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Reduced quality in Full Screen Preview in CS6 Bridge


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I have just moved up to CS6 after many years of using Elements - so am coping fairly well with my new "toy" !

One thing has me a bit baffled:

I store my photographs in two formats: the original in .nef and the processed final version in .psd.
If I select "full screen preview" of a .psd file, in Bridge, it comes up full screen, but not at what I would consider to be best quality.
If I export a copy at 800 or 1280 quality in .jpg and view it in Windows Photo Viewer (or open the file in Photoshop itself) there is a distinct difference in picture quality compared to Bridge. The Bridge copy seems to have slightly muted colours and the sharpness is markedly less. I have two monitors so can compare them side-by-side, and have transposed them on the monitors with no difference.
In Elements, I can have the organiser on one monitor, if I highlight a thumbnail and hit F11 I get a full screen and full quality view on the other monitor.

Is this a "design feature" of Bridge/CS6 ? or have I missed something when setting CS6 up in the first place ?

Any thoughts/ideas/solutions would be most gratefully received ...........
 
It takes Bridge a few seconds to render large files, wait a few seconds and see if it improves.
Also remember when you're viewing a raw file in Bridge, and it hasn't previously been open in ACR, no sharpening has been applied to the image.
Some sharpening can be applied in ACR if you set it up that way, and additional sharpening is almost always added when editing an image.
 
Thanks for that Steve.

I am looking at sharpened .psd files. Waiting has no effect either.

Being a first time user of CS I don't know if this facility, let alone the problem I am experiencing, is peculiar to CS6 or if it occurs on earlier versions.

Something that I have noticed is that if I am in full screen preview and then click my mouse to zoom in on the photograph, it does appear to sharpen up - but of course I can no longer see the whole photograph and the definition quality is much reduced by having zoomed in so much :confused:

I would say that for comparison sakes there is as much difference in sharpness between the .nef full screen preview and the .psd full screen preview - as there is between the .psd full screen preview and the exported .jpg copy in Windows Photo Viewer. It is sort of - "half" sharpened !
 
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