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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

#53382 — finder icons pixilated

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

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#53383

In article <151220131029029296%whanna@invalid.invalid>, William Hanna
<whanna@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> 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?

not necessarily.

get an asset management app like lightroom or aperture or even iphoto,
finder was never intended to manage photos.

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#53385

William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> writes:

> 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?

They can be, yes, if they're created at 512x512.  For example,
here are two of Apple's on a 1280x1024 display -

http://hints.macworld.com/images/hugefinderb.jpg

> any ideas?

Perhaps Graphic Converter will do this better, although I
can't check it today to confirm.  You can, at no cost -

http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/

In its File menu, select Convert & Modify, then select
Create Icon (or something quite close to that), then a
photo and give it a try.

Billy Y..
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#53386

In article <l8l3pj$4pc$1@reader2.panix.com>, <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:

> William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> They can be, yes, if they're created at 512x512.  For example,
> here are two of Apple's on a 1280x1024 display -
> 
> http://hints.macworld.com/images/hugefinderb.jpg
> 
> > any ideas?
> 
> Perhaps Graphic Converter will do this better, although I
> can't check it today to confirm.  You can, at no cost -
> 
> http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
> 
> In its File menu, select Convert & Modify, then select
> Create Icon (or something quite close to that), then a
> photo and give it a try.
> 
> Billy Y..


thanks Billy

i found the process a bit confusing, and am not sure i did it correctly

in any case, it didn't improve the finder icons

maybe you can try it when you get a chance


bill

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#53389

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.

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#53390

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?

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#53457

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.

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#53474

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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