seeing as you have delphi.. Get the GraphicsEx.pas and use their stretch routine. Fast and very high quality. :D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Alister Christie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alister@salespartner.co.nz">alister@salespartner.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The GiMP is always handy for image manipulation. Generally I draw my<br>
images in a really old version of Corel Draw, then use GiMP for<br>
transparance, shadows and so on.<br>
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John Bird wrote:<br>
> Resizing images for Images, bitButtons and icons - I guess we all do this.<br>
><br>
> I have used IrfanView and Photofiltre for resizing images, and<br>
> noticed they tend to alter the edge pixels around an image - I guess<br>
> it averages the pixel colours on a sharp edge if resizing<br>
> smaller. This is a problem with images with a background surround -<br>
> these pixels are not the transparent background colour any more and<br>
> create a ragged edge noticeable when the image is on a darker background.<br>
><br>
> How do others resize images properly?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> (Example is the Analogue clock with the image background some are<br>
> using- over a dark background you may see there are a fewer light<br>
> pixels around the edge that shouldn't be there)<br>
><br>
><br>
> John<br>
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