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November 14, 2018
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Photos seem blurry until I zoom in on photoshop

  • November 14, 2018
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Hi All,

Photos seem unncessarily blurry until I zoom in and out of photoshop cc. It's driving me crazy (especially, when I have many photos to go through!).

What is the cause of this issue?! What can I do about this (settings, etc), it is making me scrap photos that I should not be scrapping (especially, when I use a manual focus lense at times).

Sample photo at different zoom levels...

26%

33%

50%

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최고의 답변: davescm

Hi

The only way to judge sharpness is at 100% zoom where 1 image pixel is mapped to 1 screen pixel and avoids any interpolation

When you zoom out, another issue also comes to play. At zoom levels less than 66.7% any blending between layers uses 8 bit previews rather than the full image data.

So a zoomed out view can be used for composition etc, but for checking sharpness or blending always use 100%

Dave

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Participant
January 24, 2023

I have the same issue. Its bothering me because it never use to do that! 

davescm
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November 14, 2018

Hi

The only way to judge sharpness is at 100% zoom where 1 image pixel is mapped to 1 screen pixel and avoids any interpolation

When you zoom out, another issue also comes to play. At zoom levels less than 66.7% any blending between layers uses 8 bit previews rather than the full image data.

So a zoomed out view can be used for composition etc, but for checking sharpness or blending always use 100%

Dave

Participant
November 14, 2018

Dave, that seems rather counter intuitive! That would add another process to another already (lengthy) editing process.

When flicking through photos, you want to know quickly if they are sharp at 25% or 30%, not at 100%.

Is there anyway to bypass that at all?

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 14, 2018

Hi marcoh21281877,

This is from Adobe Help:

View images in Photoshop