Lightroom was actually worse than Photoshop which really surprised me as I expected it would be the same as Bicubic Automatic. Lightroom (top) & Perfect Resize 7.5 (bottom) Now you don’t really even need to click on the photo to tell that Perfect Resize won this battle hands down. It also provides an apples to apples comparison since Adobe doesn’t do any sharpening after resizing either. The reason why I turned off sharpening is because I knew that this would be used on the web so the extra sharpening required to make a print look its best makes online images look way over sharpened. On the bottom was the Epson Resin Coated 16x24 preset with sharpening turned OFF. Photoshop CS6 (top) & Perfect Resize 7.5 (bottom) The best choice was Bicubic Smoother which seemed to match what Bicubic Automatic had done. For the naysayers, yes I did try Bicubic Sharper and Bicubic Smoother as well as the other modes. The resize on the top was done in Photoshop CS6 with 16x24” 360 ppi (8640x5760) using Bicubic Automatic. I did some minor edits using Perfect Effects and then I resized it. Perfect Effects 7.5 vs Photoshop CS6įor this test, I took an image that I had exported out of Lightroom at 1800x1200 pixels. This was a recommendation in my Printing 101 eBook, and it still remains a product that I use regularly when printing. However, it’s funny when I talk to people about resizing images because they immediately wonder why I don’t just use Photoshop or Lightroom? One product that I use often, but don’t talk much about on the blog is onOne Software’s Perfect Resize.