working below 100% view

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crescent_au
Apr 17, 2005
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Hi all,
This may sound quite obvious or it may be just the way it is… I’ve noticed that viewing an image at 50% or 75% (anything below 100%) doesn’t give you a detailed version of that image. The image looks a bit distorted if u look at it closely. Sometimes when I’m working with large images, I need to see the entire image to make changes. Looking at the entire image gives you a better idea of how things have to be done. For large image, viewing it in its entirety means going below 100% but when I do that, I can see distortions. Is there a way to view images below 100% without any quality degradation?

Thanx
Ben
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nomail
Apr 17, 2005
Ben wrote:

This may sound quite obvious or it may be just the way it is… I’ve noticed that viewing an image at 50% or 75% (anything below 100%) doesn’t give you a detailed version of that image. The image looks a bit distorted if u look at it closely. Sometimes when I’m working with large images, I need to see the entire image to make changes. Looking at the entire image gives you a better idea of how things have to be done. For large image, viewing it in its entirety means going below 100% but when I do that, I can see distortions. Is there a way to view images below 100% without any quality degradation?

No. Your screen has a limited resolution, for example 1024 x 768 pixels. If you image is bigger than that and you still want to see the whole picture, Photoshop has no choice but to resample the displayed image to fit into those 1024 x 768 pixels. The best quality is at 50%, 25% and 12.5%, avoid 66% or 33%.

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Bill Hilton
Apr 17, 2005
Is there a way to view
images below 100% without any quality degradation?

50% or 25% should be pretty good.
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Craig Flory
Apr 18, 2005
You only have to worry about 100%. Viewing smaller is to give you the overall view. But
when you have it printed, at the color lab, you will have the clarity of the 100% view. As a
professional photographer I go back & forth often. Oh … I do NOT use %’s …. I use control
and the + & – keys to make it bigger & smaller for viewing except for clicking back to print
size.

Craig Flory
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Tacit
Apr 18, 2005
In article ,
(Ben) wrote:

Is there a way to view
images below 100% without any quality degradation?

No, of course not. When you are zoomed out, many pixels in the image are being displayed on only one pixel on your monitor.

Your monitor is broken up into pixels. When you view the image at 100%, one image pixel is being displayed on each monitor pixel. When you zoom out, your monitor’s resolution is still fixed; many image pixels now are being displayer on each monitor pixel.

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