The one where you have an image with several adjustment layers and you merge some layers or flatten the image and the density and saturation changes. If you view it in actual pixels it does not change. Bad bug, Bad bad bug.
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zoo, all crucial editing should be done at 100 percent pixels… anything less and you’ve got antialiasing and other display issues clouding the real view of things. It’s always been this way in Photoshop.
Crucial editing can not always be done at 100 %! Try working on a 3 gig image and using actual pixels view. Duhhhhh I know it’s always been this way, that is the problem. Actual pixels is the only acuate view, we all know that and that is the problem!
How would you suggest that you can fit all of the pixels in a 3GB image onto your 72 ppi monitor, so that they are all visible at once, without interpolation? [That’s what you are seeing when you look at an image at other than 100%.]
Although you could always ask Sony to build you a Custom truck-sized monitor
Crying wolf, get real & save that type of worthless comments to yourself! It may not be a bug, but it is a sever limitation to working with digital images in photoshop. Like I stated, you can’t work on large images in actual pixels, no way no how. Flattening large images every-time is to time consuming and also not an option. An alternative viewing option that shows what you really are getting may be the ticket. How hard could that be if it shows you the correct view when flattened? AKA view flattened mode. Just because it’s always been a problem doesn’t mean it should be accepted.
"Right now my only option to get an accurate view of my image is to flatten which takes a long time even on a dual G5!."
Dude – that’s exactly what PShop would have to do to get an accurate preview…the file itself wouldnt be flattned, but it will still have to render a flattened composite for a preview which could take ages with a big file.
I want a solution to the problem! What ever it is. I don’t know how to do it, or if it is possible. I would think something better than the current limitations is doable. People working in large size images, Which i seem to be in the extreme minority 1-4 gigs need an accurate view without having to view in actual pixels or flatten the image. That is not practical work flow. Actual pixels gives me a view of a box of pixels that is pretty much useless on a large image.
zoozx – there is no solution other than viewing at 100%. Anything less than 100% must be a reduced resolution preview, and cannot be completely accurate (because pixel values have been averaged or subsampled to get that preview).
This problem can only be solved by an investment in hardware.
In other words, follow the suggestion that I made a while ago and commission Sony or Apple to build you a bus-sized monitor ; then you CAN edit all of those giga-files at 100%.
With the price of fuel these days, keeping a bus-sized monitor truckin along will be rough on the designer’s pocketbook (unless we can write off mileage).
And don’t get me started on the iron-fisted EPA regulations certain for such a screen! Although, I will finally have a valid excuse to add some bling bling to my monitor hood.
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