Stop Anti-Aliasing Images Resized in a Post?

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    thatmantisguy · Member ·

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    If you see the image in this post, it is pixel art. I wanted to upscale it to a higher resolution but the anti-aliasing “smoothing” effect ruins it. I know in earlier versions of WordPress this hasn’t been an issue. How can I stop this smoothing?

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    thatmantisguy · Member ·

    Oh, didn’t realise this wasn’t the support forum…

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    thatmantisguy · Member ·

    Anyway, this isn’t site-specific—it will happen on all WordPress sites, so I hope I can get help here. :)

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    timethief · Member ·

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    timethief · Member ·

    Nerts! “gelp” was of course meant to be “help”. We cannot help you here.

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    thatmantisguy · Member ·

    What difference does it make? I’m willing to bet the image uploader is exactly the same on here. There’s no need to act like a bureaucratic old scrooge. But okay, I’ll register for another account on another site because I’m being refused help for trivial reasons. Timethief indeed.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Upload two images. One the exact size that is required for the post. The other the larger version you want linked to the smaller image. This way you are in control of the resizing and resampling. Insert the smaller image into the post and then link it to the larger image. If the image is the exact width required for your them post area, then wordpress will not mess with it.

    WordPress resizes image to save people from themselves. You would not believe the number of people that will put a 2000px wide image into a 500px wide post and then wonder why their blog blew up.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Also, if you care about image quality, ALWAYS do your image rescaling/resizing/resampling in a dedicated image editing program on your computer. Never rely on the image editor here for anything critical. It simply cannot compete with a image editing program.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    And one other thing. Enlarging images has limits. If you start with something that is 100px wide, and try to make it 500px wide, it is going to lose a lot of quality, even in Photoshop, a $900 image editing program. There are just too many pixels that the program has to create and insert into the image. It’s simple mathematics.

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    thatmantisguy · Member ·

    Yep, I would do it myself, but for the sake of bandwidth and disk space I wanted to see if WordPress could handle the image resize without anti-aliasing. The images I upload aren’t that large anyway. (As you may have seen the source image was very small.)

    Thanks for the advice. I’ll do as suggested in future. :)

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