I wonder if anyone can offer suggestions on how to achieve the following result. Screen shot 1 shows an image which is a composite, and quite large. Screenshot 2 shows the same subject (a column), with its background, but not as a composite. It’s quite a bit smaller. I’d like to overlay the column on the background, but I need to enlarge the background, or shrink the column. My thought was to meet somewhere in the middle, and do both. Since I plan to apply a Gaussian blur to the background, my hope is that the pixilation which results from enlarging the background will not be evident, or a problem. For the base of the column background, I’ll clone in the base from the larger (column) image so that it appears natural. As the blur increases with the background distance, the decrease in image quality won’t be an issue (I hope). Does this sound like a good (or the only) way to achieve my objective? Finally, I was told that resampling *always* degrades image quality. Obviously, this is true of down sampling, but is it true of up sampling? I would think more PPI would mean better quality, but perhaps there‘s a point where there are *too many* PPI? What is the best way to take a big image and make it smaller, if that’s required? Thank you.
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