Opinion from sharpening experts

FrankParis wrote:

I've been using Photoshop Elements to sharpen E-M5 photos reduced from unsharpened full size images to 1024x768, using three techniques:

1. "Image>Resize>Image Size" with "Bicubic Sharper (best for reduction)"

2. "Enhance>Adjust Sharpness: from (1) with Amount=25%, Radius=0.5, Remove=Gaussian Blur, More Refined = unchecked.

3. "Enhance>Auto Sharpen" from (1).

These were all taken with the LP 25mm at f/5.6.



Technique 3

Technique 1

Technique 2

To my eyes (3) looks way oversharpened, (1) looks okay, and I'm not sure about (2). What do you think?

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Frank Paris