How can I resize a picture from 100% to 80% without distortion?

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That one, I want it resized to 80% (to 1280 pixel width)

When I try it in a couple programs it looks awful and ugly...and with a picture like that, it is unacceptable.

How may I achieve this as a glorious sexy desktop picture that fits perfectly?
 
Photoshop and Corel Photopaint have always worked for me. Maybe you have anti-aliasing turned off?

Use anti-aliasing, then use Unsharp mask (typically at 60% and with a 0.5 or 1.0 pixel width for this size of picture) to restore some sharpness.
 
Technically you cannot drop 20% without having a little distortion, but photoshop works well.
 
Thanks, Casio for doing a picture for me!

And thanks everyone else for their good answers.
 
Yup just use photoshop, or you could use windows fax viewer, set it to 80% take a screen dump and paste as a new image but I doubt the quality would be as good.

Robin
 
Use MSPaint and stretch and skew tool, then set both numbers at 80%. Works PERFECTLY.

You don't ALWAYS need to open photoshop to edit photos...
 
Use MSPaint and stretch and skew tool, then set both numbers at 80%. Works PERFECTLY.

You don't ALWAYS need to open photoshop to edit photos...

Huh... What was that last part?? I don't follow...

Blastphemy
 

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