Are HD presets possible?

[FlyingGrass]

Is it possible to make an HD preset? One that doesn't look as pixel-y?

Paint.net is the paint program I use, it isn't good at making photos HD via any way other than increasing the size of the photo.

[G4RG0YLE]

I'd try downloading other softwares, such as GIMP, Paint Tool SAI, MediBang, or Krita. They're probably going to give you better quality results than the Pant programme you use.

[FlyingGrass]

I'd try downloading other softwares, such as GIMP, Paint Tool SAI, MediBang, or Krita. They're probably going to give you better quality results than the Pant programme you use.

I'll try GIMP and Paint Tool SAI as those are the other two I have.

[FlyingGrass]

I opened the same image with GIMP and Paint Tool SAI, yet the image was still as pixel-y as before.

I tried scaling the image, I saw the X Resolution and Y Resolution, nothing happened when I increased both resolutions.

[Vilivikhorith]

Unfortunately when you scale an image down, you lose information, so simply scaling an image up will increase the pixelation. You might be able to hide it with a gaussian blur + sharpen filtre though (and a lot of tweaking). If you want true HD textures, you should make your source material at a higher resolution, i.e. 4096x4096 pixels and scale down if you get performance issues.

[FlyingGrass]

Unfortunately when you scale an image down, you lose information, so simply scaling an image up will increase the pixelation. You might be able to hide it with a gaussian blur + sharpen filtre though (and a lot of tweaking). If you want true HD textures, you should make your source material at a higher resolution, i.e. 4096x4096 pixels and scale down if you get performance issues.

I tried resizing an HD image to the size of a preset image, but it didn't affect how pixel-y the preset image was.

[Morgra]

Unfortunately when you scale an image down, you lose information, so simply scaling an image up will increase the pixelation. You might be able to hide it with a gaussian blur + sharpen filtre though (and a lot of tweaking). If you want true HD textures, you should make your source material at a higher resolution, i.e. 4096x4096 pixels and scale down if you get performance issues.

I tried resizing an HD image to the size of a preset image, but it didn't affect how pixel-y the preset image was.

With presets, you can use other sizes other than 512 x 512. So rather than scaling down the HD image to a resolution of 512 x 512 you can leave it at the HD resolution.

Oftentimes, people will make their presets 1024 x 1024 which is twice the resolution of the standard size and it does produce a less pixelated version of the preset.

[FlyingGrass]

Unfortunately when you scale an image down, you lose information, so simply scaling an image up will increase the pixelation. You might be able to hide it with a gaussian blur + sharpen filtre though (and a lot of tweaking). If you want true HD textures, you should make your source material at a higher resolution, i.e. 4096x4096 pixels and scale down if you get performance issues.

I tried resizing an HD image to the size of a preset image, but it didn't affect how pixel-y the preset image was.

With presets, you can use other sizes other than 512 x 512. So rather than scaling down the HD image to a resolution of 512 x 512 you can leave it at the HD resolution.

Oftentimes, people will make their presets 1024 x 1024 which is twice the resolution of the standard size and it does produce a less pixelated version of the preset.

I tried resizing the preset image to 1024x1024, and it works! Thank you!

This can be locked.

[Kynvuu]

Locking this as the issue has been solved. c: