oops, sorry this one's later than the other, it got rejected by the server again for inclusion of the word s*bject in the opening line Re: Resizing images in Photoshop : At 01:02 AM 2/20/2006, Roger Eichhorn wrote: : : >According to Scott Kelby, in PS CS (re: ISBN 0-7357-1411-8), in : >"downsizing" an image, one should turn off the "resample image" : >option in the Image Size dialog box. : : Scott Kelby has some really impressive credits so I must be missing : something here. : : Could one of the Pro PhotoShop list members explain why one would : want to down size an image without re sampling? As far as I know : Adobe PS/Elements are the only popular image editors that provide an : resample option when down sizing. have a look here Dave, some examples of resizing and resampling down from 1100 pixels to 500 using various techniques http://tinyurl.com/ofsq3 knocked it up quickly but it's self explanatory k