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August 1, 2018
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Photoshop CC 2018 and retina displays

  • August 1, 2018
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I've been trying to solve this problem for a week now and I've come up empty handed. The pixel count in Photoshop is different than on my browser, for example.

I've been trying to make gifs to upload to tumblr, whose standard dimensions for images/gifs are 540px wide. I made a gif that was 540px wide on Photoshop and when I uploaded it to tumblr, it was resized up and I lost all the sharpness of it. I screenshotted the gif and opened the shot on Photoshop, cropped out the gif to see its dimensions and they were 676px wide instead of 540px (after tumblr resized it). After that I made a 676px wide gif and tried uploading it, but tumblr still resized it and i lost the sharpness of it. I'm gonna leave links here so yall can see it.

540px wide: https://78.media.tumblr.com/ac610492f278b1f1db374e15ca8f533b/tumblr_pcrgrbPAFX1sfalfpo1_540.gif

676px wide: https://78.media.tumblr.com/8edd92c115335ca39fc73b955897bcea/tumblr_pcrfk1IuM71sfalfpo1_1280.gif 

Idk if you'll be able to see it like I do, on my browser they all display differently from Photoshop, as if the browser's resized them to its definition of 540px and 676px

I've tried finding the option to open Photoshop in low res but I can't find it on my windows. I've opened the gifs on a desktop w a normal screen and the one that's 540px wide looks like it does on my Photoshop, but on my screen everything looks out of proportion on the browser.

I just want to fix this problem and I don't know how, please help me.

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    Correct answer Per Berntsen

    A Retina display has a much higher pixel density than a regular display – the pixels are much smaller, and consequently images will appear smaller.

    Other applications, like web browsers, will scale images to 200% when they detect a Retina display, but Photoshop cannot do this – it has to display images correctly, and will display one screen pixel for one image pixel at 100% view.

    This topic has been discussed many times on this forum – do a forum search for "retina 100%".

    The gifs that you linked to look perfectly fine on my non-Retina screen.

    I don't use tumblr, but a Google search for "tumblr retina support" will bring up some solutions that you can look into.

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    magical_Skyline0D4A
    magical_Skyline0D4A
    Inspiring
    August 2, 2018

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    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    August 2, 2018

    A Retina display has a much higher pixel density than a regular display – the pixels are much smaller, and consequently images will appear smaller.

    Other applications, like web browsers, will scale images to 200% when they detect a Retina display, but Photoshop cannot do this – it has to display images correctly, and will display one screen pixel for one image pixel at 100% view.

    This topic has been discussed many times on this forum – do a forum search for "retina 100%".

    The gifs that you linked to look perfectly fine on my non-Retina screen.

    I don't use tumblr, but a Google search for "tumblr retina support" will bring up some solutions that you can look into.

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