In our rush to get 1.0 of Picturesque out before the close of the Apple Design Awards, we didn’t give the image resizing features the love and attention they deserved.
As a result, our current implementation of resizing is less than great, and images loose a lot of their quality when scaled down in Picturesque.
Resizing isn’t technically beautification, but it is one of those day-to-day tasks that people do a lot and neither Preview or iPhoto do it well. In the past I’ve used Photoshop for most of my image resizing, which seems like overkill for such a simple task.
So one of the most frequent requests we receive is for better resizing in Picturesque and we’ve been working on integrating a new resizing algorithm into the app, which will be part of the next update.
Here are some samples of the old resizing algorithm quality verses the new resizing algorithm quality:
As you can see the improvement is pretty dramatic:
Expect the update in the next week or two, and keep your improvement suggestions coming.
-Zac
