Image Resizing in PS

[futureal33]

Hi all,

Getting a little confused by image resizing in Photoshop, and its benefits/drawbacks.

As an example, here is a typical work flow..

Take photo
Import to Lightroom 3.3
Perform PPing as appropriate and any Noise Reduction
Crop image as appropriate
Export image to Desktop with no sharpening/image size alterations

Open in Photoshop CS4

Perform final sharpen (I find PS sharpens better than LR)
Edit-image size, then depending on what crop I have used the image size could be anything, but generally I will bump it back upto the native resolution of my cam - 3888 x xxxx ( i cant remember the other dimension off the top of my head!) and then save...

Now to my eyes the quality doesnt deteoriate between when the image was at its cropped size vs when I increase the image size in PS.

I get quite a few prints done on A3 size, which is why I like to enlarge them prior to printing.

Does my workflow sound about right, or am I doing anything wrong with the image resizing?

Thanks

 

[Scarecrow]

If you're going to resize your images after cropping, why resize them to the native size that your camera produces?

Surely it would be better to resize them dependent on what your final use is going to be. If that's an A3 print, wouldn't it be better to resize for that specific requirement?

 

[lensflair]

I don't get what you are doing with the resize thing? If I do any resize for printing it would be to the print size at the res I want to print, but maybe thats what you are saying.

But I would leave any sharpening until after the image is resized if I am going to do that.

 

[swanseamale47]

I think theres some confusion as to whether your sizing twice or not and whether your sharpening for output? Ideally your final sharpen should be done at output/print size, resizing twice probably isn't a good idea as photoshops interpolating the image each time if your enlarging.