adjust degee of antialiasing? - RealWorld forums

Is there some way to adjust the amount of smoothing/sharpness when importing images into RWC? Right now I'm using relatively detailed images, and I don't like how blurred they become by default.

Thanks,
Ellen

If you are using a large image as a source it gets resized to the 32x32 or 48x48 size using a fixed method. If you want to have more control over it, you would have to resize the image manually before converting it to a cursor - you can change the "Nearest" method when changing size of an image, but the result will likely be even worse. You can also try sharpening the cursor after creating it from an image.

What do you mean by "nearest" -- sharpest? You mean in the original editor, not RWC?

You can do it in RWCE as it has a built-in image editor, but if you are using another editor, then simply try to resize the images there. It will have probably different names for the resizing methods.

There are 3 resampling/resizing methods in RWCE that you can use when you have in image opened. "Nearest pixel", "Linear interpolation", and "Cubic interpolation". Linear interpolation calculates the area covered by each pixel of the final image and sets its color to the average of the covered pixels. Neares just picks one of the pixels. It does not do any averaging and so it will appear more sharp, but it may look ugly, because some pixel will simply be missing.

Sharpening is not related to resizing and you can do that after you generate the cursor in RWCE.

>There are 3 resampling/resizing methods in RWCE that you can use when you have in image opened. "Nearest pixel", "Linear interpolation", and "Cubic interpolation".<

I can't seem to find how to access those; where are they? BTW, I am finding that the outline option works very nicely for my purposes in clarifying the shape, better than the original outline in a vector image. You've really put a lot of nice features into this program, I must say.

If you open an image and go to menu Image->Resize (Resample), there will be a setting near the bottom of the window.

There is no resize option that I'm seeing in RWCE v. 2013.1. Is there a newer version?

Make sure you have a plain image open, not a cursor. For cursors, it is not available, because their size is fixed.

If I open a PNG file, I do not see the resize option.

Do you at least see the menu command?

No. It's not there. Not in RWCE 2013.1.

That is not right. Are there any other odd things in the menu?

Is the first item in the menu "Rotate ..." or "Canvas size"?

Rotate right, to be exact. There is no canvas size.

In that case, you have a cursor open, not a plain image. RWCE is 2 editors in one and each looks slightly different. The plain image editor can be used to prepare an image or animation for conversion to a cursor. You get to the image editor if you open an image file like .jpg or .png. But you must just open it, not use the "Cursor from Image" wizard.

OK, I see. I was opening a png, but it was as "cursor from image." Thanks!