> It is unfortunate that for years and several versions, Cerious has not addressed this basic issue and function of a photo tool.
Well, you keep saying that there is an issue, but you never demonstrate it. Each time that you or someone else posts a sample, I show how TP actually does a very good job if only you use it correctly. Then things get quiet for a year or so, and then the complaining starts all over.
Anyway, your problem used to be that TP created fuzzy results, and today the problem is that they are grainy. I hope you realize that grainy is the opposite of fuzzy.
> So the problem remains, I ran in to it this weekend again, working with various photos and needing to resize down about 1/4 the size and it was clearly grainy.
Well, without a sample, I can't offer any useful comments. If the original image is very large, you could just crop out a representative section and post that, along with a resized version that you feel is unsatisfying. Hopefully there is a simple solution to the graininess.
Again, there is no single resizing process that will yield the best results for all images. In my own use, with regular photographic images targeted for use on the web, the 'Downsample' resize-algorithm followed by the 'Unsharp Mask' filter works very well nearly all the time. With some images, I use the 'Sharpen' or 'Sharpen Less' filter (which use a wider diameter) before I apply Unsharp Mask. When I have to process a lot of images from a single shoot, I make a simple batch process that resizes and sharpens hundreds of images in a few minutes. I have a fairly critical eye when it comes to photos, but in my 25 years of using TP, I've honestly never felt that TP has an issue here.