How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelated?
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How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelated?
As the title says, i want to know how to resize an image without looking blurry or pixelated, is there any program? i already used photoshop, paint.net, gimp, and also a program called SmillaEnlarger
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Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
There's no detail "between" the pixels, so any upscaling is going to introduce artifacts. If you're okay with how they look, algorithms such as Scalex, xBRZ, and HQx can give a smoothed or semi-painterly look to the upscaling. GZDoom incorporates these natively in the High-Quality resize option, so you can play with that to see how they look.
Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
In this case i need to reduce the size of the image...it is the same thing?Caligari87 wrote:There's no detail "between" the pixels, so any upscaling is going to introduce artifacts. If you're okay with how they look, algorithms such as Scalex, xBRZ, and HQx can give a smoothed or semi-painterly look to the upscaling. GZDoom incorporates these natively in the High-Quality resize option, so you can play with that to see how they look.
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Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
Well that depends. You can't shrink the image pixel size without losing data (and hence, quality).
If you want something high-res to render at a smaller scale, you can using GZDoom's features (like the Scale property in TEXTURES or DECORATE).
If you want something high-res to render at a smaller scale, you can using GZDoom's features (like the Scale property in TEXTURES or DECORATE).
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Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
What kind of picture is it? Some filters should be better than others at prioritizing certain details over others, while if this is a smaller piece of pixel art it might be faster to manually edit and smooth out a pixelated resize than to find the exact algorithm that gets you what you need.
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Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
You can do that with only with textures?Caligari87 wrote:Well that depends. You can't shrink the image pixel size without losing data (and hence, quality).
If you want something high-res to render at a smaller scale, you can using GZDoom's features (like the Scale property in TEXTURES or DECORATE).
Re: How to resize a image without looking blurry or pixelate
as long as you maintain the aspect ratio of the image and dont decide to reduce 50% of the original resolution you shouldn't have any kind of problem with gimp\photoshop