Hi Chad,

On Nov 28, 2007 10:04 AM, ChadDavis wrote:

I'm down scaling some tif images. These images are created with a graphics software for making diagrams and the like. Geometric shapes and text mostly. When I open the tif in Gimp they are perfectly crisp. When I scale the image down in size, it becomes slightly blurry, even when opting for the "best" cubic algorithm.

Is this to be expected?

Yes, Gimp deals with pixels, not vectors. when you scale down, you reduce the number of pixels that are used to represent the image.

If your graphics are vector based and you want to keep them that way, use a vector drawing program like Inkscape to manipulate them, not a raster manipulation program like GIMP.

What's the best practice for preparing graphics so that they are crisp? I thought i should make them large and that way they would have extra resolution. But apparently scaling down is a lossy practice?

Extra precision just means a more accurate averaging. Say you are scaling the image down to 50% of original size.. that means that each resultant pixel is calculated from the average of a 2x2 square of pixels. say that 2 of these input pixels are black, and two are white, since it is an average, each of the following produce the same result:

BW BW

WB
BW

WB
WB

WW
BB

So, it is indeed lossy.

If you want a raster image to be maximally crisp, your best bet is to draw it at the final size. If you want a vector image to be crisp, your work is probably unrelated to the GIMP.

I'm down scaling some tif images. These images are created with a graphics
software for making diagrams and the like. Geometric shapes and text mostly. When I open the tif in Gimp they are perfectly crisp. When I scale
the image down in size, it becomes slightly blurry, even when opting for the
"best" cubic algorithm.

Is this to be expected? What's the best practice for preparing graphics so
that they are crisp? I thought i should make them large and that way they
would have extra resolution. But apparently scaling down is a lossy practice?

Thanks,
Chad

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I'm down scaling some tif images. These images are created with a graphics
software for making diagrams and the like. Geometric shapes and text mostly. When I open the tif in Gimp they are perfectly crisp. When I scale
the image down in size, it becomes slightly blurry, even when opting for the
"best" cubic algorithm.

I'm running into the same problem with both scale and rotate. What's really strange is that I was working on a drawing using GIMP 2.8 until very recently. When I was using 2.8 the amount of crispness that I lost when using the scale and rotate functions was within acceptable limits, for example I could rotate a particular line 4, 5 or maybe 6 times before the amount of blur became really noticeable. Yesterday I upgraded to GIMP 2.10 and the problem is MUCH more pronounced - even one rotation or just scaling down a small amount, say 10%, causes everything to become really, really fuzzy. I've attached an image to illustrate.

Did you ever find a solution?

I'm running into the same problem with both scale and rotate. What's really strange is that I was working on a drawing using GIMP 2.8 until very recently. When I was using 2.8 the amount of crispness that I lost when using the scale and rotate functions was within acceptable limits, for example I could rotate a particular line 4, 5 or maybe 6 times before the amount of blur became really noticeable. Yesterday I upgraded to GIMP 2.10 and the problem is MUCH more pronounced - even one rotation or just scaling down a small amount, say 10%, causes everything to become really, really fuzzy. I've attached an image to illustrate.

Did you ever find a solution?

p.s. I tried fixing the problem by increasing the size and resolution of the entire image and that was an even bigger disaster. Now the entire image is super. fuzzy (see attached image). What am I doing wrong and why does 2.10 seem to be behaving so much differently than 2.8??

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