RealZoom 1.5.1 review

RealZoom generates a somewhat realistic zoomed (close-up) image as if you are taking a close look at your LCD, CRT screen, or paper with a magnifying glass.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 490K Developer: Hidetomo Katsura Buy Now Price: $15.00 Updated: 08 Sep 2006

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RealZoom generates a somewhat realistic zoomed (close-up) image as if you are taking a close look at your LCD, CRT screen, or paper with a magnifying glass.

Available zoom types: RGB stripes, RGB dots, LCD, Trinitron (Aperture Grille), Shadow Mask, Video (interlace), Black Print (K=0 and 45 degrees), and Color Print (CMYK=0 and 63.4 degrees). I hope this is a useful image utility for graphic designers, graphic artists, and for anyone to help understand how images are reproduced on LCD, CRT, and paper.

RealZoom generates a TIFF bitmap image file while RealZoom Quartz generates a vector-based PDF image file.

NOTE: RealZoom generates a very large image when the magnification is high (e.g. 6x, 9x, 12x, etc.), and the system may not be able to handle a very large image properly.

Please make sure to select a portion of (or scale down) your large image and save a smaller image with your image editing application such as Photoshop, then load the small image with RealZoom.

Here are some key features of "RealZoom":
Zoom types: RGB stripes, RGB dots, LCD, Trinitron (Aperture Grille), Shadow Mask, Video (interlace), Black Print (K=0 and 45 degrees), and Color Print (CMYK=0 and 63.4 degrees).
Load image files in .tiff, .pdf, .pict, .gif, .jpg, .png, and .icns.
Save zoomed images as TIFF bitmap image files.

Limitations:
Watermark on resulting image.

What's New:
Minor bug fixes.

Requirements:
At least 512 MB of RAM.