: Does making pictures with bigger dimensions than actually needed enhance their quality? Clarifications I need the picture for my website, that is, it'll be for online purposes. I'll be using PNG

@Carla748

Depending on what software you use, making a bigger picture for the "master" can be useful. While reducing the size with a different program from the one used to create the image can sometimes cause issues, it is MUCH harder to take a small image and make it larger.

That said if you create the image in photoshop, I would definitely suggest using an even multiple of the dimensions (2x or 4x as big) as the desired eventual size. Also be sure to reduce the size in your image editing software, not with some other program.

Finally depending on your software it is probably worthwhile to do a quick test to make sure it will come out the way you want. If creating an image at doublesize and reducing it makes the final product look bad, better to find out early and just make the image the "correct" size from the get go.

Software and situation both affect the answer though, so what works for one project may not work for another.

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@Shelley591

Does making pictures with bigger dimensions than actually needed enhance their quality?


No.

In the end, you're still left with the same amount of image data as if you had started at that size.

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@Rambettina927

I would create the image with the dimensions you are going to use. Creating a larger image then cutting the size can cause the image to look worse because of downsampling.

I'm not sure if thats what your looking for. What are you talking about 300 x 200 paper?

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