My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?)
Marco Wessel On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi, > > This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it smaller by > resizing it down, but instead it got BIGGER. I don't understand this at > all. > > I put the images on the web: > > Original: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot.png > Resized: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot_resized.png > > With width and height of the resized image are 0.8 times the size of the > original, so I would have imagined that the resized image would be > 0.8*0.8 = 0.64 times the size of the original, but that's not the case: > > $ du -sk * > 52 screenshot.png > 128 screenshot_resized.png > > The new image is over 4 times bigger than the original! > > These are RGB images BTW, but that shouldn't cause this. > > Does anyone know what's happening? > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
