Help understanding change in Drop shadow Appearance

[CirceD]

I created a noise drop shadow and when I save it as a jpeg or PNG the drop shadow goes soft in appearance. Anyone know why?

[Bojan Živković]

Can you post before/after or Photoshop versus exported image and export or save settings?

[CirceD]

PSD is before

JPEG-Options is setting for save

New year.jpg is the result.

Thank you

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

Could you please post screenshots taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible? 

It seems like this might be the old cache-issue. 

[Bojan Živković · Accepted solution]

I compared the original image with the JPEG image saved at maximum quality and imported back into Photoshop. I did not notice any significant difference in the drop shadow at 100% zoom level.

[CirceD]

This occurs if I merge the two text layers. I can see that is what Photoshop does when I save to JPG.

I am looking for a more spread out noise appearance. See attached.

[CirceD]

I hope you can see what I see in this video. I recorded the save to a jpeg screen.

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

@CirceD 

The video was recorded at 31% zoom level and NOT at the requested 100% zoom level where 1 image pixel is directly mapped to 1 screen pixel (1:1).

Here is an animation at 100% view, there is no change in appearance!

[CirceD]

I see that at 100%.  Thank you for all your help.