Images need to be 200% – not in Animate though.

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June 26, 2019
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Hi all,

I'm lucky enough to now have a Mac Pro (2017) 5120 x 2880 at work. However now when I view a Adobe Photoshop low res image say of a 300x250 pixel MPU it actually looks like it's half the size 150x125 and I have increase to 200% to view and edit 'normally'.

I know about screen resolution etc… and accepted the issue until I just opened a Adobe Animate file of the same size and guess what? It looks 'Tickety boo', it looks OK at 100%.

So my question to Adobe is;

Am a being stupid and missing something and why does Animate display "correctly' while Photoshop doesn't.

Help please?

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dano14087812Author

Known Participant

Thank you very much gentlemen.

Having to work at 200% is excruciatingly painful.

Does anyone have a workaround?

Thx

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

I don't really understand your question regarding a workaround.

What you seem to be saying is, when I take an image out of Photoshop into a vector application, that particular application is displaying it using 4 screen pixels for each image pixel. Can Photoshop do that? The answer is yes. That is exactly what 200% zoom does. It maps 1 image pixel onto 4 screen pixels.

Dave

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dano14087812Author

Known Participant

Hi,

what I'm saying is I'm working on elements in Photoshop (perhaps I should change applications) that are viewed online with text etc… and prior to having my flash new mac everything was same size (near enough), now at 100% what I'm working on looks visually 50% smaller and a bit awkward to adjust to.

Rgds

davescm

Community Expert

Yes. The difference is that Photoshop is a pixel editor. Therefore 100% zoom has to be 1 image pixel mapped to 1 screen pixel. It has no relation to physical size and is critical to pixel assessment that it works that way. Any scaling introduces artifacts.

Other Adobe apps, which are not pixel editors, can define 100% based on physical size and map differently as pixel level artifacts are not critical.

Dave

D Fosse

Community Expert

Excellent explanation, and 100% to the point (no pun).

A vector-based application doesn't know what a pixel is. It can only relate to physical print size.

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