Does Photoshop CS6 autosharpen resized images?

Question

Hi all,
I've been using Photoshop for my Photography for quite a long time and I have recently upgraded to Photoshop CS6. Whenever I resize my images in CS6, I get the feel (from looking at the images) that the application has autosharpened my images! I am quite sure about that effect because my resizing principles have remained the same since using CS5. And in CS5, whenever I resized to that same size I am resizing in CS6, I used to run the Unsharp Mask Filter to get my images look at their best! So there must be something going under the hood in CS6, or am I missing something obvious? Basically, I want to be in total control as to how much sharpness I want to apply to my resized images!!
regards,
Ali

Answer 1

In fact Adobe added the new interpolation method Bicubic Automatic new in CS6  and Adobe change Adobe's default Photoshop's Interpolation preference setting to the new method.  However Adobe did not do a good job adding the new feature.  If you leave Photoshop Preference set to Bicubic Automatic you may run into problems if you use scripts that transform things. For if the script tries to retrieve,  change and restore your Photoshop Interpolation method Photoshop will wind up with an internal error.    There are many bugs in CS6 this is one Adobe has not address yet.
Bicubic Sharper may work well on large un-sharpened soft images.  It does not work well on images that have been sharpened.
Adobe scripts like the Fit Image Plug-in always uses Bicubic interpolation.   Layer Transforms prior to CS6 always used Photoshop Preference Interpolation method.  That is why the script I write retrieve this setting change it to Bicubic ,  transform then restore the Preference.   CS6 now let the user set the interpolation method for some forms of layer transforms not all.