Sharpness when resizing images w/ text

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Schraalhans Keukenmeester
Feb 25, 2005
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For my weblog I (have to) resize my images to a width of 450 px to prevent the blog-software from autoresizing them in a rather coarse and ugly fashion. When the item to be resized is a screencap containing text I am not particularly keen on how the text looks after the job. (see http://eniac.xs4all.nl/images/blog/sp2update.gif for an example)

I tried the different resizing options (neairest neighbour, bilinear, bicubic, smoother and sharper) but none of these deliver very satisfactory results.

Is there perhaps a way to improve the result within or outside of Photoshop CS I just don’t know of ? Different algoritms ?

TIA
SH

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M
mitch
Feb 26, 2005
A suggestion. Try bicubic resizing in steps say 95%. Use very small radius USM (.4-.5 px) once or twice at each step.

Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:
For my weblog I (have to) resize my images to a width of 450 px to prevent the blog-software from autoresizing them in a rather coarse and ugly fashion. When the item to be resized is a screencap containing text I am not particularly keen on how the text looks after the job. (see http://eniac.xs4all.nl/images/blog/sp2update.gif for an example)
I tried the different resizing options (neairest neighbour, bilinear, bicubic, smoother and sharper) but none of these deliver very satisfactory results.

Is there perhaps a way to improve the result within or outside of Photoshop CS I just don’t know of ? Different algoritms ?
TIA
SH

How to Improve Photoshop Performance

Learn how to optimize Photoshop for maximum speed, troubleshoot common issues, and keep your projects organized so that you can work faster than ever before!

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