Image Border Help!

Every time I resize and image, Photoshop "brightens" the borders, Why? I would like to just shrink an image, but it adds a one pixel border to the image that is lighter in color than all the pixels next to it making it blatantly obvious that its there. What could that conceivably be useful for, and how do I resize an image without it doing this?

Not totally sure, but when you resize a photo (particularily graphics - things with contrasted borders), you have a couple options for resizing, like a bicubic and bilinear. I believe with graphics you want to use Bicubic?

Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's a direction to try.

Yeah I tried them. I like the bicubic option the best for the look but its the one and only one that brightens the border... lame. Whatever, I just took 1 extra pixel on each side from the original image and then resized and cut off the extra 1px border when I was done.

Stupid but effective way of working around it. I would still like to know why and how to fix it, even though for this project I worked around it.

Actually it just occurred to me that it may be that retarded photoshop thing where when you cut something from an image or modify pixels in using the box to to select them, it will modify the 1px "border" outside the box to look more like the part the you ONLY wanted to change. If that makes sense. That would explain my problem because I had white around the picture I was using so instead of doing what I wanted, PS did that and brightened the bordering pixels. :( lame.

I'm almost 100% certain that "Photoshop" didn't do anything you didn't tell it to do. Software is funny that way.

Without having the actually .psd file "before" your resize I can only make guesses. My first guess would be that maybe you had a layer style applied somewhere and it didn't scale.

I would suggest useing the crop tool (fixed size) and cropping it to the size you are resizing to. That should eliminate your problem.