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your favourite image editing app will scale this wrong.

By March 3, 2010No Comments

Or at least that’s what Eric Brasseur is saying“There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested (August 2007) had the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of Gnome, Paint and Krita. Also three different operating systems were used: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.”

He is saying that even photoshop will scale this image wrong, and I must admit, i was a bit sceptical, since the article was dated 2007, so i downloaded the image off the site and tried it, and sure enough, the only application that did it right was Pixelmator. huh.

lesterbanks

3D, VFX, design, and typography. Twenty year veteran instructor in all things computer graphics.