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Re: finder icons pixilated

From Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Message-ID <20131218152919107-alangbaker@telusnet> (permalink)
References <151220131029029296%whanna@invalid.invalid> <2013121515224728187-alangbaker@telusnet> <151220131743075515%whanna@invalid.invalid>
Subject Re: finder icons pixilated
Date 2013-12-18 15:29 -0800

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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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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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