USM Difference

I just start using CS6 this past week after upgrading from as an Elements user for many many years.

I really don't have a question, just something I wanted to mention that I noticed, and if anyone has anything they like to add, I would love to hear it.

I use Unsharp Mask globally to sharpen my images for web use. I just prepared some of my images with CS6 for the first time using the same technique, and notcied my shots looked extremly oversharpened. I used USM with the same exact image in PS Elements 9 and it is looked so much better.

I know how to fix this, just lower the amount, and I know they are 2 different programs, but I thought they ran on the same engine, with Elements just missing alot of features.

Are you comparing the images at 100% view?

I solved my issue, my apologies for wasting anyones time, but thanks so much for trying to help me out.

It was not the USM at all.......It was my step I do right before sharpening for web. RESIZING!!

CS6 has ''Automatic Bicubic'' as the default option when I resize my images to 1024px long on the wide side. In Elements Standard ''Bicubic'' was my default option when reducing the size of my images. The ''Automatic'' does not work well at all.

They now look identical with either program.

Yeah. It uses Bicubic sharper if you downsize an image.
http://forums.adobe.co​m …d/984913?start=​0&tstart=0

I personally don't really like the new auto-resize which does Bi-smoother/sharper if you re-size. Selecting the "sharper" version almost always over-sharpens my images.
Also, why is that we're 13 Versions into Photoshop, and it still doesn't offer Lanzcos or Sinc filters that are superior to bicubic? They're open-source; so Adobe would't even have to pay royalties.

In order to avoid aliasing, or over-sharpening artifacts using bicubic resampling, it's actually beneficial to slightly blur the image before downsizing. For a 4x downsize (say, 4000x3000 -> 2000x1500) you can use a 1px gaussian blur, higher radius if the difference is greater.