Let's say for whatever reason you have to crop a little but you still want the picture to have roughly the same pixel dimensions as when you started. For example start with a 4000x6000 image, crop it a little, and bring it back up to 4000x6000 pixels. There are several ways to do this in Photoshop and Lightroom, but which is the best way, in your view? Or are third party plugins noticeably better than photoshop?
In Photoshop neural filters there is the smart zoom tool that zooms in a new layer without changing overall image size and applies 'enhance detail' if you click that checkbox. In the image size menu using the 'preserve details 2.0 when resampling seems to be quite good too. In Lightroom or ACR the super-resolution tool doubles the width and height before cropping, but that can maybe be overkill.
What is your best way?
In Photoshop neural filters there is the smart zoom tool that zooms in a new layer without changing overall image size and applies 'enhance detail' if you click that checkbox. In the image size menu using the 'preserve details 2.0 when resampling seems to be quite good too. In Lightroom or ACR the super-resolution tool doubles the width and height before cropping, but that can maybe be overkill.
What is your best way?