>>4374408I mean, when you resize smaller you're technically losing detail, but so long as you view that downsized image at an appropriate resolution then it should look identical.
Scaling also resamples the image which would rejigger the sharpening and contrast to the new size, while resizing is just smooshing the current pixels; very fine detail at full size will end up mashed together. Try resizing but then applying another sharpening pass and see if you can get more similar results to the rescale.
