Pixelation when scaling down a placed jpg

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January 14, 2017
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I placed a .jpg Adobe Stock photo in an Ai template and when I scale it down smaller it becomes pixelated. When I place it and it starts off as the large image the resolution is fine, but when I scale it down smaller it introduces pixelation.

Anna_Lander

Community Expert

it’s a common misconception that scaling down the raster image doesn’t degrade its quality. You need a special scaling algorithm (e.g. bicubic) that is in Photoshop but not in Illustrator. Illustrator is a composing software, not photo-editing. You can find the best size for the image in your layout and then set the correct size in Photoshop.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

A JPEG is a raster based file.

What do you expect to happen?

C

cccinemasAuthor

Participant

This is my first time using Illustrator. I didn't expect it to pixelate from scaling it down smaller. Going larger I would expect it. I never had this issue with other Adobe programs.

Is there no way to fix it? I'm just looking for a solution.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

First of all this might onyl be a screen preview issue and when printing this looks better.

Secondly Illustrator is not specialized in pushing pixels around. If you need a smaller image, you'd better do that kind of operation in Photoshop and then place the smaller image in Illustrator.

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