Photoshop poor transformation quality (rotation and scale at once)

When smart object, or layer are transformed (rotation and scale) at once, that cause bad result. Unnecessary work around is rotate object first, then convert to another smart object and then scale it.

As far as I know with a SO the work-around should not make a difference (and in a quick test on my station it did not).
Edit: Sorry, I had read inattentively and missed that you converted the SO to a SO again – that does make a difference naturally.
You could change your Perferences > General > Image Interpolation setting.

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I have to rotate and scale an image, but i don't wont to deform it.
I'm thinking to something like 16/9 images on 4/3 screens (with two horizontal or vertical black lines around the scaled image)...
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Is it possible to rotate and scale an image with Grapchis2D at the same time?
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lets say the original image size is 200x200
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Duplicating a SymbolItem's Rotation and Scale "Properties" (Previous Transformations)

So, I have a script that runs through a document and replaces SymbolItem Objects with "new SymbolItem Objects of updated symbols."
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DVD playback is poor on quality Sony and Panasonic players-jagged horizontals are particularly noticeable. Top quality Verbatim DVD-R discs used. Ideas please?

I'm new to Mac and have not regretted the move from the "other side" until now. I produce many DVDs of slideshows and movies which are frequently shown at public venues or are given to friends and organisations so quality is very important. So far all attempts at producing a DVD free of "jaggies" and other artefacts have failed, the results not being acceptable even when viewed on 22 inch LCD TVs.
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Hi
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But You can get a better result by using iMovie HD6 or FinalCut any version as they can deliver intrelaced video over to iDVD (or Roxio Toast™ or DVD-Studio Pro) - this will not discard every second line as iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 does.
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Hello,
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Hi -
Here is the basic problem. I want to take a bufferedImage (read from a jpeg earlier on) and then rotate it according to an angle value (radians) and then resize it to fit within a specifically sized box. My code works fine, but... I have to do this in a loop up to 200 times. The process is often taking several minutes to complete. If this is simply a consequence of what I am trying to do, then I'll accept that, but surely I am just doing something wrong? Please help!
Thanks - here is the (working but very slow) code
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Your code worked okay in my system: busy at 200fps using 1.0f for alpha and
the x/y scale_factor values.
Here's another approach that isn't quite as busy.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;
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    BufferedImage image;
    int gridWidth = 100;
    int gridHeight = 100;
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        int imageH = image.getHeight();
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        // the rotation and scaling let's try to rotate, scale and
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        xTest = xt;
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                Thread.sleep(50);
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                animate = false;
                System.out.println("interrupt");
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        if(!animate)
            animate = true;
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