Artwork resolution question

[gstuff720]

Hi there, I'm brand new to InDesign and thrilled to be here!

If I bring artwork or a picture into an InDesign document, scale it down, then scale it back up, it looks fuzzy, even in preview mode. Is this degrading the resolution of the artwork? What is the proper way to re-upscale something on the canvas?

Thanks!

Greg

[MW Design · Accepted solution]

All you are affecting is a proxy, a preview image. The original isn't being touched--as long as it is linked anyway.

Dunno why the preview is being affected. But you could try forcing a high res verison by right-clicking on the image and near the bottom of the context menu there will be a flyout with options for choosing the proxy image resolution.

If in doubt, the links panel will have an option to view the effective resolution, which is what really matters. And you could do an export to PDF and take a look as well.

Mike

[BlackChrome]

Hi Greg,

It's not degrading the artwork because it's just a linked image, the real art is unaffected (but don't take it over 100% of actual size or it will start to lose resolution). I think what you're describing is the various preview modes. Have you tried right clicking on the image and setting display performance to high quality display?

[gstuff720]

Great! Thank you both. This is helpful to know.