ACR Detail showing more resolution when effects eye icon pressed

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September 14, 2025
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With all values set to zero I get an increase in sharpness and detail when I click on the eye icon to temporarily disable the effect panel. It's like ACR is applying some hidden NR and softening to minimise any edge artefacts.

Windows

Correct answer D Fosse

There must be some setting that is different from your defaults. Do you have 0 as default setting?

I checked again and the eye icon is grayed out and inaccessible if settings are at default values. This applies for raw files as well as RGB.

Click reset and try again. My guess is that something will snap out of 0 and back to your default values.

J

JustanarcminuteAuthor

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Ah I think I can see what's happening now. When I turn off all the settings and then press the eye icon it's actualy applying the default settings of added sharpening and NR. Thanks for bearing with me on this - problem solved!

D Fosse

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Community Expert

There must be some setting that is different from your defaults. Do you have 0 as default setting?

I checked again and the eye icon is grayed out and inaccessible if settings are at default values. This applies for raw files as well as RGB.

Click reset and try again. My guess is that something will snap out of 0 and back to your default values.

J

JustanarcminuteAuthor

Participating Frequently

That's true on a TIFF or JPEG as I tried to replicate it but not with RAW. I also tried a RAW converted to DNG and it's showing the same behaviour.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Actually the eye icon will not be clickable if there are no settings applied. So you must have something.

J

JustanarcminuteAuthor

Participating Frequently

It's actualy 200% to make the difference more easily observable but thesame is seen at 100%. I fully understand the possible effect of screen resolution settings and resampling algorithms. Suggest you try this yourself by observing a RAW image ( I've tried it with different camera RAW files) and turning all sharpening and NR sliders to zero and then clicking the eye icon while viewing at 100% (or multiples thereof).

D Fosse

Community Expert

Is this 100%? It's critical that one image pixel is represented by exactly one physical screen pixel.

At any other zoom ratio it's subject to different screen resampling algorithms, and the GPU/driver will play a part in that.

J

JustanarcminuteAuthor

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