Originally Posted by
Don Lacy
Downsizing an image will cause some lose of sharpness this can be corrected at the time of downsizing using the bicubic sharper method to downsize or you can correct it with output sharpening once you have the image ready my preferred method. Once you have the image sized saving it to the HD will not effect its sharpness. I think what Bobby is suggesting is to keep one master file of an image at its native size and with all your adjustments except sharpening, this way you can pull upthe master file size it and sharpen it to its desired output be it printing or web display.