Poor Quality Export

[Victor Bradu]

Hello everyone,

My issue is that I can't export a good quality image for my AudioJungle account.

The requirements: image must be 80x80px; the file can't exceed 50KB

I'd like my avatar to look as sharp as the images of other users on website.

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong and what I can do?

Please see the screenshots with my document setup and export and preview.

[Dan C]

Hi @Victor Bradu,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here!

When exporting to 80px x 80px, there is only so much 'physical space' for pixels, meaning the image can only hold so much information and may appear blurry at high zoom levels.

The preview window you have open is set to 326% zoom on this image and this is likely why you're seeing the blurry edges of the design, I suspect the image would look more crisp at 100% zoom.

I recommend trying the Resample option of Lanczos 3 Separable when exporting the file to JPEG, for a slightly sharper exported image -  however as above there is only so much you can do with an 80px x 80px image to improve visual fidelity.

I hope this helps 

[NotMyFault]

Hi @Victor Bradu,

you can get a logo with perfectly sharp edges, see below.

One trick is to use the procedural texture filter. It oversteers the regular anti-aliasing effect of Affinity which cannot be deactivated elsewise.

Some points to consider:

•  All shapes should be perfectly pixel-aligned
• Enable snapping.
• Check the positions and size in the transform panel while using the "move" tool
• Avoid using stroke with off width (1,3,5,...)
• Export to jpeg with "best quality" and set resample to "Nearest Neighbor"

I hope this helps, too 😉

PS: you may need to look at blend ranges / anti-aliasing / coverage map, too.

 

 

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Edited May 1, 2021 by NotMyFault
Added PS

[loukash]

On 4/3/2021 at 9:34 PM, Victor Bradu said:

what I can do?

Important "tricks" while actually designing your logo if you need pixel-precise and ultrasharp export:

• set your document units to pixel
• enable Grid, I'd use something like spacing: 8 px, divisions: 8
• enable View > View Mode > Pixel
• enable Snapping, with Force Pixel Alignment, Move By Whole Pixels, and Snap To Grid
• if you're working with strokes and text, disable Preferences > User Interface > Show Lines/Text in Points
• use only integer zoom factors 100% 200% 300% 400% etc. when possible, to avoid display antialiasing
• avoid exporting to JPEG, export to PNG instead