Unsharp on new iMac Retina Display

[jasminveg]

Hello,

I've got a new iMac last week and now all my files seem to be unsharp.

Through google I found out that it probably has to do with the Retina Display.

I basically design for my web, so I am confused when everything seems to be unsharp.

Which solutions do I have to fix this problem? 

I saw I could scale down the monitor settings, but I guess that's the least one to do.

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[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi there,

Does the files look sharp outside of Photoshop?

Have you tried lowering the screen resolution and see if the files look sharper then?

Regards,
Sahil

[jasminveg]

Hi Sahil,

thank you for trying to help.

I tried already lowering the screen resolution, but I cant work like that 

in general everything looks normal

but when I open Photoshop all files look 100% smaller now , 100% is sharp, but then when I zoom in to 200%, so I have the size I am used to work with, everything is unsharp of course and therefore I don't know how to work

I have this problem only in Photoshop so far, using the same version as before, just the iMac changed

[Derek Cross]

Look at the images at 100% to see how the resolution of these images will appear on screen.

[jasminveg]

yeah they are sharp at photoshop, but not when I try to implent it in my website for example as a banner

therefore I never know if its really unsharp or just my retina display shows it unsharp (at least I think it has to do with retina)

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

"I saw I could scale down the monitor settings"

Actually that's what all your Mac native applications do when they detect a high-resolution display, including Safari. Your images are scaled so that one image pixel is represented by four screen pixels.

It's a workaround, but it's the industry-accepted one, and the only way to ensure that all images can be displayed on all devices and screens.

Photoshop can't do that. It has to be absolutely accurate - it's used by a lot more people than web designers. But you can do the same thing in Photoshop with View > 200%. Then it will match Safari because they're doing exactly the same thing to the image pixels.

[Kenneth Kawamoto]

> yeah they are sharp at photoshop, but not when I try to implent it in my website for example as a banner

In order to display images sharp on retina displays you need to prepare them @2x size