LancerChronics on 20/10/2008 at 03:47
So basically, I'm trying on icewind dale 2 again and i'm making a theme group(based on Fable). the game portraits and current custom portraits don't cut it, so I went to the official website of fable and grabbed the concept arts of all the major characters(Briar Rose, Maze, Jack, Whisper, ect).
Now I need to resize them to 210X330 and 42x42. I tried doing it in paint but the image degrades too much. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but I have a mod that makes icewind dale 2 into widescreen(and fixes my laptop keyboard unresponsiveness to boot!), and all of the portraits get blown up larger and therefore higher quality would be nicer. I also need to be able to crop the images based on a ratio first too, since the concept art isn't in proportion to the portrait size (generally 500x700, or 500x900)
Any ideas would be really helpful, thx in advance.
theBlackman on 20/10/2008 at 20:42
Or even (
www.xnview.com) reads all formats and has tweaks for most.
LancerChronics on 20/10/2008 at 23:28
Thx for the ideas guys (GIMP 2 is especially cool). But none of them do what i really need. Yes, I can crop and minimize, but all the programs resample the image and therefore delete pixels to make it smaller, thus making it blurry once its blown back up again on my monitor. What I need is a program that crops, resizes, and allows for the option to *shrink the pixels* rather than remove them(even if it mean the file will get huge). basically think of a way to take a picture, shrink it, save it, then enlarge the save to its original size without any quality loss.
So thx, and keep the ideas coming.
Huckeye on 20/10/2008 at 23:42
I think what you are trying to do is limited by the original format and resolution of the base image you are working with. Some images will scale and some will not. I'm guessing the ones you are working with simply won't scale without picture loss.
Someone may correct me on this, but I think you might be out of luck if you want to maintain all the image properties, crispness, details, etc. and enlarge the image at the same time if it wasn't meant to display larger.
