[Image-SIG] How to improve rotation quality?

[Christopher Barker]

Alec Bennett wrote:
>  > So I tried adding a black background to the image first, then 
> rotating it -- much better.
>  > See the enclosed version of your test code, and a rotated image.
> 
> Wow, what a difference! Even if the border is a single pixel, much 
> better results. I set the border color to grey, which seems to work as 
> well as black, and am now a happy slideshow maker.

Ideally, you should use whatever color is going to be in the background 
when you show the image.

Even better would be if you could blend it with a transparent 
background, and show it that way, but that would require an alpha 
channel, and I don't think jpeg supports that.

Glad it worked for you,

-Chris

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