SmillaEnlarger

I'm happy to inform that the developer keeps updating this beautiful piece of software. Latest version is 0.9.1. It is the best. MacUpdate please update. Just did an update and it's as usual does an amazing job. Download on developer's site, Sourceforge.

Unfortunately it doesn't open anymore in Mojave. If Mischa Lusteck (the developer) could please update the SE, I'd gladly pay for that.

Indispensable. The UI could use some streamlining but the results are phenomenal—could it really be this easy? Now I wish this was adapted for upscaling video.

Definitely works as described and others define values. Have used occasionally and confidently to improve work of others and myself, just a smidgen...

looks good, but no choice of algorithms. If the author could add a list of algorithms and upgrade to a paid version, I'd gladly pay.

2014- Quick and first glance seems really useful tool under OSX10.9 still...

Overall, the program works perfectly. Better yet, the program is free, customisable, and includes batch process. I don't have any professional applications to compare to, coming bicubic sampling. The speed is definitely slower than Bicubic, so it's not instantaneous, nothing to complain about really. I found that the interface does lag a bit when the program is batch processing at the time, and which causes me unable to move my mouse (I can move the mouse but it will cause incorrect settings chosen in the menu for example). I haven't seen any crashes yet.

A long time ago, I got a copy of Shortcut S-Spline on a MacWorld CD or something. It only ran under OS9, but was amazing because I could take the pictures that were taken with my elderly 1.3 megapixel camera, blow up their resolution and then print them out, and they would look amazing on paper. I've been looking for a replacement for that since updating to OSX. My camera is no longer 1.3mp, but I like to have the option of enlarging some images. S-Spline still exists in the form of PhotoZoom, but costs an exorbitant sum of money to buy, money which I just can't justify spending to increase the DPI of an image that I probably won't print anyway. Then someone mentioned SmillaEnlarger and I gave it a go, not expecting much. Lo and behold, it did an admirable job. It's not as perfect as PhotoZoom's algorithm, but for a few quick enlargements its more than adequate.

Great app... simple does what it is supposed to do. Make pictures bigger.

Just tried this for a quick enlargement of a photo from 640 × 458 to 1024 × 733 (minimum dimensions requested from the recipient) ... looks fantastic! Effortless and pretty intuitive, I got the job done in about a minute after downloading. Lots of configurable options in the preview before saving your expanded file. Great!!

This is a wonderful piece of software. Any new updates in the near future?

Excellent software! the algorithm seems to do a much better job than the Sinc (lanczos3) algorithm in GIMP - i just did a comparison. Smilla also takes out jpeg artifacts pretty darn well! The interface could use a little better organization, to make it more obvious, but it is quite usable. And I did find a way to drag-and-drop images from iPhoto - see my reply to one of the previous comments.

This is a fantastic program, for free! The one thing I wish it could do, so far, that it doesn't (unless I missed how to do it) is some sort of integration with iPhoto. The problem is, if one import one's images into iPhoto, (as opposed to just linking to them, an option in the iPhoto prefs) then all your photos are hidden away from the Finder inside the iPhoto library. In other words, you can't navigate to the iPhoto image via ImageEnlarger's source/browse buttons. I tried changing the External Editor in the iPhoto prefs from PhotoShop or Graphic Converter (or whatever one uses) to ImageEnlarger, and although iPhoto does then switch to ImageEnlarger, it doesn't open the image one selected for External Editing in iPhoto. If there's a way to do this that I've missed, I'd sure like to know, otherwise, I wish that this great little program was iPhoto savy. Thanks!

If you have problems with the enlarger, please visit the help-forum on the SourceForge-page of the project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/support ). Maybe a solution can be found there, at least I would be glad to receive detailed posts about the errors you encountered.

Great app. Was looking for something like that.

I'm a photo editor (by profession). This is a fantastic app. I've compared with a few pro apps and this one is even better than some of the pro stuff. Keep it up. The price is 100% great for everyone!

I don't know yet where the bug is ( works on my G4 mac mini ), but you could try to use another output format instead of JPG: go to the bottom line of the window ("Enlarged:") and change the ending of the proposed filename to something other ( possible are .bmp, .png, .tiff ). Maybe one of these works, could be a JPEG-specific problem.

I too am experiencing the same problem mentioned on saving; however, to save the enlarged picture, I press command shift 4 as a work around. This piece of software is what I have been looking for. Kudos to the developer(s).

I wish I could work out how to get this application to work ! I go through all the motions but still end up with my original jpeg in its original size !!! And there is no inbuilt Help.