Re: [Gimp-user] gimp users matter

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Ofnuts wrote:

> > If you reall care about the output quality, you _never_ just resize. You
> > resize and sharpen, and amount of sharpening is decided on
> > picture-by-picture basis.
>
> Yes. And sometimes you even blur the picture slightly before resizing to
> avoid artifacts caused by spatial frequency folding.

Precisely :)

> > This is something I would expect the "Save for Web" plugin to do, not the
> > stock exporter.
>
> "Web" is a bit restrictive: games, wallpapers, pictures in documents...

Restrictive? To me it's just a fancy and easy to understand name for a
function that everyone who's in this business knows from Photoshop
anyway. I can't immediately think of a different name to explain in
few plain words that resizing, optimization, and enhancement for final
output is about to happen.

Alexandre