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Or maybe I'll use another program for resizing screenshots for windows. Thanks anyways.

uh no! sharpen adds strange artifacts. e.g. it adds light around letters. The result looks awful.

Sure. Attached is the examples. I'm not sure if this is the best example, but it indicates the problem. All paint.net resizes are from 419 to 390 horizontal (keeping aspect ratio), using various filters. I think there's no question that the pshop image is by far sharper than the paint.net resizes. There might be other examples I could give you if this ain't enough. Notice that all resizes from paint.net gives shadows/smoothing on some of the letters in fonts, whilst photoshop resize seem to detect this and gives a sharper result. examples.zip

Hi, we use Paint.Net to some extent, and I try install Paint.Net to all my users. I like it a lot. Just one thing, could you see if you can work on the smoothing/resizing on bitmaps? E.g. if I take a screenshot of a normal Windows program, and then I try resize it, then it often becomes far too smoothed. I've tried experimenting with the different resamplings but I cannot find a resampling that compares to the quality of "an expensive competitor product" So, I wonder if it's possible to look into this? Maybe add a separate resampling that works best for bitmaps like screenshots of windows and menus?