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martink15467522
Inspiring
Jun 16, 2026 11:04 AM UTC
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Rasterizing an existing image to lower ppi

I don’t know if this is even possible to calculate somehow, but maybe someone can help. If i have a 200ppi image in a file, and i want it to keep the size, but have 150 ppi, is there a way to calculate what ppi i have to use for rasterizing? I am aware that rasterizing an image from 200 ppi to 150 ppi will not give out the same result as rasterizing a vector object to 150 ppi. 

Again, for example

  1. Vector object > rasterize 150 ppi > object with certain “pixel density”
  2. 200 ppi image > rasterise ? ppi > object with same pixel density as option 1 (150 ppi) < is this even possible? 

 

Ton Frederiks
Ton FrederiksCorrect answer
Community Expert
Jun 16, 2026 5:50 PM UTC

I understood that you were talking about images and yes, lowering the resolution gives a lower quality.

Of course rasterizing a vector will make it an image and lose all the advantages of a scalable vector object.

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Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jun 16, 2026 11:42 AM UTC

​@martink15467522 You can select an image, select Crop and set the PPI in the Control panel and hit enter

 

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martink15467522
Inspiring
Jun 16, 2026 11:56 AM UTC

That works, but the new image still has lower quality then the original 150 ppi one because it rasterizes the image twice ( rasterizing from 200ppi to 150ppi gives lower quality than from vector to 150 ppi) 

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Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
Jun 16, 2026 5:50 PM UTC

I understood that you were talking about images and yes, lowering the resolution gives a lower quality.

Of course rasterizing a vector will make it an image and lose all the advantages of a scalable vector object.

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