Hi, I hope someone can advise me. Apologies if this has been covered before. I am wondering what is seen as the correct way to resize a photo down to 1024. I'm currently using a combination of DPP and photoshop Elements 10 and I'm getting on well with this combination, but I do seem to lose quality when I resize the image down to 1024 pixels wide. Is it correctly to resize in pixels and resample the image or is there a better way and keep the quality I'm looking for. When I view the image in DPP at 50% the image looks tack sharp, but after a bit more processing and resize the image quality falls off slightly.
I would be very interested to learn from the experts here the best techniques I should be using.
I am certainly no expert, but if you have the Fit Image function in Photoshop Elements (it is under the Automate Tab in full PS) then this is the simplest way to resize for posting here.
Hello Simon,
I don't have/use elements, so I can't comment on that software. But generally, any interpolated resampling will lose pixel-to-pixel sharpness. So after resampling recover apparent sharpness with tools like unsharp mask or smart sharpen. On a sharp image, something like radius ~ 0.4 and amount ~ 60 to 100 usually does well with unsharp mask.
Correct way to resize a photo
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