Resizing tokens

[gmkieran]

I'm afraid any re-sizing you do, no matter what tool you use, is going to degrade image quality (unless you drop $500+ on software that can do interpolative image enhancement). That said, I've always just used the image resizer powertool for Windows, but I don't generally start with images as large as the WotC ones, so I don't see as much drop-off; it has the advantage of being able to mass update. TokenTool might be an option for individual tokens, but I don't know that it would be any better than Paint for resolution issues.

Luck!
GMK

[Zeus]

Hot tip: Check out ImageMagick (freeware).

It supports interpolation (determining the colour of a pixel from surrounding pixels) by way of its -interpolate flag including the following types:

integer The color of the top-left pixel (floor function)
nearest-neighbor The nearest pixel to the lookup point (rounded function)
average The average color of the surrounding four pixels
bilinear A double linear interpolation of pixels (the default)
mesh Divide area into two flat triangular interpolations
bicubic Fitted bicubic-spines of surrounding 16 pixels
spline Direct spline curves (colors are blurred)

as well as custom filters and can be used alongside the -resize % flag.

I often use ImageMagick as its great dealing with batch workloads i.e. resizing batches of tokens. I tend to use the bicubic type when reducing image size, its slower but does a better smoother job of pixel colouring. Its available on Windows, Linux and OSX.

[The Overlord]

I'm afraid any re-sizing you do, no matter what tool you use, is going to degrade image quality (unless you drop $500+ on software that can do interpolative image enhancement). That said, I've always just used the image resizer powertool for Windows, but I don't generally start with images as large as the WotC ones, so I don't see as much drop-off; it has the advantage of being able to mass update. TokenTool might be an option for individual tokens, but I don't know that it would be any better than Paint for resolution issues.

Luck!
GMK

Hot tip: Check out ImageMagick (freeware).

It supports interpolation (determining the colour of a pixel from surrounding pixels) by way of its -interpolate flag including the following types:

integer The color of the top-left pixel (floor function)
nearest-neighbor The nearest pixel to the lookup point (rounded function)
average The average color of the surrounding four pixels
bilinear A double linear interpolation of pixels (the default)
mesh Divide area into two flat triangular interpolations
bicubic Fitted bicubic-spines of surrounding 16 pixels
spline Direct spline curves (colors are blurred)

as well as custom filters and can be used alongside the -resize % flag.

I often use ImageMagick as its great dealing with batch workloads i.e. resizing batches of tokens. I tend to use the bicubic type when reducing image size, its slower but does a better smoother job of pixel colouring. Its available on Windows, Linux and OSX.

Okay, manythanks to you both for the quick reply. I will try imageshack. If you need an extra 3.5 player, let me know, just throwing that out there