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jasminveg
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March 2, 2020
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Unsharp on new iMac Retina Display

  • March 2, 2020
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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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Correct answer D Fosse

"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.

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Kenneth KawamotoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2020

> 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

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 3, 2020

    "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.

      Derek Cross
      Community Expert
      Derek CrossCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 2, 2020

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

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      jasminvegAuthor
      Participant
      March 3, 2020

      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)

      Sahil.Chawla
      Adobe Employee
      Sahil.Chawla
      Adobe Employee
      March 2, 2020

      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


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      jasminvegAuthor
      Participant
      March 3, 2020

      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

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