Timeline for What changes (specifically improvements) occur to image quality when you reduce the resolution in post?
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| Jul 22, 2013 at 1:33 | comment | added | Itai | @DavyCrockett - The first it hit me I was looking at Max Lyons' photographs and wondering why they have such a different feel. Online their resolution is low but they are downsampled from large panoramas and they just have this kind of ultra-clean, almost too noise-free look. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 1:12 | comment | added | Itai | You cannot get back the original data because it is not an reversible transformation. The main point is that the lost pixels are used in order to produce new ones. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 22:36 | comment | added | mattdm | "Discarding" might be a bit dramatic, but you are losing information which you cannot get back. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 22:02 | comment | added | DavyCrockett | Okay thanks, I like you answer but I going to leave the question open for a little while and see if anything else comes in that wants to go into more details and examples of changes/improvements that occur. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 21:04 | comment | added | Itai | It's been a while I worked on those, so not off the top the my head anymore. I see that there is some high-level info at Cambridge in Color and on Wikipedia and even several Stackoverflow questions on the topic though. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 20:25 | vote | accept | DavyCrockett | ||
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| Jul 21, 2013 at 20:22 | comment | added | DavyCrockett | Do you have any information or links about different downsampling techniques? | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 19:59 | history | answered | Itai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |