Avoid Quality Loss when Resizing Images

We are going to be offering some tips to our readers on image and videos over the next few months that should help with everyones work and the quality of content on Cutcaster.

Photo resolution confused even us for a long time. It is probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of digital image editing. Taking a closer look, image resolution only matters if you're going to print the image. For images that live onscreen, it's the pixel dimensions that matter as most of you know. Pixel widths and heights can be measured at any resolution. However, you have to be careful how you change it. If you open up the Image Size dialog in Photoshop and uncheck the Resample Image checkbox at the bottom left. This locks the pixel data, holding in place the quality. It can be confusing because the onscreen image won’t change a bit; but digging a bit deeper, the truth will only be revealed by the Image Size dialogue box.

Let us know if there are any other tips that can be helpful with resizing images.