Hi there. I have a pet illustration that I was thinking about using as a custom overlay. [user not found] currently has a larger sized version. But I don’t totally understand why 200 x 200 when it seems on profiles the pictures of pets are 400x400. Regardless I am having a heck of a time resizing. I am loosing all of the detail even though it’s not SUPER detailed. I have clip studio and procreate. Everything else I got on lock, saving with no background etc. If anyone has any ideas I would love the help. I think that the next pet ai am going to work smaller to begin with lol.

@ undergreenlight you can replace the image with a bigger version on the profile if you want, but the default size for pet images has always been 200x200, so that's the size custom overlays are, too.

unfortunately, downscaling an image will always result in loss of clarity, but you can minimize the quality loss by choosing the right resampling / interpolation option; the one i like in photoshop is called "bicubic sharper." i don't think you can change the resampling method in procreate, but it looks like CSP has a similar option called "clear edges (bicubic)" so maybe try that one?

if none of that works, you can send me the full-size image and i'll see if i can get a better result in photoshop if you like.

First of all, thank you so much for your response. I really appreciate it.

I actually have tried all of those things. Would you see? I don’t wanna have you do it because then if I need another one, I’m gonna try a couple of other things and see if anybody knows anything in Clip Studio. Did you look at the picture on my pet page Because there’s a lot of detailing the pictures of the pets, but I feel like mine has even less detailing on it.

I am also not super well-versed in terminology for digital art. I actually sketch in digital art and then make a copy of that on the paper and then I do revisions on paper then I take a photo of it revise it Clip Studio and then if it needs any more revision, I do it on paper again it’s kind of like I’m a caveman living in, I don’t know I’m confused .

Do pixels per thing matter GPI is that what it’s called is DPI the pixel image thingy I am oh my God I’m so sorry I sound so stupid.

sorry, i'm not sure what you mean by some pictures having more detailing than others. which images are you talking about?

is the artwork on that profile the one you want to use as a custom overlay? i was able to resize it alright; all i did was crop away the transparent pixels around the edges, resize the canvas to be square, and export at 200x200 pixels with bicubic sharper resampling.

is that about the same as it comes out when you do it in CSP, or does it look different? i think it's a pretty good result, but of course you do lose some clarity and detail. this isn't so much a problem with the resizing process, but rather a natural consequence of the decisions you made in designing and drawing the image.

by that i mean, the artwork looks great at a large scale, but it seems like it wasn't drawn with consideration for how it would look shrunken down. the lines are thin, so when you make the image smaller, they appear quite faint. and smaller details such as the eyes, tongue sticking out, leaves in the hair, spoon in the hand, and lines on the tail end up a little lost or difficult to read.

that's why drawing a pet overlay is sort of considered its own beast compared to just drawing pet art that's intended to be displayed at full size. you need to make different decisions in your design and drawing—bold lines, large readable features, strategic use of shading and highlighting to emphasize forms, and simplified / exaggerated details instead of lots of fine little nuance—to accomodate the needs of the smaller size the image will ultimately end up being.

to answer your last question, DPI/PPI is only relevant for printing, so it doesn't matter what you set it to if you only intend for the image to ever exist on a computer screen. that is to say, on a screen, one pixel will always be one pixel. but if you intend to print the image out, the amount of real life space that pixel takes up will vary depending on the DPI (e.g. 1000x1000 pixels at 100 pixels per inch = 10x10 inches, but 1000x1000 pixels at 200 pixels per inch = 5x5 inches).

thank you so much for helping me. I am considering redrawing it and keeping the larger one on his page for the time being. Thank you again for the help!!