Best resizing tool?

Hi, everyone!

In my first tread here I want to get some advices about what is the best tool for resizing images. I had no luck in trying to find a similar topic here, so let me know if one exists.

As far as I’m a web/graphic designer/developer, I use mainly Photoshop and Illustrator. But let’s say you have a 300×300px raster (i.e. logo) and you want to shrink it down to 50×50px.

I don’t like Photoshop’s algorithms for resizing – even with the Bicubic Sharper resampling it gets blurry. So, what would you use in this situation?

I use photoshop and then sharpen it via unsharp mask or smart sharpen if needed… but if you want pixel perfect-ness in terms of icons and logos I think you need to go in an make manual edits… ie, removing unnecessary pieces and erasing blur marks.

This might be helpful: Minimization process

IrfanVew?

I use photoshop and then sharpen it via unsharp mask or smart sharpen if needed… but if you want pixel perfect-ness in terms of icons and logos I think you need to go in an make manual edits… ie, removing unnecessary pieces and erasing blur marks. This might be helpful: Minimization process

Yes, I’m talking exactly about “pixel perfect-ness in terms of icons and logos”, thank you very much for your reply.

IrfanVew?

This is why icons and logos are often made in a vector format. Resizing without quality loss

This is why icons and logos are often made in a vector format. Resizing without quality loss

Actually vector drawings perform worse in some cases, when talking about tiny sizes – because of the anti-aliasing. But you’re right.