Is there any better way to go about shrinking the image so it looks smooth?

[congaconzz92]

Hello! So i draw with my canvas at 1800X4000 with a DPI of 600 in Medibang, and then I shrink the canvas size to half with the Change image size option in the edit menu then save it as a PNG, but it always has a pixelated look to it, and it just looks kind of gross.

[kip]

I heard really good things about the site http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ for resizing purposes!

edit: i only used it for sizing up myself but it was really hq. i think it should have a downsizing option but i can’t seem to find it at first look, oops

[J.Lovelace]

PhotoScape is the program that I use to shrink down images and it works pretty well for me. It's for photo editing after all.
It's free and has a lot of handy functions such as making gifs, editing images in batch and merging/cutting images (in pieces).
I recommend it a lot to my friends.

[indigodrawing]

I don't know the software you're using but most art packages have resampling/antialiasing on reduction that can be configured when you do a resize. What options do you have available when you do a resize? Have you tried experimenting with different settings?

[c0ldw1nter]

Well, it has much to do with image interpolation. Photoshop, for example, has the ability to change interpolation type, and apparently the best one to go with when shrinking is "bicubic sharper" (not sure if that's a photoshop exclusive feature, but just bicubic would do nicely). If you find a way to change that in your software settings, you could experiment with different modes.

[kip]

lol i use sai and photoshop but i’m not the one with the problem
op uses medibang & while i’m not sure what it’s resizing options are it wouldn’t surprise me if they were no good

[feardeer]

In my experience, both Medibang and FireAlpaca don't do very well with resizing. When I was using those programs for art, I also downloaded Gimp just to resize. It works much better.