Maintaining resolution when rescaling
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I’ve had a lot of questions like this before. Still don’t totally get it.
So every time I scale down an image, like I have to do to submit to the contest, it gets much blurrier, like the difference between 1080 and 720. Is there any way to prevent this or is this simply the nature of shrinking down an image that now has less pixels to use than the original? I’d like my submission to look as sharp as the original but I’m bad at technology and I don’t know how these things work. I’m using procreate by the way.
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@griffin try this. Go to File. Go down to Export As.
When you get to the next step, you can resize there and select JPEG as how you want to export. Then upload this to Critique Arena. Good Luck!! -
@maryannlucas unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be an option in procreate
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I generally export it full size and then re-size it outside of the app. I use Preview if I'm doing it on my mac or an app called Image Size if I do it on my iPhone or iPad. (It's free if you are willing to accept ads.)
I always work in 300 dpi and use a pretty large canvas, by the way.
Laurie DeMott
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@demotlj my canvas is 15x11 which I feel like is pretty big. I just tried that app but it still reduces the quality quite a bit. I know that’s something that just happens with compression sometimes but do you experience a quality drop when resizing?
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@demotlj could the issue be that my canvas was actually too big and caused compression to decrease the quality more?
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@griffin I don't know whether a smaller canvas would help. I just tried four ways of re-sizing -- doing it in Procreate itself, resizing the original with the Image Size app, resizing it with Preview in Mac, and resizing it with Clip Art Studio. All of them look fine on my iPad at full screen but when I zoom way in, I can see a little loss of resolution on all of them. I've always wondered if my art looks terrible to the SVS teachers who are viewing it on their big monitors but I suspect that they take that into consideration (at least, if the only problem is resolution. There are a lot of other reasons for my art to look terrible!)
I've never had an issue with resolution when exporting my art from Procreate to be printed on calendars, photo books, or stationary but in those cases, you usually use full size files and it is scaled down on their end. I don't know about book editors. I know there are people on the forum who have done their entire work in Procreate so they would be better equipped to address that.
Laurie DeMott
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@demotlj maybe it’s just my perfectionism getting to me then. To me the difference between the original and the scaled down version is super obvious but maybe that’s just because I’ve spent hours staring at the original. Can you see the difference between these two?
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@griffin It looks ok until I zoom in, and them I can see a little difference. It looks like the same difference I see on mine when I zoom in. I only have a laptop so I don't know if people with a big monitor would see it without zooming in.
If anyone else on the forum knows how to prevent this, I'd love to hear it. I've also had problems with some loss of resolution in Procreate anytime I select and re-size within the program itself. If, for example, I move an arm or something, the ink line will not look quite as crisp as the rest of the linework.
Laurie DeMott
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@demotlj I know that with resizing selections there will always be a loss in quality because it is essentially taking it apart and putting it back together again so the more you do it the blurrier it will get. I’m not sure if it works exactly the same for resizing whole images though.
