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Inspiring
July 24, 2023
Question

Heavily pixelated sign

  • July 24, 2023
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Tried viewing in both lightroom classic and lightroom 5, both times the yellow + green sign appears heavily pixelated despite being right next to another sign which appears fine. Any help appreciated

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Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2023

I downloaded your file and viewed at 100%. The sign is still way too small to see an issue. However, zooming to 200% then 300% I can see pattern rather than what you describe as pixelated.  The fact that there are no silmilar patterns anywhere else on the image would suggest that niether the file or LrC are the cause. My guess is that the sign has a textured or patterned coating the to make it more visble when car/truck headlights shine on it.

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2023

thanks, Ill let you know if I enounter this problem elsewhere (I have for instance noticed branches against the sky tend to be a bit pixellated too)


I've attached a section of your image at 200%. Notice that the size of the squares pattern on the green sign doesn't match  the pixel size on the brown sign.

 

HmmokthenAuthor
Inspiring
July 25, 2023

dj_paige
Legend
July 24, 2023

Are we looking at a 1:1 view? If not, then show us the 1:1 view.

HmmokthenAuthor
Inspiring
July 25, 2023

Have uploaded full size jpg with no processing

dj_paige
Legend
July 25, 2023

I said show us 1:1 view, not full size.

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 24, 2023

Is this straight out of camera, or edited?

 

The yellow/green sign kind of looks like it was painted with a masked adjustment brush with a high amount of Sharpness or maybe Texture.

Michael J. Hoffman
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 24, 2023

Can you give more details about the image? What kind of file, what resolution, what camera took it? This looks like a compressed JPG, and JPG compression might not create artifacts as noticeable in the smooth color area of the larger sign.

HmmokthenAuthor
Inspiring
July 24, 2023

Standard resolution RAW file for canon 5d mk2, about 5k+ pixels long

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 24, 2023

Can you upload a copy of the otiginal raw file to Dropbox or similar and post the link to the forum? This will allow us to check the file.