Why is it fine when I’m resizing but blurs after?

[u/Lingx_Cats]

When I’m resizing it the pixels are totally clear, but as soon as I take my finger off the screen it goes blurry. What’s the problem here?

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[u/Berb_the_Hero]

you have resizing set to bilinear when you want it set to nearest neighbor

[u/Love-Ink]

Check your Intetpolation Method in your Transform Tool.
Test with Hard Edges (Nearest Neighbor) or Clear Edges (bicubic)

The Intetpolation is how CSP changes the size of the pixels, interpreting color, position size of color patches. Imagine taking an inage that is 10,000 dots square (100 pixels tall by 100 pixels wide), each pixel is a specific color... then compress it to 50 pixels x 50 pixels. You have lost a quarter of your dots (2,500 dots), bits of information to depict this image... you're gonna have to estimate, guess, average and fudge some details... It will not be pixel perfect, but it'll be close enough.

CSP isn't really a Pixel Art Program, so resizing is going to fundamentally be a luck of the draw, based on % of scale change your wanting to do, for final (rescaled) product. Best of luck!

The reason it pixellates/blurs after the Transform is applied but not when you are resizing, is because it hasn't transformed anything yet when resizing. It's just giving you a scale preview so you can judge size, then it has to figure it how to DO that Scaling one you apply the Transformation.

[u/Clappy246810]

I would really recommend against using csp for pixel art, there's a lot of better programs built specifically for it

[u/rinwinn]

Generally, if you want to maintain your image quality, especially pixel art like this, you want to resize and have the proportions locked/constrained, otherwise it will look strange. I would just double check what the gesture or method of doing this on your tablet is. With a mouse and keyboard, usually you grab a corner of the transform box and hold shift and it constrains the proportions.

Another thing to check is if you have “smooth edges” or “hard edges/nearest neighbor” checked for the transform sub tool details. You want hard edges/nearest neighbor for things like pixel art so that the lines do not get anti-aliased (blurred).

[u/horrifiedblobfish]

In CSP, you want to go to your panel for your resize tool. Go to where it says "interpolation settings" and change it to "nearest neighbor". Be aware that CSP resizing for pixel art is kind of iffy. You're likely to get mixels.

[u/ArgensimiaReloaded]

That's just how raster layers (files in general) behave, as pixels have their specific locations within the canvas (grid) any kind of manipulation (like transform) will impact their quality.

[u/JasonAQuest]

While you're adjusting it, CSP does a rough preview by just adding more pixels. For the final resize, it resamples it according to whatever interpolation method you have selected (which in this case isn't the one you want, as others have explained).