What happened to my quality?

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Hi!

On the right you can see the crest I placed on my sport jersey yesterday. Today (I haven't changed anything in my setting) the re-pasted crest looks like this. I see this atrocious quality drop in every project, no matter what I'm doing/pasting/creating. What happened? Please help!

davescm · Accepted Answer

Check the interpolation setting in the options bar when transforming. It looks like it may be set to Nearest Neighbour. Dave

JJMack · Answer

Both the logo in your small 414 px by 356 px image have around 1000 pixels that were interpolated up in size from a very small raster logo image. Neither has good quality. They are not clear both were pixelated by the up sizing. Even if they were not a 1000px logo would not have readable text the size the text is in that logo. Your Logo should be a placed in Vector Smart Object Layer that would scaled your with vector graphics not via interpretation of a raster image. The Logo would be scaled with the best quality possible. You should not scale logo via interpolation up in size and raster layer should not be repeatedly interpolated up and down in size at least place large high quality logo images. If you don't scale down too much in size your logo should be acceptable but don't have nearest neighbor set ad you Photoshop default interpolation method.

You could use a script like Photoshop script PlaceLogo.jsx customized for your logo file

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