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For Win/OSX/Linux. Price: Free
Last night in the wee small hours I was looking through some “gonna get to it links”, and came across SmillaEnlarger. As the name suggests, it is an image enlargement tool.
I have been looking for a good tool to do this, as many of my images are from my older digital camera which had a lower resolution, so I am unable to get some larger prints because of this. As a result, I have been begging photography buddy Nigel Honey to run them through Genuine Fractals for me.
What makes SmillaEnlarger & Genuine Fractals different from using your favourite photo editing program and choosing resize is that they use special algorithms to enlarge the image while retaining sharpness & detail.
But what piqued my curiosity was Smilla’s price: Free
The sample image above is my Fungal Infection image. The original is 2549 pixels along the long edge. For comparison, I have used Genuine Fractals & Smilla to enlarge these images to 7200 pixels on the long edge – a 293% enlargement. Smilla’s processing settings were set to full sharpening. The resulting images are a 1:1 crop.