How can I get better results when shrinking an image

Question

I\'m scaling images down in c#, and I\'ve compared my methods with the best method in Photoshop cs5 and cannot replicate it.

In PS i\'m using bicubic sharper, which

Answer 1

I stumbled upon this question.

I used this code to use no compression of the jpeg and it comes out like the PS version:

ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders(); 
    ImageCodecInfo ici = null; 
    foreach (ImageCodecInfo codec in codecs)
    { 
        if (codec.MimeType == "image/jpeg") 
            ici = codec; 
    } 

    EncoderParameters ep = new EncoderParameters(); 
    ep.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, (long)100);