# Avoid blurred image after import?

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-blurred-image-after-import/10676>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** image-processing, import-and-export, computational-notebooks\
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-blurred-image-after-import/10676 "2017-06-10T13:37:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![alessandrothesmall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@alessandrothesmall](https://community.wolfram.com/u/alessandrothesmall)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-blurred-image-after-import/10676/1 "2017-06-10T13:37:30Z")

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I use Import[] to import an image and ImageResize[] to resize it:

```
ImageResize[Import["figure.jpg"],{400,300}]

```

If I use that in a new notebook, I obtain what I want;

if I use it in the notebook that I am writing, the image is blurry and in low quality.

Why?

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**Author:** ![seanc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/wolfram/user_avatar/community.wolfram.com/seanc/32/34005_2.png) [@seanc](https://community.wolfram.com/u/seanc)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-blurred-image-after-import/10676/2 "2017-06-12T14:47:19Z")

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It’s hard to know what might be special about the notebook where this doesn’t work. What kind of notebook is it? Do you see the problem if you restart Mathematica?