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Lee.

I'm using PS7, so I don't have these options, but I think you have it back to front. When you down sample the image will appear sharper because your discarding pixels...ie: every four pixels of blurred edges would reduce to two pixels if the image was down sampled by 50%...hence you may want to use smoother. The opposite is true for upsampling, which is why sharpening is required.

Personally, I would just use the standard Bicubic and sharpen after resampling. It's rare that I would want to soften an image , but if I was down sampling considerably, for say, web display, smoother would be a consideration, or just soften the image prior to down sampling.

Sark