Bridge CS6 Slideshow not sharp,what about CC?

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May 2, 2017
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Hello, have not used this forum in several years.

Long ago I noticed behaviors using Bridge in either the Slideshow mode or Full Screen did not display sharply. What occurs is if one mouse select an image in the Preview pane and hits the spacebar or performs View...Full Screen Preview, the full image is displayed to fit ones monitor full screen with Bridge downsizing large images beyond maximum monitor dimensions to fit either in portrait or landscape orientations. However the displayed image is not sharp. If one then mouse selects that image, it displays at 100% pixels at whatever that native sharpness is. With my images all far larger than any monitor displays, that is tact sharp. However because that 100% pixels image is much larger than any monitor can display, one views only a portion of that image. Holding down the left mouse button one can move the image display to other parts of a monitor screen. Additionally if using the Bridge slideshow function, large images are downsized to fit one's monitor display likewise and are also identically not sharp. Of course if one selects a large image in a Preview pane that then opens in Photoshop, entering <CTRL><ALT>0 will downsize an image to maximally fit whatever open window. And render so sharply.

Note am running Photoshop CS6 on both an old Vista desktop with an old high end NEC 2k display and off a Dell XPS 15 9550 laptop with a 4k display with Windows 10 plus an external 24 inch Ultrasharp 4k display.

My solution after perusing the web and forums like this was to not use the Adobe Bridge Slideshow function and instead if I wish to, open Irfanview that in any case has much more elaborate options. Today revisited this limitation and noticed it is the same and found nothing more with web searches except some feedback to Adobe to fix it. But now that I am likely at some point to upgrade to CC, am wondering what is the Bridge behavior in CC? I would expect fixing the above was a trivial issue and since it made the Slideshow mode rather useless expect Adobe indeed did so.

David

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Correct answer Sahil.Chawla

Thanks for the valuable feedback, David. I'll surely pass this on to the engineering team and let them know about this issue.

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi davids,

Have you tried purging the cache from Bridge's preferences?

Regards,

Sahil

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Sure. When I entered the question, I expected anyone responding would understand I've already done the obvious after reading all the previous advice. Your response seems to indicate you think I am doing something incorrectly.

Look if you search on the issue, obviously others saw the same thing and there was no solution. If you read my email, it relates the image is sharp at 100% pixels, but just not when the Bridge software downsizes a large image. When Bridge displays at 100% pixels such large images are indeed sharp for as much as a monitor can fit on a screen. Thus this is a Bridge software issue. If Bridge used the same algorithm Photoshop uses to display large images downsized there would be no issue. Of course when any image is downsized, details are lost, however the resulting display can still be sharp even with finer detail different. And all display programs do that. Just not bridge.

Here is an downsized image loaded on my website. The original image is 8900 by 6000 pixels.

http://www.davidsenesac.com/2017_Trip_Chronicles/QM05411-05427-3x1vsl.jpg

Attached is a 100% pixels crop in Photoshop of that bush sticking up in the skyline right of center.

In Photoshop CS6 on my old NEC 24 inch 1080p monitor with 96ppi, I used my smartphone 14 megapixel camera to take a crude picture of the full image on the monitor. Then in Photoshop cropped the resulting 6.3 megapixel image for just the bush area that is attached as QM5411-original-crop. Then brought that same full image up with Adobe Bridge CS6 that also filled most of my monitor screen and likewise took another smartphone image. The QM5411-ABr-crop.jpg stored at just 5.2mp a clear indication the later was much less sharp. But go look at it yourself as both are attached also. The Adobe Bridge Slideshow or Full Screen Preview downsized images are so obviously soft as to be a worthless function and that is why if you web search will find feedback asking Adobe to fix it.