Re: [Gimp-user] resizing image creates blurry image

[Owen <owen cook gmx com>]

Are you talking pixels as the unit, ie, 398x398 pixels and trying to reduce that to 28x28 pixels.

If so, I think you are going to be out of luck as the reduction is too great.

Using reductio ad absurdum, what would you expect if you tried to reduce the image to 1x1 pixel?

You cannot expect to have anything like the same information (image likeness) when reduced to such a small 
amount, approx .6% of the original).



Owen

> I'm trying to resize an image from 398x398 to 28x28.  I've followed several
> guides and each time gives me the same effect.
>
> Things I've tried:  
>
> 1. Resize to 28x28 using NoHalo 
> 2. Apply Gaussian blur then resize using NoHalo, finally using Unsharp Mask to
> sharpen
> 3. Resize to 28x28 using LoHalo
> 4. Apply Gaussian blur then resize using LoHalo, finally using Unsharp Mask to
> sharpen
>
> each of them came out with the same effect of the image being blurry.  I'm not
> sure what I'm doing wrong and none of the guides I've seen seem to help.