Photos appear pixelated

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March 16, 2024
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All images on Lightroom appear pixelated if you zoom far enough (800% or so).

However if you are on develop module and you press F (fullscreen) they get unpixelated.

And that unpixelated version is what you get when you export them.

So I am listing it as a bug not only because, while I am editing, I don't see what I will export, but also because I don't like pixelated pictures.

The only way that I know to get the unpixelated version while editing is to set the zoom to "fit" and have the "use GPU for display" unchecked. Of course you can notice that only on small crops.

Windows

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Per Berntsen

Community Expert

When you view an image at 800%, 16 screen pixels are used to display one image pixel, so it will be pixellated. That's how pixel based images work. It is not a bug.

To see a true representation of the image, view it at 100%, where one screen pixel is displayed using one screen pixel.

When you press F, the image fits the screen, and the magnification will be much less than 800%, usually less than 100%.