Hey HEE artists, I need some help!

I'm playing around with some art again after a long hiatus, but I've pretty much forgotten how I did everything!
I'm currently struggling with making "cuts" of my images and downsizing them to HEE proportions. How's everyone doing this?

I did my peice on a 1000 x 1500 canvas, because that's what I used to do, and then I'm trying to cut it down to horse Avis and a stable banner but the quality is taking a serious hit.
Do I go straight from the large size to 500x500?

Oh and I'm using Ibis on an iPad! I do have the ability to send the original peice to my laptop to size down if that's easier, but I'd prefer if it's kept to the iPad.

Thanks in advance!!!

I just got back to art and have been struggling with this too!! I found I needed to make the overall canvas size smaller :( my best results were using resizing websites to crop the image itself to 500x500, and if that was too small to fit the horse, then I'd crop it down some and then use a resizer to get to 500x500. Using a compressor kills quality the most in my opinion, so before using one, I tried converting the PNG to a JPG and seeing if it brought the kb size down enough that HEE accepted it. I was thinking of posting on here too, hopefully the more prolific artists will chime in :)

I use Vera's method with image compression. So my main files are 5000x3500 pixels which I then export out then import onto a new 500x500 canvas. I find the export/import method to be best for me because it retains quality and doesn't mess with your original file.

*edited to add: I would stay away from resizing websites because some will put your images through AI and steal from you essentially. Try to resize through the app you make art on.

I just work on 2500x2000 canvas, do everything. export, resize through my art app to desired sizes, and use an online image compressor for the horse avi.

I do also tend to use the sharpening tool on my art on a 500x500 canvas if it loses a bit of detail.

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I too use ibis. and not had any quality issues this way.

Cropping: In the art app, I duplicate my canvas, set the aspect ratio to 669x150, lock it, and then make it larger to crop the desired area.

Resizing: I use picresize for free (lots of popups but best quality)

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I've tried resizing on Procreate, but my images end up being quite pixelated. I've duplicated the canvas and then resized that, and I've also imported the image into the desired canvas size with no luck. I'll give an example of what I do for a banner. What I do is I have my main canvas size (2000x1500), and then I duplicate the canvas and crop it to (669x150), and then I'll lock the aspect ratio and make it smaller/larger if needed. I then use Picresize to resize to 699x150. Istg I've tried every site, and that one gives the best quality. As for AI stealing my art, it's shitty, but I don't really have a better way to resize. Pretty sure when I upload these to DA and insta, it steals it anyways, so not much I can do.

I use a 5000x3500 and just go straight into a correctly sized canvas and import it <3