iridescentfyre · Oct 22, 2007, 06:25 PM // 18:25

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Originally Posted by Mr. Fahrenheit

Hopefully someone would share their secret and make a tutorial on how to make it in photoshop.

No, no, no. Read my last few posts, I've been trying to explain why you won't find a tutorial for that. There is no a secret technique to doing this.

If you take a 100x100 image (that's 1,000 pixels) and enlarge it to 200x200 (4,000 pixels), you're asking Photoshop to pull 3,000 pixels worth of data out of its ass. There's a lot of complicated formulae that it uses to come up with that extra data, but basically the end result is that it triples the pixels already there. Its a mathematical fact that it will always always always look worse than the original, its only a matter of degree. If you really want a bigger image it can be done with Image -> Image Size, but the reality you have to deal with is that you will lose quality.

The few (keyword here) high-quality large icons showing up in this thread were clearly rendered at that size originally and then scaled down to the size needed in game. If it were me, and I knew I absolutely needed the highest res images possible, I would try to contact Gaile and ask for them. Failing that, I'd try to make due with the smaller ones.