I use PSP Studio and PSP9 and everytime I crop and make bases, the image becomes blurry and unsharp but I do soften it and it still ends up unsharpened.
An Example::

How do I get to look more like sharp and clear? Like this::
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An Example::

How do I get to look more like sharp and clear? Like this::
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