Does PIL use a linear colorspace for downscaling? I coudn't find it in their documentation. My intuition says that your sample image would look much better if i

Does PIL use a linear colorspace for downscaling? I coudn't find it in their documentation. My intuition says that your sample image would look much better if it was downscaled in a linear colorspace, especially because of the thin bright lines disappear in the legofied image. I recommend imageworsener for downscaling, its homepage links to many good articles about this topic too. AFAIK imagemagick can be tamed to use linear colorspace for downscaling, but it doesn't do it by default. http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/ http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/