Resizing Pictures Smaller Ruins It?


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I had a pic 1080X w/e.

Resized it to 320X w/e.

And bam it got worse quality :p I thought this only happened when you made pics bigger.

Well anyway... imma cry now unless theres a prog or something. Otherwise im gonig to have to dl uber high quality pics that take up like 10megs :p and resize those.
 
I had a pic 1080X w/e.

Resized it to 320X w/e.

And bam it got worse quality :p I thought this only happened when you made pics bigger.

Well anyway... imma cry now unless theres a prog or something. Otherwise im gonig to have to dl uber high quality pics that take up like 10megs :p and resize those.
Physically smaller doesn't lose quality, but you aren't only making it physically smaller, you are reducing the number of pixels, so yes, it is getting worse quality when its smaller.
 
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I recommend a tool such as irfanview

Obtainable here: http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

You can resize the images with original aspect ratio on so the pics will come out pretty good or even make it half the size of the original or half of that and vice versa. It's good and quick program if you want to just sit down for a few seconds and resize, adjust the picture, convert it and other stuff.
 
I recommend a tool such as irfanview

Obtainable here: http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

You can resize the images with original aspect ratio on so the pics will come out pretty good or even make it half the size of the original or half of that and vice versa. It's good and quick program if you want to just sit down for a few seconds and resize, adjust the picture, convert it and other stuff.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

This prog rox :p my image is the same quality as b4 woot!
 
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No problem, glad that it's helped :D. I discovered it when a friend told me about it and what it does. I love the fact that it remembers which folder you've last viewed and saved to aswell as the format which it's been saved.
 
I find for simply resizing the excellent freeware PIXresizer is hard to beat. it has a handy batch function too so you can sit back and let it convert an entire directory for you.
 
No problem, glad that it's helped :D. I discovered it when a friend told me about it and what it does. I love the fact that it remembers which folder you've last viewed and saved to aswell as the format which it's been saved.

Yeah its sweet making myself skins for my gp2x when it gets here :D They look secksi haha.

Btw nice avatar u got there :p What's it from?

Too bad my bandwidth is screwed up.. Time to switch from Imagecave to PhotoBucket.
 
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If you resize it in a good image program, like Photoshop, Fireworks, or GIMP, then no quality loss, but using something like MSPaint (Hasn't changed since windows 98 version), then ya.
 
EEEEEEEW. MSPhoto viewer is crappier then paint!!! Never use that for anything, except for rotating images.
 
Well kind of. If you scale it down too much and scale it back up again, it'll look like its been Jpeg artifact-ed down the hell. I use Paintshop Pro and the scale tool is pretty good. There is also a resize tool too...works like a charm.

EDIT: let me see the picture. What do you want to new size to be?
 
Well kind of. If you scale it down too much and scale it back up again, it'll look like its been Jpeg artifact-ed down the hell. I use Paintshop Pro and the scale tool is pretty good. There is also a resize tool too...works like a charm.

EDIT: let me see the picture. What do you want to new size to be?

Its done u can see it it my thread i made on which skin i can use in general gp2x ;p
 
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