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The answer applies both to vector and to rasterized icons.
If quality matters, you can't.
Large icons contain more details. Those details, which are nice on a 128×128 icon, would be disturbing on a 32×32 icon; instead of helping visually identify the icon, they will do the opposite. For example, a large icon of a keyboard may contain every key of the ...
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If you need to scale images up at the ratio you're describing, it's practically necessary to work with vector images rather than raster images. The main difference is that raster images are made up of pixels, discrete dots of a fixed size, whereas vector images are described by geometric paths.
The essential point is that vector images can be scaled up ...
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If you don't want your screen shot to be blurry, open the screen shot in PhotoShop, then go to image size, increase the size x2 in each dimension, and then choose 'nearest neighbor' as the interpolation option.
The end result will be an image 4 times larger but the pixels will remain aliased and you won't get the blurring.
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320 / 541 = .591 (that is, 320 pixels is 59.1% of 541 pixels)
600 * .591 = 354.6 (so 354.6 is 59.1% of 600)
rounded up to 355 pixels
There's your width; do the same calculations for the height.
//edit for height:
240 / 341 = .704
449 * .704 = 316.1
round down to 316px
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As Horatio says, if it looks good, it's probably fine.
There are two schools of thought on upsampling: One says, "Never, ever upsample"; the other says, "Hey, what the heck, upsampling rocks." In almost all cases I side with the former. Upsampling adds nothing but "best guesses" to the image. It specifically doesn't add any image information (I don't care ...
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I'm betting that the photo of the girl is killing your size right now. To test that, remove her frame and replace it with one of the other frames of your animation. I'll bet the size drops quite a bit.
Animated GIFs are best kept small by keeping their color pallets limited, and avoiding continuous tone graphics (photos, gradients, opacity shifts, etc.). ...
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There is more information that is required before you question can be answered accurately. However, you may not fully understand the difference between the Type objects that Illustrator creates.
Depending on how you use the Type tool, 3 different basic type objects will be created:
Type in an Area
This is the type "in frames" that Alan refers to. It can ...
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To a degree.....
With the exception of Live Type, Photoshop creates vector containers with raster fills. What this means is the edges of shape layers will remain crisp and clear when resized because the shape/vector layer edge is saved as a vector and it is recalculated when resized.
However, what is inside the shape layer is not vector. For example, if ...
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Select the Artboard Tool on the Tool bar.
You can then click an artboard and change it's size with the options in the Control bar across the top of the screen.
Another method is to highlight the artboard in the Artboard Panel (Window > Artboards) and choose Artboard Options from the Panel menu.
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Converting to a smart object won't change the quality when the image is reduced, it will only allow you to resize the image afterwards back to normal without loss of quality.
Convert to smart object anyway, as it's good practice.
Go to Settings -> General
Change 'Image Interpolation' to 'Bicubic sharper' see if that helps maintain some detail.
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Essentially, you have to draw or re-draw your small icon. Ideally you work from a vector based version that you scale down and then tweak the details on pixel-level, but scaling down a rastered version will work, too. Your scaling results will be better, if you scale exactly 50%, 25%, 12.5%, etc, because photoshop has to blur less between pixels. ...
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Sticking to simple, pre-generated textures, you'll either have to allow some stretching, or allow some slightly awkward overlaps. I believe both ways will need some custom code though.
Using stretching: Place corner caps, round the number of bubble tiles needed to fit in between up or down, and stretch (or shrink) that span to make up the difference:
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You can enable snap to pixel when creating shapes. You can also enable the grid and set the grid lines to X pixels with X subdivisions. You can also align your objects to whole pixels and set their height/width to whole pixels. As well, you can use the marquee tool to select the bounding box of your object and create guides around it that your object can be ...
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This is one of those cases where it's a good idea to plan things out beforehand and do some math. There is no way to take a 128x128 image and reduce it to 40x40 such that your lines will end up as whole pixels, nor aligned with pixel boundaries. You also can't take a one-pixel line, reduce it to 40/128 (5/16ths) of its original size and still have a ...
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In general you have three basic possibilities:
1) Increase your picture's dimensions (on the shortest side) to make it square (As Lauren suggested)
2) Crop them to be square (As DA01 suggested)
3) Stretch your images to fit a square
All three of them have their pros and cons of course.
The first one makes it square, but it adds useless "information".
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Never rely on any print provider to do anything other than spit out your file as it currently exists. I would never trust that something will be output in a specific manner to ensure it is as I expect. If you have to provide instructions or notes on how to output, then it's a recipe for error. If you place a 25ppi image in Indesign it never gets "upsampled" ...
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slice the image above and below the '>' then move the three portions to top, centre, bottom, then either copy and paste a section from the top or bottom pieces (before the rounded corner) and place those in the gab - or take a 1 pixel slice and stretch it between the gaps ( though the latter is less advisable ) if you have any obvious cut lines, use the ...
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Really two questions, here. Broad answer: You're confusing Photoshop and Illustrator. They don't use the same shortcuts and they don't handle text frames the same way.
The keyboard shortcut in Illustrator for Free Transform is E. Ctl+T is the Photoshop shortcut.
As to the font stretching, it sounds like you're using point type (not in a box) or the Free ...
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if i am not wrong, This is not a issue, what are you facing is default keyboard shortcut settings turned on cause of improper termination of application,
default Free Transform tool shortcut key is : E
default Character tool shortcut key is : Ctrl+T
Keyboard shortcuts / Default keyboard shortcuts of adobe
illustrator cs5
Keyboard shortcuts / Default ...
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What is and isn't acceptable quality is really up to person paying the bills. I know people who are perfectly happy taking a 800x600 compressed jpeg and printing it at A4.
Generally speaking if you scale up a smaller image you will get a 'fuzzier', more blurred image than one that was created at the proper resolution. Whether or not the 'fuzziness' is ...
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There's a script for that. (this is probably the script Joonas' comment alludes to - works just fine in CS6).
(to then fit the art board after fitting the text box, use the art board tool and click on the text box)
Courtesy of Kelso Cartography who have loads of great scripts (their scripts to switch point and area text are also highly recommended), you ...
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Let me see. Guessing what you did there:
Image/Canvas Size: Set width to 300px. Leave height unchanged. Click Resize.
Select Region with Text. Cut (Ctrl-X)
Paste (Ctrl-V). Move to right. Text disappers
Right?
So, what happen. Any image in Gimp has at least one layer. You have resized the image, but not the layer. Your text is now a floating selection ...
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This particular set is composed of shapes and text, so resizing is not going to impact quality, but you can't just downsize these icons. An icon is a special kind of infographic. Its purpose is to communicate easily-recognized information at any given size, so your first step, before you start scaling anything, is to identify what parts of the icon carry the ...
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Size isn't changing.
Width and height readouts in the control bar and transform panel are calculated based on artboard perpendiculars (90° angles).
The distance from corner to corner of a 200px square is 282.842 pixels. The distance from side to side is 200pixels. When you rotate the square 45°, the width readout changes to indicate the new width, which is ...
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I would go with cropping using a saved selection. You can't generate an automatic calculation that considers how good a picture will look if you crop this or that way, so you have to do it manually:
Create a selection that is 960px X 200px
Choose Select > Save Selection.
Using that selection, crop your image.
Repeat for all your images choosing the best ...
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There's a script for that by the awesome John Wundes (no affiliation).
It's called Set ALL the things, explained here, and lets you set width and height for selected objects.
It can set a whole bunch of other values for selected items, too, if you know the names for them (or, if you look up their names in the Illustrator Scripting Guide or in that ...
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This is a guess, but it may relate to German ISO extensions:
DIN 476 provides an extension to formats larger than A0, denoted by a prefix factor. In particular, it lists the two formats 2A0, which is twice the area of A0, and 4A0, which is four times A0...DIN 476 also specifies slightly tighter tolerances...
Then in your CAD app's paper size data ...
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As Joonas mentions in his comment, Gimp and Irfanview have both batch processing tools.
Batch processing in Gimp (source)
GIMP comes with a so-called batch mode that allows you to do image processing from the command line. It also makes it easy to apply the same set of operations to a number of images.
gimp -b -
will tell GIMP to start in batch mode ...
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I would convert your layers to one smart object so you can resize it without quality loss. Plus "Unsharp Mask" filter for the smart object.
UPDATE:
You must do all modifications (resize, sharp, effects etc.) before you export the end image. The photoshop smart object can be resized without quality loss. So after you are ready with layout of the icon - just ...
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You say "nothing too complex", so this might be out of the question, but ImageMagick can do this. If you're not familiar with it, it's a command line image editor, so it's great for batch processing.
Resize using a Pixel Area Count Limit
There is one final "-resize" option flag. The "at" symbol '@', will resize an image to contain no more than the ...
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