Hello together, I have a question to the graphics designer out there.
I'm working on a project where I need to make small icons with a size of 64x64 pixels. The original pictures I use to downscale are 150x150 pixel and look super sharp. However the moment I downscale them to 64x64 the picture starts lose a lot of detail and sharpness.
My question now, how do I downscale a small picture like that without losing sharpness and detail? Is that possible?

change the interpolation settings.
should be under resample when resizing.

You're going to lose detail on any image you resize to 64x64 pixels.

What you should be doing is designing those icons in a vector format and scaling them down that way.

If you really need to use raster images, then I'd suggest designing the icon at a larger scale (more than 150x150) so you have more resolution to play with, then size it down. But you're still going to notice a loss in sharpness and quality

This post was edited by Strickland on Mar 13 2023 01:29pm

if it is a graphic that can be vectored and scaled down, might as well use .svg format instead of a jpg. Otherwise strickland mentioned if its a rasteur image its limited if the platform requires a static 64x64 with no autoscaling down from an imported file.

thanks for the replies and special thanks to @strickland, actually i got a pretty good result that way, gonna send a small tip tytyty