1.0.6: Aliasing when resizing

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2018-01-23 22:04:12

This seems to be a new issue with 1.0.6.

In the original Pixelmator, in Photoshop, and in previous versions of Pixelmator Pro, it seemed like a low quality scaling algorithm (not quite nearest neighbour, but not much better) is used to generate a realtime preview while the user adjusts the scale parameters/handles, and then when the scale operation is completed a higher quality algorithm (bilinear? cubic?) is used to generate a great-looking result.

Now, when resizing a layer, I'm seeing really bad aliasing or sampling error that persists all the way through to export. It's almost as if the low-quality preview algorithm is also applied after the resizing operation is complete.

Original PNG:

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Scaled to 50% in Pixelmator 3.7, then exported to PNG:

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Scaled to 50% in Pixelmator Pro 1.0.6, then exported to PNG:

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Resizing in Pixelmator Pro used to be one of my favourite features, since it seemingly was done non-destructively. That was fantastic, and I'd love for that behaviour to persist into the future. I just want to make sure that when it comes time to do a final render at the target size, that a high quality scaling algorithm is used.
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2018-01-24 17:13:02

Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention!
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2018-02-01 20:54:26

Just in case this got overlooked — it seems like this issue is still present in 1.0.7
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2018-02-02 06:01:27

Sorry for not replying sooner — this is a known issue, the current resampling algorithm isn't working quite as well as we'd hoped, so we'll be improving it, although the changes might have to wait a short while as we're planning to add additional resampling algorithms (e.g. nearest neighbor and Lanczos) to Pixelmator Pro. In any case, thanks for keeping us on our toes!
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2018-02-03 17:47:00

Excellent. Thanks for the response!
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2018-07-23 20:29:45

I just wanted to bump this topic, as this issue is still present in 1.1.2. It's the only thing holding me back from using Pixelmator Pro full-time.
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2021-01-28 21:59:34

Seems to be here in 2.0.3 as well...
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2021-02-02 17:48:38

by perpetuity 2021-01-28 19:59:34 Seems to be here in 2.0.3 as well...
Could you double-check which scaling algorithm you're using for resizing?