Re: Shrinking a picture --- and it becomes blur !!

On Apr 29, 8:13=A0pm, bugbear <bugbear@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> mark.thoma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > On Apr 29, 4:39 pm, hsyq...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> >> As the filesize for a JPG with 8192 X 6144 resolution may go up to
30+
> >> MB, I often have to shrink them to a more reasonable 1024 X 768,
> >> filesize about 800 KB or so.
>
> > As advised, rendering to the size you want may be the best way.
>
> > Or try the "Lanczos" algorithm
>
> Since the downsize is an exact integer (factor of 8)
> I'm not sure Lanczos (or anything "better" than bilinear)
> would help.
>
> =A0 BugBear

But I did also refer to downsizing in much smaller steps - and Lanczos
will possibly help there...