Image display / view quality

Images on my MacBook Pro are not very good, even in the develop window. iPhoto shows the same images with excellent quality. These are typically 6mm pixel images 2k x 3k and the problem is both with nikon camera raw and jpg images. I have the display quality set to ''high'', the 1:1 (which is pretty darn small) in the Library window looks ok, but as soon as I enlarge it, the resolution becomes terrible.



What can I do to make the image view in the Develop window of a higher quality? Thanks for any help.
Image display / view quality
Could you describe in more detail the differences in quality? And what you mean by 1:1 being ''small''?
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Image display / view quality
It's almost as if I go above the 1:1 display in Dev window I get a very pixelated view, not sharp at all. the 1:1 size view is about a 3''x2'' display of the image, centered in the Develop window. It's much too small for development work. I also use Photoshop CS2 on a PC and have no trouble at all with image sizes. what confuses me is that if I use iPhoto (the stock Mac photoware) I get very nice, sharp, large images, but the views in LR are just totally unusable for development work.



How do the images look on your Pro? I have exactly the same maching, Pro 2GHZ Core Duo with 2meg ram 15'' display.

i went back and looked at some 2006 pic's i loaded and they look great on LR. must be the way i loaded the images as it appears to be only the ones I recently loaded that dont work. the 1:1 views of the older images is exactly what you'd expect to see. Dont know why the 2007 images i loaded dont work, I'll delete them, reload and see if I can figure it out.



Thanks for your help.

I think it's possible that you have loaded iPhotos thumbs instead of the original image files.



/Andreas

It wouldn't be the first time this has happened. They live in separate folders but have the same names. Delete the minis and imort from the Top Data folder of iPhoto stored files.



Don



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I think that is exactly what I did. Thanks all for the help and explanation.

Glad that's sorted.
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