KarinC

I want these! Maybe you could release them in smaller sets. Soon.

I would like to know also. I've found snapping one object to another to be hit or miss. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't.

Yes.

Quite honestly I didn't even know Designer had a smooth tool. I guess I never have had a wish to use it. I like to make all the decisions about my nodes.

I didn't mean to criticize your skill. Illustrator has a smooth tool which would be really nice to have in Designer. But since we don't have something like that you do have to zoom in and delete piled-up nodes. If you plan to expand a stroke it would probably be better to draw it with the pen tool instead of the pencil tool.

I use expand stroke often. I wouldn't want it to ignore certain nodes. I start with a clean stroke to begin with by going in and cleaning up extra nodes or adding a node or two if handles are overlapping. Having to clean up a stroke made with the pencil tool is just part of vector drawing. It's good practice even if you aren't going to expand the stroke.

Ha! I didn't know that! Thank you. The sources that say that a pixel is 1/96 of an inch would not be correct then - right - wrong? Even the word portmanteau is a portmanteau. I love learning a new word.

It is kind of interesting regarding pixels. I googled pixels, what size are they, etc. The answers were all over the place. Some say they are only a number and do not really exist, some answers say that they have a definite size, others say they don't. It is kind of curious what IS happening to them when you resize an image. Someone must know. It reminds me of what my 94 year-old father said when he discovered google earth. "That is where the internet is, you know". "No, dad, I didn't know that", I responded.

Using resample when cropping works. Thank you @thomaso edit: also using Lanczos 3 (non separable) under export helps, too. The image is still a little blurry using bilinear.

I was using unconstrained when cropping - is that the issue? I tried using the large image I posted here and resizing it - instead of resizing the result from cropping (unconstrained) then I get good quality.

Smaller in terms of pixel dimensions - about half the size.

I have to get these images off from a slideshow on another website. The large image I posted was the result from cropping the screenshot. I didn't upload the screenshot since it has client information on it.

I don't get it either. I just tried opening the screenshot in Windows Photos. Cropped it (which gives me a smaller image instead of the giant sized image I was getting when I cropped it in Photo) and resized it with no bells or whistles and got a good sharp small jpg. I'll just go with that until I can figure it out.

@thomaso So, how did you do that?

I've done this hundreds of times in an old version (9 I think) of Paint Shop Pro. I would grab a screen shot from the same source as this which is easier in PSP because you can get screen shot within the program. I cropped them then resized them even smaller than this one. I would always get crisp images. I have a few more I did with Photo that are larger and they are blurry too. I still have PSP on my old computer. I may have to go back to it to get this done. I will get screenshots of the settings in the morning. I'm too tired right now.