DeadOnArrival Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I tried to search in regards to this query but couldn't find anything on this specifically. I have noticed when working with Paint.NET that when you try to resize a large selection down you incur a noticable loss of quality, the larger the disparity of the original and new size the more noticable the loss in quality - this only appears to happen when you downsize a selection, and not when you use the Image -> Resize option from the menu bar. The workaround I've been using is to first use the menu bar resize to slightly bigger than I need the selection and then making precise adjustments directly. I can sort of understand why this would happen, as the on-the-fly processing of a selection resize must be using a low quality setting for speed purposes - but isn't it possible to program selection resize in such a way that you can get the selection to the size you want in this on-the-fly manner and then when you finish resizing have the program re-calculate the new size for best quality? This problem caused me no end of hassle when I first started using Paint.NET, mostly because I was becoming aware of high quality images that had taken significant losses in quality and was stumped to what was causing it until I figured it out - maybe Paint.NET, if incapable of doing the above, should present a warning to the user when resizing a very large selection down to a much smaller size that this will result in a loss of quality and that the menu resize should be utilised first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 (edited) DeadOnArrival, Try this: Duplicate your layer. Resize the top layer by resizing selection. With the selection still active, make a note of the selection dimensions shown down in the status bar. Delete the top layer and use Image > Resize with those dimensions. Edited April 30, 2010 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadOnArrival Posted April 30, 2010 Author Share Posted April 30, 2010 (edited) Thanks Sarkut, but I'm not actually stuck. As I mentioned above I've already found a workaround for this problem that works for me, I probably should have been more specific in that I was wondering if this is a feature or a known bug which will eventually be addressed. Coming from other image editors, it's par for the course that if you upsize something you'll lose a lot of quality, but it's not really a given that you could lose quality from downsizing... Edited April 30, 2010 by DeadOnArrival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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