Simple resolution question

[rutledj]

I have a large .tiff file that I need to resize to about 160 px square. When I do this the text becomes very blurred. It is razor sharp in it's large state.

It doesn't seem to matter what format I try to save it in, it still gets blurry.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rut

[Andrei Doubrovs]

Hi Rut,
The blurring after such a resizing is quite natural.
Try other resampling algorithms ("bilinear" or "bicubic sharper" may work better for text) and / or sharpen the resampled image with a filter.

[RTW1]

I have a large .tiff file that I need to resize to about 160 px square. When I do this the text becomes very blurred. It is razor sharp in it's large state.

It doesn't seem to matter what format I try to save it in, it still gets blurry.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rut

if the text is on its own layer, change the text setting to crisp instead of smooth, this should help