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Getting Started


Welcome to Blow Up

Blow Up is a Photoshop-compatible automation plug-in that offers the highest quality image enlargement available. Blow Up is great for resizing images for large format printing, for taking web graphics to print, and for creating gallery prints from digital snapshots. We think you will find that Blow Up preserves the crisp lines and smooth colors of your original image. Enlarge without the stairstep, halo, and fringe artifacts of bicubic interpolation.

As an automation plug-in, Blow Up works with only Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Blow Up does, however, support 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images, as well as RGB, CMYK, LAB, Grayscale, and Duotone image modes.

Blow Up can also be recorded and played back in a Photoshop action. This increases efficiency and maintains consistency when resizing a batch of images.

Blow Up will run faster on multiprocessor, multi-core, and hyper-threading computers. The more processors or cores you have, the faster Blow Up will run. A dual processor machine has two, separate CPU chips. A dual core machine crams most of two CPUs onto one chip. And hyper-threading allows your CPU to multi-task more efficiently.

Finding Blow Up

Please note that because Blow Up is an automation plug-in, it is listed separately from our other plug-ins.

To start using Blow Up in Photoshop, select File>Automate>Alien Skin Blow Up.

In Elements, select File>Automation Tools>Alien Skin Blow Up.

Host Requirements

Blow Up is an automation plug-in. That means that you must already have installed one of the following host programs:

System Requirements

Macintosh Systems

  • PowerPC G4 processor
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

Windows Systems

  • Pentium 4 or later processor
  • Windows 2000 or Windows XP

Registering Blow Up

You must register your software to receive technical support and critical product updates. Registration also qualifies you for product discounts and upgrade pricing on future versions of Blow Up.

If you purchased Blow Up directly from Alien Skin Software, you are automatically registered with us. You need to register only if you purchased Blow Up elsewhere.

You can register online at http://www.alienskin.com/register. If you don't have access to the World Wide Web, mail in the registration card included with your software.


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