Photoshop CC - Image scaling issue

One of my team members is running latest of Ps CC on a Windows PC, and every time she needs to scale down an image it pixelates, is this a known problem? Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thank you for finally clarifying, azcreativ!
I hadn't even realized that your screen shots were actually your before-and-after images of your image. First because I saw no pixellation anywhere, as I still don´t see any such pixellation in your images at all.
Sure, your re-sized image looks like cr@p, but that's because of massive blurriness and plain image deterioration from the indiscriminate Ctrl+T manhandling/resizing.
For what true pixellation looks like, check out the right-hand side owl in my screenshot in #5 above.
My interpretation of your screen shots was that you were attempting to show some.
Free Transform (Ctrl+T) is NOT REMOTELY "the same as " the Image Size" menu item looks like or does, unless you know exactly what options to choose, which I suspect your coworker does not. She's probably dragging the selection corners immediately, rather than setting the appropriate parameters, otherwise you would have mentioned that—my aplogies if I just missed that information.
Just look at the alternatives there:
That's where the boggling of the mind comes in upon learning you were instead using Free Transform.
Now considering the screen shot you are resizing, especially if you save your screen shots as JPEGs. You are starting out with a low-res image at the ppi resolution of your/her monitor (provided the image was being displayed at 100), probably the lowly, outdated 72ppi standards, 100% at best if that's what your/her monitor resolution is.
Then you bring out the Ctrl+T shortcut brute and you proceed to mangle your image! What can you expect?
Try to see if she can start out by displaying the dialog boxes to be captured at 100%, then re-sizing using the Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges) option.
Also keep in mind that down-sampling by 50%, 25% and 12% gives you the least objectionable.
Good luck!

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   Lens Blur 14.2.1
   Lens Correction 14.2.1
   Lens Flare 14.2.1
   Liquify 14.2.1
   Matlab Operation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Maximum 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Mean 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Measurement Core 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Median 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Mezzotint 14.2.1
   Minimum 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   MMXCore Routines 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Mosaic Tiles 14.2.1
   Multiprocessor Support 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Neon Glow 14.2.1
   Note Paper 14.2.1
   NTSC Colors 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Ocean Ripple 14.2.1
   Oil Paint 14.2.1
   OpenEXR 14.2.1
   Paint Daubs 14.2.1
   Palette Knife 14.2.1
   Patchwork 14.2.1
   Paths to Illustrator 14.2.1
   PCX 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Photocopy 14.2.1
   Photoshop 3D Engine 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Photoshop Touch 14.0
   Picture Package Filter 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Pinch 14.2.1
   Pixar 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Plaster 14.2.1
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   PNG 14.2.1
   Pointillize 14.2.1
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   Radial Blur 14.2.1
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   Read Watermark 4.0
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   Ripple 14.2.1
   Rough Pastels 14.2.1
   Save for Web 14.2.1
   ScriptingSupport 14.2.1
   Shake Reduction 14.2.1
   Shear 14.2.1
   Skewness 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
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   Standard Deviation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   STL 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Sumi-e 14.2.1
   Summation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Targa 14.2.1
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   Tiles 14.2.1
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   Twirl 14.2.1
   Underpainting 14.2.1
   Vanishing Point 14.2.1
   Variance 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Variations 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
   Viveza 2 2.1.11.216
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   Wave 14.2.1
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   Wind 14.2.1
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   Silver Efex Pro 2 2.2.11.216
   SkinFilter 2.2.11.216
   SkyFilter 2.2.11.216
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Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
Flash:
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   Mini Bridge
   Kuler
   Adobe Exchange
Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

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When I first built the system it had no raid0 at all - just a single 'Raptor I had hoped to use for the Project drive, but PremPro wouldn't play nicely with that, so I had to add another and raid0 them. I could scrub the timline smoothly after that with as many tracks on the timeline as I needed, (all 1080 H.264) I lost one of those Velociraptors, so replaced with a pair of 6th gen 1Tb V'raptors in raid0. They give me 350Mbs continuous, but their 4k speed is still not special.
I also have a pair of WD1Tb Blacks in a raid0 for Exports, my docs, and I used to keep cache, and other large files on that drive before I upgraded the boot drive.
Altogether I have 18Tb because of the need to back up the video, which is done with USB3 externals. I recently added a Seagate 4Tb USB3 external (to help organise files while reinstalling everything) and that is showing 185Mb/s sequentual, which is much faster than my single drive internals! I guess they just keep making things better.

Image quality issues in PS - word to PDF

Hi,
I am having major image quality issues when trying to make my word document a clean, clear PDF. Images become distorted. Borders for tables and text that are equal px size look like they are different sizes throughout the document.
I have searched the internet, read help, and tried many different things:
Word 2007 - Changed image %, image size, export options, adjusted px for borders, used different styles
Acrobat 9 Pro - Changed import settings, import options, print options, tried press quality, high quality, etc.
Photoshop CS4 - Changed ppx, file format, compression options
What can I do to get a clean, clear PDF file with the images and borders preserved?
Thank you.

In converting a MS Office file to PDF, Photoshop cannot help in any way and will likely cause more harm as it may rasterize vector data. Expect your ideal answer in the Acrobat forum.

Graphics scaling issues in Flash Builder 4.5.1

Please review this screen shot. Details follow the image.
FB 4.5.1
applicationDPI = "160"
Graphics using MultiDPIBitmapSource scale fairly well.
Graphics used for these properties do not scale well at all:
1) ViewMenuItem's "icon" property.
2) List itemRenderer IconItemRenderer "decorator" property.
3) TabbedViewNavigatorApplication's "splashScreenImage" property.
These graphics assets end up with horrible scaling artifacts, making them unusable. So, I cannot use icons with Menus or Lists or a splash image.
I've reviewed all of Adobe's documentation and followed all of their recommendations for creating graphics assets for use in a mobile applications. Simple graphics with no curved lines or angles less than 90 degrees scale well. Anything else does not.
Attached is a screen shot comparing the scaling issues at 160, 240 and 320 dpi with applicationDPI = "160". It is using an FXG graphic created in Illustrator CS5.5.
The FXG graphic was embedded in the s:IconItemRenderer like this: decorator = "{images.arrow_list_icon}".
For testing purposes, I also tried switching the decorator at runtime based on the applicationDPI, but of course this fails as the application still scales the graphic whenever the application's applicationDPI property is specified.
<s:List>
<s:itemRenderer>
<fx:Component>
<s:IconItemRenderer
decorator = "{chooseDecorator()}"
<fx:Script>
//This code selects a different FXG asset based on the DPI reported at runtime.
import images.arrow_list_icon160;
import images.arrow_list_icon240;
import images.arrow_list_icon320;
import mx.core.FlexGlobals;
protected function chooseDecorator():Class {
    var rtnVal:Class;
    switch (FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.runtimeDPI) {
        case mx.core.DPIClassification.DPI_160:
            rtnVal=images.arrow_list_icon160;
            break;
        case mx.core.DPIClassification.DPI_240:
            rtnVal=images.arrow_list_icon240;
            break;
        case mx.core.DPIClassification.DPI_320:
            rtnVal=images.arrow_list_icon320;
            break;
    return rtnVal;
</fx:Script>
Has anyone come up with methods which can be used to avoid scaling issues with these items when setting the applicationDPI property?

Chances are that you'll get better answers for this question on the Flex general discussion forum. This forum is visited more by engineers on the tooling team while the latter has people from the Flex SDK team.
-Anirudh

LR 3.6 Export to Photoshop CS5 - Images have massive problems.

Windows 7 x64
Lightroom 3.6
Photoshop CS5
When I use the Export to Photoshop feature (or if I export to PSD or export to TIFF and then open in Photoshop), the images look like this:
When the original in Lighroom looks like this:
If I zoom in to 100% the weird artifacting/tearing goes away, but if I zoom out any more than 66%, it gets these weird malformations on the image. I cannot figure out why. It's not the image size since I've worked with 100+ meg PSD files in Photoshop before without this issue. If I export to JPG from LR and then open in Photoshop, it's fine. It just happens with TIFF or PSD. Driving me nuts.
Anybody have any idea why?
Thank you all so much.
Patrick

That's a typical video card driver problem affecting Photoshop. Update the driver from the manufacturer's site (NVidia or ATI).

Image Quality issue with script

So I recently wrote a simple script to output an image at a bunch of different resolutions. However, I am running into an image quality issue that I don't run into when I do the same thing manually.
Here is an example image showcasing the image: http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/notworking.jpg
As you can see along the top of the model's forhead there is destinct color fragmentation. Which seems very strange.
Here is the script, it is pretty simple, it asks for a few simple config options. (the above image was created using default settings). It then figures out the correct ratios and loops through doing each resize, saving the image, then reverting the history so each iteration uses the original image data and not the resized version:
doc = app.activeDocument;
openFilePath = Folder.selectDialog ("Where do you want the images to be saved?");
maxSize = Number(prompt("What would you like to be the maximum length of the long edge? (Image is never upsized) (pixels)", 2800));
minSize = Number(prompt("What would you like to be the minimum length of the long edge? (pixels)", 100));
gap = Number(prompt("How much smaller should each image be? (pixels)", 100));
quality = Number(prompt("What quality would you like the JPG exported as (0-12)", 10));
var size;
var primary;
var secondary;
if(doc.width > doc.height){
          primary = doc.width;
          secondary = doc.height;
}else{
          primary = doc.height;
          secondary = doc.width;
var ratio = secondary/primary;
var size = [];
for(var i = maxSize;i>minSize;i-=gap){
          var p = i
          var s = i * ratio;
          size.push([p,s]);
var w;
var h;
var n;
for(var i in size){
          if(doc.width > doc.height){
                    w = n = size[i][0];
                    h = size[i][1];
          }else{
                    w = size[i][1];
                    n= h = size[i][0];
          if(doc.width >= w && doc.height >= h){
                    doc.resizeImage(w,h,null,ResampleMethod.BICUBICSHARPER);
                    jpgFile = new File(openFilePath+"/"+n+".jpeg" )
                    jpgSaveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions()
                    jpgSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = false
                    jpgSaveOptions.formatOptions =
                    FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE
                    jpgSaveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE
                    jpgSaveOptions.quality = quality
                    app.activeDocument.saveAs(jpgFile, jpgSaveOptions, true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
                    doc.activeHistoryState = doc.historyStates[doc.historyStates.length-2];
In comparison, here is an example of an image of the exact same resolution that does not exhibit this issue at all:
The steps taken to save this image were as follows: http://photography.terminalvelocity.ca/content/images/2012/avery_konrad_6/horizontal/1500. jpg
Image > Resize > Bicubic Sharper (1500px);
Save For Web
     Jpeg
     Quality 75
     Optimzed: true
     Progressive: false
     Blur: 0
     Convert to sRGB: true
Anyway, as you can see, The manually exported image does not have any of the quality issues that are present within the scripted image. I am pretty new to photoshop scriping so am assuming it has something to do with me missing some sort of option in the save settings. Any help would be swell.
Also note, this doesn't occur on all images, I usually don't see an issue when using the script, however, something about the tones of this particular photo make it really obvious.
I am using the latest version of Photoshop CS6 (creative cloud) on Max OSX
thanks so much!

I'm on windows find the bicubicsharper does not work well it the image being resized has been highly sharpened all ready. Because of my Photoshop preferences I had to make minor modification to your script. I'm also a bit colorblind so i don't see many color issues so I include a screen capture if what windows does with your image and script.
var orig_ruler_units = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;          // Set the ruler units to PIXELS
doc = app.activeDocument;
openFilePath = Folder.selectDialog ("Where do you want the images to be saved?");
maxSize = Number(prompt("What would you like to be the maximum length of the long edge? (Image is never upsized) (pixels)", 2800));
minSize = Number(prompt("What would you like to be the minimum length of the long edge? (pixels)", 100));
gap = Number(prompt("How much smaller should each image be? (pixels)", 100));
quality = Number(prompt("What quality would you like the JPG exported as (0-12)", 10));
var size;
var primary;
var secondary;
if(doc.width > doc.height){
          primary = doc.width;
          secondary = doc.height;
}else{
          primary = doc.height;
          secondary = doc.width;
var ratio = secondary/primary;
var size = [];
for(var i = maxSize;i>minSize;i-=gap){
          var p = i
          var s = i * ratio;
          size.push([p,s]);
var w;
var h;
var n;
for(var i in size){
          if(doc.width > doc.height){
                    w = n = size[i][0];
                    h = size[i][1];
          }else{
                    w = size[i][1];
                    n= h = size[i][0];
          if(doc.width.value >= w && doc.height.value >= h){
                    doc.resizeImage(w,h,null,ResampleMethod.BICUBICSHARPER);
                    jpgFile = new File(openFilePath+"/"+n+".jpeg" )
                    jpgSaveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions()
                    jpgSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = false
                    jpgSaveOptions.formatOptions =
                    FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE
                    jpgSaveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE
                    jpgSaveOptions.quality = quality
                    app.activeDocument.saveAs(jpgFile, jpgSaveOptions, true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
                    doc.activeHistoryState = doc.historyStates[doc.historyStates.length-2];
app.preferences.rulerUnits = orig_ruler_units;          // Reset units to original settings

Just tried to trial the Adobe Photoshop CS6 as having issues trying to use disks...

Downloaded fine but no matter what version I try downloading I seem to get message setup.xml could not be loaded. File corrupt? Help please am no techie and been on it all morning using vista home basic service pack 2 if it helps? Thanks.

Will give the link a go, thankyou...
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:15:06 -0700
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Subject: Just tried to trial the Adobe Photoshop CS6 as having issues trying to use disks...
    Re: Just tried to trial the Adobe Photoshop CS6 as having issues trying to use disks...
    created by Jeff A Wright in Trial Download & Install FAQ - View the full discussion
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Classic tween scaling issue

I have two jpeg images that are converted to movie clip symbols. When attempting to scale one from zero out to infinity (zoom out look), I apply the classic tween and the image zooms out above the top of my document window instead of going straight out. Is there something I can troubleshoot to fix this? I belive the registration point on the symbol is in the center, but how can I confirm?

Hey, the best bet would be what the above poster said, click on your symbol and push Q to select the Free Transform tool and change the registration point to fit in the center. If you're having any scaling issues using tweens I'd just remove the tween and try again, I find tweening always buggy.
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