Scaling an image usually deteriorates the image quality somewhat. In four sentences or less, explain why in terms of what happens to the pixels by scaling up and scaling down.

What will be an ideal response?


Scaling up adds new pixels by interpolating the color information of the existing pixels only and the resulting image will appear blurry, scaling down removes pixels and thus loses images information. The color information remaining pixels altered to fit the new size.

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