Re: finder icons pixilated

Subject	Re: finder icons pixilated
Date	2013-12-18 18:10 -0800
From	William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Message-ID	<181220131810130091%whanna@invalid.invalid> (permalink)
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In article <20131218152919107-alangbaker@telusnet>, Alan Baker
<alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:

> On 2013-12-16 01:43:07 +0000, William Hanna said:
> 
> > In article <2013121515224728187-alangbaker@telusnet>, Alan Baker
> > <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2013-12-15 18:29:02 +0000, William Hanna said:
> >> 
> >>> when i look at folders of my art (in icon view in the finder with icons
> >>> set as larger as possible (512 px i think)) they are not at all sharp
> >>> but very pixilated.
> >>> 
> >>> i'm using PS CS6 to save the files.
> >>> 
> >>> shouldn't those icons be sharp and crisp at 512 pixels?
> >>> 
> >>> any ideas?
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> bill
> >> 
> >> Check what size of icon PS is set to generate.
> >> 
> > 
> > thanks Alan
> > 
> > that was the first place i looked and couldn't find a PS preference
> > specifying icon size.
> > 
> > do you know where it is?
> 
> I don't. I just checked PS CS5 and it appears that under the file 
> handling preferences there isn't an option to adjust the icon image 
> size, but...
> 
> ...did you check there to see if Photoshop is creating an icon image at all?
> 
> It's possible that for some reason the Finder is not doing a good job 
> of creating a preview on the fly.
> 


apparently PS CS6 is creating a low-res image for the icon. and i can't
seem to figure out how or if that can be changed.

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finder icons pixilated William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 10:29 -0800
  Re: finder icons pixilated nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-15 13:58 -0500
  Re: finder icons pixilated billy@MIX.COM - 2013-12-15 20:34 +0000
    Re: finder icons pixilated William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 13:35 -0800
  Re: finder icons pixilated Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2013-12-15 15:22 -0800
    Re: finder icons pixilated William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 17:43 -0800
      Re: finder icons pixilated Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2013-12-18 15:29 -0800
        Re: finder icons pixilated William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-18 18:10 -0800

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