Preview does not fill the entire screen

Question

I have recently started using Bridge 2020 on a MacBook Pro High Sierra (coming from the old Bridge CS5). There are a number of degradations in the new Bridge 2020 and I can't see what's actually better - overall it seems to be clumsy port of the old bridge which worked rather well. I shall create a different thread for each problem.

My Macbook pro is 13" and the inbuilt retina screen has 2560 x 1600 pixels. I routinely use files having 900x1350 pixels. Under the old bridge, when viewing the file using "Full Screen Preview", it would zoom into the file and would fill in the screen so that the height is scaled up (1350 to 1600). The same problem exists for the Slideshow functionality. AFAIK there is no option to tell Bridge to scale up Previews....

I can see the rationale for this, but there ought to be at least a preference option allowing scale up. This problem did not exist under Bridge CS5.

Thanks in advance

ash_ess · Accepted Answer

David, are you getting the image to full screen or are you getting the image surrounded by your default shading that fills your screen?

Here's a 50% sized screenshot of what the discussion is focusing on. Yes it's full screen but the image (900 pixels wide) is certainly not.

OK, I think the issue is that the old CS5 Bridge did not/could not use the full resolution of the Retina screen therefore it ran on emulation of a lower res screen. The root problem of not having an option in preferences to scale up images for preview existed in CS5 as well.

What I always do is to keep the originals of my photos on multiple backup devises and keep a "screen-sized" resolution of the image for permanent storage on the Mac. The CS5 screen resolution meant that my portrait file size of 900x1350 was ample for filling the screen. Not so for native resolution of Retina. I can't even reduce the display resolution of the Retina down to "fix" the problem. An alternative approach is to plug in a low-res monitor as a secondary display but I can't test that option...

gary_sc · Answer

Hi AshSnagaki,

Probably you need to tell Bridge to create monitor-sized previews here

However, you may not want that. For one thing it will increase the time to access your images as Bridge is busy generating those cached images. Remember also that the storage size of a document goes up 400% when you just double the image size so your caches will be much larger as a consequense.

Lastly, when you are jumping from your smaller image files to the "fill screen" size, they will not be sharp.

This probably will not help your needs but good luck, let us know if this does help or not.

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