To lessen the reduction of image quality when reducing a picture, make sure you increase the resolution (pixels/inch or pixels per centimeter) before reducing the size. I had a 9.6mb 22"x22" photo that I needed to reduce to 2" x 2" for a passport. If I only changed the size to 2 x 2 at 72 pixels per inch, the resulting picture became 81Kb which was not be good enough for the government because of the poor resolution. However, if I set the resolution to 500 pixels/inch before reducing the size to 2x2, the resulting picture was 3.8Mb and the resolution was very good.
Losing quality when resizing
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To lessen the reduction of image quality when reducing a picture, make sure you increase the resolution (pixels/inch or pixels per centimeter) before reducing the size. I had a 9.6mb 22"x22" photo that I needed to reduce to 2" x 2" for a passport. If I only changed the size to 2 x 2 at 72 pixels per inch, the resulting picture became 81Kb which was not be good enough for the government because of the poor resolution. However, if I set the resolution to 500 pixels/inch before reducing the size to 2x2, the resulting picture was 3.8Mb and the resolution was very good.