Image becomes blurry when put into photoshop CS6

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June 29, 2019
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I am really new to using photoshop -- I've only used it a handful of times (and not very well, I'll admit). Since I'm so new to the program I'm pretty clueless about what to do about this issue. I've noticed it every time I've used the program, but it seems to be worse than before (I'm not too sure why it would be worse now, or if it's just more noticeable because of the image that I opened) I've done some searching and I can't seem to find anything that matches up with the issue that I'm having.

When I upload an image into photoshop to make adjustments to it, the quality becomes quite poor. Before opening the image in photoshop the images are clear, but as soon as they are in photoshop they are blurry and pixelated. It makes it quite difficult to use the application, obviously.

Zooming in does not help with the clarity of the image, so I don't think that the issue is just that I'm too far zoomed out. I've tried opening images in multiple different ways (drag and drop, opening a file from my desktop, creating a new document in photoshop then putting the image in) and nothing has made a difference.

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adelineb96675285Author

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Here is a screenshot of an image before opening it into photoshop:

And here's the image after it's opened into photoshop

Hopefully you're able to see the difference well enough, putting the original image on here seems to reduce the resolution some as well, which I guess is kind of to be expected.

I don't have any images that didn't appear blurry, and I'm using photoshop on mac. The image size is 3888 × 2592.

Norman Sanders

Legend

You are viewing the bottom image at 22% of size, which does not produce a true measure of sharpness because of the method employed for presenting the reduced size view. It is advisable to compare image sharpness at 100% of size, even if you can compare only a matching segment of the images.

gener7

Community Expert

When zoomed in at 100% the image is the clearest, however, it's still fairly blurry because of how zoomed in it is. It would be much more manageable to edit with the amount of blurriness it has at 100% but I'm only able to see a small fraction of the image. For example, with the image shown above, I'm not even able to see the entire cabinet. Does anyone know a way around this that allows me to see a greater portion of the image clearly without just using a bigger screen to have more space?

The incremental zoom levels of 25, 50, 66% give you a sharper view compared to an non incremental 22%. See if 25% improves the view.

mglush

Community Expert

Hi!

Just a few questions...the images that you are opening, were they created in a later version of Photoshop?

Do you have any images that you have opened that didn't look blurry?

Also, what i the pixel size of the images you are working on (for example 100 px by 100 px -- you can find that info by pressing Cmd-Opt-C Mac / Ctro-Alt-C Win)?

And one last question, are you working on a Mac or Windows machine?

Michelle

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Can you please open image in Photoshop and take screenshot then post it here. From screenshot we can extract many useful informations and provide to you some advice or answer, Without screenshot and more informations we can only start guessing what can be the reason for blurry and pixelated images.