genuine Fractals User Guide 1. GETTING STARTED Welcome to Genuine Fractals™ 4.0! We at onOne Software are very proud to be the makers of the extremely popular Genuine Fractals product, and we’re especially excited to offer this new version. Genuine Fractals 4.0 represents a significant leap forward in utility and ease of use because of major changes we’ve made to the product. Users new to Genuine Fractals will discover an easy, intuitive way to scale up their digital photographs, while “old hands” will find that the application they’ve relied on for years has reemerged with all their favorite Genuine Fractals features and the same powerful scaling capabilities but with a much simpler and more streamlined workflow. ® ® Genuine Fractals 4.0 is fully integrated into Adobe Photoshop as an automation plug-in that now separates file saving and scaling operations, so that you can use Genuine Fractals to scale any file type, not just STN (“Sting”) files. Previously, in order to scale up your images, it was necessary to first save them as STN files, then close them and reopen them again. While Genuine Fractals 4.0 still allows you to create and save STN files, you can now skip that process and do all your image sca…