I open a high quality photo in Photoshop. I then cut the section I want into another image (I am making a cover photo for Facebook 848 x 315 px). When I paste the image and scale it appropriately it appears to be pixalated when I zoom in. I am wondering is it when I set up a new image to paste it to, am I setting it up wrong?
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2Are you scaling the image up? That will always cause "blurriness" (pixelation). Zooming in will always cause this in Photoshop too, as it's a raster image editor.– ManlyAug 30, 2016 at 19:41
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You're scaling your image and zooming, that's your problem. Scaling = loss of quality. Zooming = enlarging the pixels.– CaiAug 30, 2016 at 19:44
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I believe I am scaling the image down. Would this still have the same result?– SfockerAug 30, 2016 at 19:46
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4@Sfocker scaling your image down means there are literally less pixels so yes, thats your problem. If your image looks ok at 100% zoom then you are ok, no need to zoom in. A raster image is meant to be viewed at its actual size, any raster image will look pixelated when zoomed in, thats just the nature of raster images.– CaiAug 30, 2016 at 19:52
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Make sure interpolation is set to Bicubic (sharp or smooth) in Preferences:
