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Old 08-23-2005, 12:42 PM
TheTROLL TheTROLL is offline
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Default Re: OT: Reducing an image\'s size in Photoshop without reducing quality

Not for that sort of scale change - think about what you're asking the software to do: imagine the image were 7x7 and you want it to be 6x6. You can't just chop out an arbitrary pixel, it might be crucial to the image... so you have to "average" out that pixel's colour across the surrounding pixels, turning fine lines into blurs. As posted earlier, halving dimensions works well, since you are combining pairs of pixels into a single pixel. Trying to remove 10% of the pixels is inherently problematic.
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