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Aleksowlade
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August 5, 2019
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Photoshop image [text] loses quality when downscaling

  • August 5, 2019
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I know this topic was discussed before but I still did not find the answer to my problem.

I have a psd project and the overall image size is 4800 x 6000. When I'm trying to scale it down to 1080 x 1350 (I want to export it for Instagram) it loses a lot of quality and all the text is unreadable.

I tried every Resample method when i'm scaling but none of them worked.

Can someone please help?

Thank you for your time!

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 5, 2019

Can someone please help?

Without a sample and knowing what the target reduction % size or target pixel width/depth is it is hard offer anything but generic comments. Therefore a sample crop of the original area and the best (worse) result that you have achieved would help.

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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August 5, 2019
  1. Start with a high resolution image -- 150 ppi or higher.
  2. Add a text layer of your own and make the font size large enough for the job.
  3. Do not flatten image.
  4. Go to File > Export > Export As > JPG.  Select desired height and width.   Reduce quality to keep file size smaller.

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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Lumigraphics
Legend
August 5, 2019

Is the text rendered or still text layers? And yes this is what happens, depending on the image you can lose fine detail when downscaling.

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AleksowladeAuthor
Participant
August 5, 2019

The text is actually part of another image, is not text created by me.

jane-e
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jane-eCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 6, 2019

Hi

Is the text still text or is it now raster? If it is not text and if you do not have access to the live text, then your only options appear to be to retype the text or have unreadable text.

There is a slim possibility for other options, but we would have to see screenshots of the image and Layers panel.

~ Jane

Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
August 5, 2019

Hi Vlad,

Sorry to hear that that image loses quality when you downscale it.

Could you try converting the layer to smart object and then try down-scaling it? https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/using/create-smart-objects.html

Regards,
Sahil

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AleksowladeAuthor
Participant
August 5, 2019

Thanks for your answer,

Yeah I actually merged all layers into one image and then converted it into smart object but still, the text not readable

Trevor.Dennis
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Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 5, 2019

vladalex40  wrote

Thanks for your answer,

Yeah I actually merged all layers into one image and then converted it into smart object but still, the text not readable

As Stephen has said, you need to provide the image for us to have a decent chance of providing a good answer, but even without seeing it, I strongly suspect that my approach would be to remove the current text and redo it with a Type layer, and use a font that works well at the size you require.

So I suspect that the issue now comes down to what the best way of removing the original text is?  That will likely be a combination of Patch tool, Healing brush, and Clone tool.  So we still need to see the original.  Just copy the image to clipboard, and paste it to this thread with Ctrl V.  Easy peasy.

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