: Browser Scaling vs GIMP--I Can't Match Sharpness I am attempting to scale down a logo that contains text. Original size is 336 x 336 and wish to scale down to 75 x 75. No matter what settings

@Hamaas979

You appear to have zoomed in on the image. You need to view them at 100%. You can't expect to zoom in on images and not see pixels, since they are raster images, and they are made of pixels!

Also when resampling/rescaling an image smaller in GIMP using Image > Scale Image, set the interpolation method to "Sinc(Lanczos 3)" - it's the best method in GIMP for resizing smaller.

However if the image is really very small like yours and the text is small like yours, then there will be a severe degradation in quality, and the text will more or less be unreadable. Nothing you can do about that except perhaps make the text bigger, or perhaps use a vector image editor and make an SVG logo. Of course that might not help either because monitors have pixels, and ultimately all images are rendered as pixels when viewing on a computing device.

This is what your logo looks like at 75 x 75 px @ 100%

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