How to make my simple round sprite look right in XNA

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Published on 2012-10-25T06:17:03Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 11:16 UTC
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Ok, I'm very new to graphics programming (but not new to coding). I'm trying to load a simple image in XNA which I can do fine. It is a simple round circle which I made in photoshop. The problem is the edges show up rough when I draw it on the screen even with the exact size. The anti-aliasing is missing. I'm sure I'm missing something very simple:

        GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.Black);

        // TODO: Add your drawing code here
        spriteBatch.Begin();
        spriteBatch.Draw(circle, new Rectangle(10, 10, 10, 10), Color.White);           
        spriteBatch.End();

Couldn't post picture because I'm a first time poster. But my smooth png circle has rough edges. So I found that if I added:

spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.FrontToBack, BlendState.NonPremultiplied);

I can get a smooth image when the image is the same size as the original png. But if I want to scale that image up or down then the rough edges return. How do I get XNA to smoothly resize my simple round image to a smaller size without getting the rough edges?

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