I'm trying to figure out why full size photos viewed at 25% or 50% in PS look so much sharper than photos resized what would approximate that size on screen later (sorry if that's unclear, but let's say you're viewing a raw file at 25% taking up x amount of real estate on my display, then resizing the photo to take up the same amount of screen real estate at 100%). I look at photos on sites like olafphotoblog.com or fujivsfuji.com and see how sharp they look resized to 1500px on the long edge and when I do it with my photos they lose so much sharpness and still don't look as good as those sites even with a second round of sharpening post resize. I've resized using Image Size in PS (using Bicubic Sharper, turns out OK), Save for Web in PS (looks like piss, usually), and using export in LR playing with DPI (I know this shouldn't matter for screen display, but I tried anyway), but they still suffer quite a bit in the resize. So far my best results are with LR exporting with sharpening for screen which is pretty close but not quite to the quality I'm seeing on those sites I referenced. What am I doing wrong?
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