Day 3,0479 : Twinksez has posted for the one-thousand one-hundred second time, same old same old. I suspect the user is in fact, an artificial illustrator, some bot or machine, ever posting for reasons unknown. I cannot shake the feeling furries are somehow not safe.

I think I have seen this happen with this character owner and artist earlier, where both versions are technically same quality, but character owners versions is downscaled with extremely much more sharper method. That does add slight halo around high contrast edges, but that does preserve smaller details and keeps everything extremely sharp in normal viewing zoom.

The background looks like when you change a game's foliage % to 100, but keep the texture quality at Very Low

Mairo said:
I think I have seen this happen with this character owner and artist earlier, where both versions are technically same quality, but character owners versions is downscaled with extremely much more sharper method. That does add slight halo around high contrast edges, but that does preserve smaller details and keeps everything extremely sharp in normal viewing zoom.

Usually when artists send me .jpg finals, I convert the large file over to .png and then regenerate the upload/smaller version to get rid of any blurring/pixelation/banding that may have been introduced via jpg compression.

Afevis said:
Usually when artists send me .jpg finals, I convert the large file over to .png and then regenerate the upload/smaller version to get rid of any blurring/pixelation/banding that may have been introduced via jpg compression.

I wouldn't convert JPG into PNG directly because all you get is bloat, but if doing downscaled public release then saving as PNG then is definitely right call. But like said, the way the image is downscaled does still highly effect on how the smaller version looks because not all downscaling methods/filterings are the same.

Altough I would almost just go the route of demanding artist to send PNG file if it's something I paid for. Sending even large files in current year shouldn't be that hard.