Imagemagick scale and image quality

2012-09-08

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Question

I'm scaling an image down to 50% of its ratio with the convert command and -scale parameter. The generated image quality is pretty bad. Is there any extra option i can use to get a better result ?

Answer

Using -sharpen 0x1.2 with -resize x% with -quality 95 produces good results for me.