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TeeKayCC
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November 19, 2013
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P: Ability to choose a Smart Object's interpolation method [2013]

  • November 19, 2013
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In Photoshop CC, I think there should be a way to choose the interpolation method (Bicubic/Bilinear/etc) for Smart Objects.

When transforming a Smart Object, the Interpolation dropdown that's there for other raster transforms should be in that Options bar.

Smart Objects are far less useful when I don't have control of this interpolation, and I find myself avoiding Smart Objects because of this issue. I find that my smart objects look overly sharpened when I downscale them.

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    Harzem5FCB
    Participant
    November 27, 2022

    Desperately need this as well. I'm a web designer, and some icons need to use bilinear (no overshoot on edges) while some pictures need bicubic with sharpened edges. I can't compose them on the same document as smart objects.

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      Domsy
      Participant
      August 21, 2022

      9 years later and this still hasn't been implemented. How can something so simple and necessary not be a thing???

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        Christopher25447532htrs
        Participant
        July 29, 2022

        It is now 2022; 9 years have gone by, and the world is now a very different place. The OP stated an undeniable truth; nonetheless, 9 Photoshop versions later, Adobe still has not acknowledged this truth.

        The interpolation-method of the selected Smart Object should be directly adjustable, because that's what makes sense; it should not merely be indirectly adjustable, by way of modifying an application-wide setting, because that does not make sense. Adobe, please fix this.

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          stylish_motivation6C2B
          Participating Frequently
          December 7, 2021

          Please add this, having this in the preferences makes no sense for smart object reisizing!

            Earth Oliver
            Earth Oliver
            Legend
            May 21, 2020
            unfortunately, there are now even a few bugs with SO interpolation...
            - select an SO which has a layer mask and hit cmd-t: you'll see interpolation in the option, but it has no effect on the SO. 
            - select two layers which are each SOs and cmd-t: same issue as above.
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              FeedbackCommunityMember
              Inspiring
              May 21, 2020
              I cannot believe the original post is from seven years ago and we still don't have that feature.
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                FeedbackCommunityMember
                Inspiring
                May 15, 2019
                100% this. It's crazy that you can get an image just right but it will ruin it just by opening it again (or someone else working on your file). Having to go into Prefs every time you you open a file depending on what file you worked on last in a huge pain.
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                  Lee James
                  Known Participant
                  March 25, 2019
                  I want this too as I do a lot of work with pixel art.

                  Adobe keep adding all kinds of gimmicky new features to Photoshop, but this is a genuinely useful feature that lots of people would find helpful. It would also be extremely easy to implement.
                    Earth Oliver
                    Earth Oliver
                    Legend
                    January 20, 2019
                    Jaroslav, trust me, i'm all too aware of this limitation. It's beyond ridiculous that we can't assign a per SO interpolation setting and it's been needed for as long as SO's have been in Ps.
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                      FeedbackCommunityMember
                      Inspiring
                      January 19, 2019
                      eartho: you can but this won't work on per layer basis properly. Because once you move or transform layer then interpolation method from settings is used. Not currently used method for this layer.
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