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RayeRodriguez
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November 7, 2016
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Images appear pixelated at certain zoom percentages

  • November 7, 2016
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I'm having a frustrating problem on my Windows 10 PC where images are appearing pixelated at specific zooms, like 16.67%, 33.33%, 66.67% . . . This wasn't happening a few days ago, but here we are now.

I tried updating to Photoshop CC 2017, toggling the "Use Graphics Processor" option in preferences, and updating Windows. Nothing has helped!

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Correct answer gener7

A few ideas before we go to graphics drivers:

Reset your Zoom Tool by right clicking on it in the Options bar.

In Preferences > Performance: Cache levels and Tile Size  4/128k

Sometimes Adobe Camera Raw's GPU function causes problems. Uncheck that.

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marinaf42882646
Participant
November 29, 2021

Hello, 

 

I have a similar problem. When I zoom after 470% my image is totally differente, as you can see. 


I hope that somebody could help me.

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Frederico5C58
Participant
June 20, 2021

Did you find a solution?

I got the same problem

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    monnar89752145
    Participant
    March 26, 2023

    Just increase the cache levels on Preferences>Performance

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    Jeanette32213540mq9i
    Participant
    May 26, 2024

    I tried but my cache levels are already in 4... how much more can i increase?

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    Rygel02
    Participant
    November 1, 2017

    Go to Edit>Preferences>Performance

    Check the allowed memory usage and increase the cache tile size. That worked for me anyway,

      JJMack
      Community Expert
      JJMackCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 7, 2016

      That is rule Number ONE.

      JJMack
        gener7
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        gener7Community Expert
        Community Expert
        November 7, 2016

        Anytime "something was not happening before, but is now", I'd suggest a Preferences reset.

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        RayeRodriguezAuthor
        Participant
        November 7, 2016

        Good suggestion, unfortunately it didn't fix the problem this time

        gener7
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        gener7Community ExpertCorrect answer
        Community Expert
        November 7, 2016

        A few ideas before we go to graphics drivers:

        Reset your Zoom Tool by right clicking on it in the Options bar.

        In Preferences > Performance: Cache levels and Tile Size  4/128k

        Sometimes Adobe Camera Raw's GPU function causes problems. Uncheck that.

        JJMack
        Community Expert
        JJMackCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 7, 2016

        Yes Photoshop scale an image quickly when you zoom for performance.  Some zoom percentages look very poor.  You not looking at your image. You are look at a quickly scaled image a quick preview of your what you image looks like.  The only time you are viewing your actual image is when you view the images actual pixels zoom 100%.  Judge your image when you are actually viewing you image. Some image look worse than others

        JJMack
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