Reduce and then resize back to original size with Free Transform Tool: quality loss?

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Hello,On Photoshop if you reduce the size of a layer with the free transform tool and then revert back to original size with the same tool (not using ctrl+z), results in a quality loss?Thank You

NB, colourmanagement · Accepted Answer

Hi

If you click OK to accept the transformation, then is is applied, so now the pixels have been recalculated & the pixels making up the orginal are lost. If you then expand using the same tool then qaulity will suffer. Better to use history and step back

You can easily test this by overdoing the transform (downsize) and you'll see the loss on screen.

I hope this helps

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thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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c.pfaffenbichler · Answer

And therfore it bears to repeat three important things about working in Photoshop:

• Smart Objects

Smart Objects do not accumulate additional image degradation with repeated transformation/warp/… because the results are calculated based on the contained data, not on the previously damaged data.

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