: Shrinking down a smart object causes drastic sharpening When I have a large smart object, and then shrink it down, I often get some extreme sharpening. And while I understand that shrinking

@Cooney243

You have different types of interpolation for resize. The thing to know is photoshop, for non smart objects also use a default interpolation (Bicubic), but different as the smart object one (Bicubic automatic).

The only thing you have to do is to go to :
Edit > Preferences > General > Image Interpolation and select "Bilinear (best for smooth gradients)". You will have exactly the same result as a non smart object once resized.

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@Si6392903

Actually you CAN reduce sharpening of scaled down smart objects. It's a bit tricky though. You have to change interpolation method. Go to Edit > Preferences > General and change Image Interpolation as desired. Than select your smart object and hit Ctrl + T (for Windows), than without any transformations hit Enter to apply. Your object will stay intact, only its interpolation method will change (refresh). So to make it not so crispy sharp change interpolation to Bicubic or even to Bicubic Smoother.

Note that this trick works only for one smart object at a time, if you select multiple smart objects and transform them all together they don't refresh (interpolation wise), so you have to transform multiple smart objects one by one.

Cheers.

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@Ogunnowo857

The problem is:
Bicubic resampling.

I think you need nearest neighbor resampling
(In the save for the web window you can select it under "Quality")
For more information: www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/resizing-resampling-photoshop.html
Update:
For smart objects there is no resampling option :( : forums.adobe.com/thread/1026169

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