Photo Editing Software

[CasiLindberg]

What is a software, preferably free, that can edit photos with more options than iPhoto.

The main thing I want is to sharpen photos, increasing the number of pixels in the photo

 

[Tallest Skil]

The main thing I want is to sharpen photos, increasing the number of pixels in the photo

That's... not what sharpening does. You can't really increase the quality (megapixelage) of a photo.

 

[jonbravo77]

All sharpening will do is define the pixels more. To much and you will distort the image horribly. I don't think there is any way to add pixels to a photo unless you up the resolution in the camera before you take the photo. As far as another software, not sure what is good that's free...

 

[rainydays]

You can't really increase the quality (megapixelage) of a photo.

Actually, you can do that to some extent using interpolation. But it's correct that it has nothing to do with sharpening really, but it will increase the quality when you enlarge an image.

 

[sickmacdoc]

Actually, you can do that to some extent using interpolation. But it's correct that it has nothing to do with sharpening really, but it will increase the quality when you enlarge an image.

Yep, and that is the idea behind Photoshop and other similar software packages when increasing "size". Alien Skin's Blow Up software package claims to do it via a temporary "vectorization" of parts of the image- at any rate it approaches the idea from a different perspective anyway. You can see the difference in their take on it in the examples at the link above. The differences are notable, but one would really have to need the difference in professional uses it would seem as it is also a $249 package!

 

[Cromulent]

Have you tried GIMP?