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I guess I must be doing something wrong when I resize photos with preview.
I often takes photos on my Iphone, which I then share via airdrop to my mac (photos). Next, I export the photos to my desktop and then try to resize the photo using preview (from 3500 px to 1000 px). However, when doing so, the photos loose a lot of their quality.
Can someone help me what I am doing wrong?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
How are you exporting the photo from Photos? Are you using "File > export > Export unmodified Original", or are you just dragging the thumbnail from Photos?
And how are you saving the downsized photo in Preview?
You could directly export a downsized version from Photos and avoid the detour to Preview, or the quality loss will accumulate.
Select the photo you air dropped, then use "File > Export > Export one Photo", then use the export settings:
How are you exporting the photo from Photos? Are you using "File > export > Export unmodified Original", or are you just dragging the thumbnail from Photos?
And how are you saving the downsized photo in Preview?
You could directly export a downsized version from Photos and avoid the detour to Preview, or the quality loss will accumulate.
Select the photo you air dropped, then use "File > Export > Export one Photo", then use the export settings:
When you down size a photo you are throwing away a lot of the resolution and detail. At least ensure that you are exporting the resized photo at a very high JPEG quality - the pixel size and file size are a trade-off between image quality and storage used.
We cannot have the cake and eat it.
Thank you. What is so odd is that when I downsize my photos using Paint, there's only a minimal loss of quality.
Also, when I do the same process (on my Mac) with photos I took via my camera (Canon G7X), there's also only a minimal loss of quality.
I am totally puzzled by this ...
Are you sure you are keeping a high JPEG quality level?
Resizing phots
