Josie Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 If the image looks to pixelated in affinity photo or designer what can I do to touch it up and make it not look so rough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted May 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 14, 2019 Hi Josie, If it is very pixelated I would say there isn't much you can do I'm afraid. If possible could you provide an example picture? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Depending on how rough it looks & the subject matter, you could try adding a very small amount of Gaussian blur to it. You can also try resizing it to larger dimensions using the Document > Resize Document with "Resample" ticked & experiment with Bilinear or Bicubic resampling, followed by adding a bit of Gaussian blur. Basically, the more pixels you have to work with, the smoother you should be able to get the image to look. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josie Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 How can I smooth out a pixelated image so it doesn’t look so rough when I’m doing art in affinity photo or designer? Using the iPad? To put it up to sell online thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 What format are you exporting? All pixel formats will, by definition, be somewhat pixellated. Of the various formats, .gif is usually the worst (its the oldest, back when everything was pixelated), .jpg not compressed or only slightly will be good, as will .png. Only .svg can be made close to no pixels/dots, because it is not a pixel image till rendered at whatever the highest resolution of the rendering device is. How are you making the art? Are you adding images from other sources into ones made w. Affinity apps? If those are pixellated, you might be able to process them into something useful. As R C-R mentions resampling, which is often helpful. Again, give an example. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josie Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 I’m doing png and importing image vector files and how do I resample? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granddaddy Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Those wanting to increase resolution of a photo to reduce pixelation by following the procedure mentioned above by @R C-R will find it helpful to watch the Affinity Revolution tutorial How to Increase Resolution - Affinity Photo Tutorial Quote Affinity Photo 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6; Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6. Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2. Dell XPS 8940, 16 GB Ram, Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 If original is vector file resampling should not be needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 The original file could contain bitmap images. I just d0loaded the youtube logo as an .eps, and it included a badly pixelated image for the shiny screen glint. It needed to be blurred. I suspect that the pixelization problem may be because the .png file is not large enough to start, or is being exported at a smaller size. As I mentioned above, all bitmaps will have shapes w. pixelated edges. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamw Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I have been working on some images like this and I am trying to get some ideas about the process. Is it generally better to do a blur first then resample? or resample first then blur? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Hi, Resample with higher destination resolution has a inherent blur effect, in general it should be done first. Why not simply try both just to find out what works best for your actual images? Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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