Reducing Image Resolution

[motrucker]

There is a Windows power tools utility that will change resolution as well as anything around, but only gives you three size options. It is worth a try though. It is a really handy routine to have on your computer anyway.
I agree with GIMP most likely being the best choice. It is easily as powerful as photoshop, and it's free!! It is also harder to use however...
How are you getting the screen shots? any way to reduce resolution on the front end??

[jmbattle]

motorollin,

Reducing it by 90% lots of times seems to lose less quality than reducing it in one hit.

I'm more than a little skeptical of this claim, as the filtering that Photoshop employs when resizing images will undoubtedly prove to be more destructive when repeated several times.

Kind regards,
James
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[XDelusion]

AmiGeezer: You got me going, I thought I had tried those options, but apparently not because the end result looks very acceptable, now I just need to look at it in game and see how it turns out!

 Thank you!

 Thank everyone else for the quick responces and suggestions as well!

[JaXanim]

jorkany wrote:
Why don't you post a link to the larger image(s) and let people here take a crack at it? I mean, 64x52 is small enough to be pasted in messages as a reply here.

Great idea! Upload the parent image to some host or other and post the link here. Let's see how all the contenders manage the task. Chocky bickies for the winner!

JaX

[XDelusion]

I can upload some stuff, would be fun!

[AmiGeezer]

XDelusion wrote:
AmiGeezer: You got me going

I have that effect on people!

 :lol:

No probs - glad you got sorted out.

Matt

[XDelusion]

http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/=work=/StarWarsLegacy/sprites/Trandoshan.rar

Here is one example of the original file, and the smaller version I have made (which still needs to be a wee bit smaller).

 What I am doing is using the Jedi Knight Model viewer, taking screen shots of the models using CONTROL and C, the pastin them into Photo Shop and resizing.

 If anyone can retain quality better than this (with translucent backgrounds) then I'd be all ears, thankx!

[JaXanim]

@XDelusion

Here's what I got using Photofiltre (freeware) on your large image. The resolution of this (right) and the Photoshop one (left) are the same. Displayed together like this, I don't think there's a great difference, but there is some.

Maybe the right one has a more defined outline and looks very slightly 'slimmer'. This is a difference in antialiasing.
Looking at these magnified in a different viewer, the Photoshop one has less contrast and looks more washed out.
I think the original image needs to be improved to get anything better. It looks like a cut and paste has been done, so there's no antialiasing around the outer edge. This causes Photoshop, etc to do a lot of work on the outline. You may be losing some pixels there. The only way to improve the apparent detail on images this small is to add it manually pixel by pixel.

JaX

[Framiga]

probably because the one on the right side carries its own background while the other have a transparent background.