Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: Screen Resolution
I have always had my 19" monitor set to 1024 x 768.
I "heard" some people on another forum talking about a higher screen resolution being better for editing images in Photoshop. As of now, I do not know why that would be better.
What does everybody else set their monitor at? I could set mine higher at 1152 x 864, or 1280 X 1024.
Does anyone know if that would be an advantage in regards to editing images?
Steve,
The most important setting is to make sure you are editing at 100% view in PS. Anything less will involve an interpolation of image pixels to fewer monitor pixels, which you should avoid. I do most of my editing at 100 – 200%, regardless of the monitor resolution.
I typically work on slides scanned at 2820 dpi, which usually produces (depending on cropping) an image with pixel dimensions of about 3700 X 2500. So you see, it is just not possible to work on an image that large at 100% screen view, unless you just view a part of it.
I do try to keep the screen view at "round" numbers, such as 12.5%, 16.7%, or 25% if possible. I just worked on some 100 megabyte drum scans, where I set the image view at only 10%.
In light of that cbadland, would you recommend setting my monitor at its highest resolution to achieve maybe a 50% screen view for the aforementioned image sizes?
When you say "I do most of my editing at 100 – 200%, regardless of the monitor resolution." what is your monitor resolution set at? And how big are these images?
The images I work on are about 7200 X 3000 px. I work on a LaCie III 21”.
So, yes, I certainly have to do some editing at less than 100%. What you suggest seems to make sense (using whole multiples “round” numbers), but I haven’t read if that makes much difference. Let me know if you have.
I think you are right that some global editing, like color and contrast corrections, might be better at a lower view percent; you can see how it affects the whole image. However, for certain editing, like lens correction, making masks, using the clone or healing tool, sharpening, blur filters, add noise, layer effects, etc, I work at 100-200% for accurate viewing.
cbadland said - "The images I work on are about 7200 X 3000 px"
Those are some pretty large images. What was the input method, were they scanned, or was it digital capture? If you have those set at 100% screen view, you are just seeing a small fraction of the image. That just would not work for me.
I just set my monitor at 1280 X 1024, which is the maximum, and I still can only get 25% of a typical image I work on, when I leave room for the palettes. Since I do a lot of landscape images, I need to see the entire picture when doing adjustments like levels, or curves, or saturation, or unsharp mask. Only when I clean up with the clone tool do I expand it to 100% or so.
I am just not seeing the downside of working on an image at 12.5, 16.7, or 25% and it is an unreachable goal to work at 100% anyway.
I am very happy with my monitor, it is a MGC 19", it is several years old, but I think I have it calibrated very well. I just had some lightjet prints made at Calypso lab, and used their lightjet color profile, and they were right on the money with my monitor.
I just got some 5000 dpi drum scans back, so I will work on them at my highest monitor res. and see if that is any advantage. I still can only get about 16.7% screen view on these large images at my monitor set at 1280 x 1024.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject:
Zooming in and out at the correct intervals does in fact make a difference. Notice the quality between 33.33% and 25%. 33.33% is larger, but the 25% is much clearer and true to what's actually there at 100%. _________________ Best Regards,
Bryan Downing
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