[Torstein Nordstrand]

Please bear with me, I am ignorant of the correct terms here...

I do most of my stuff in black and white, and Painter's brushes are swell. Larger work for print force me to work on-screen in 10 - 25 % of the original size. When I do this in Photoshop, I have noticed that when the on-screen downsample numbers are "halves" of the original size (50, 25, 12,5, 6.25 percent, etc), PS makes a much nicer 'preview'. In Painter though, I can't discern which details are good or bad from any preview percentage, it all looks like a crisp pixel-mess. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Or better, anybody know how I can fix this? Painter 7's preview resampling method is fine with colour work, but when the edges are strict and fine (like in b/w linework), it makes a mess of it.

Thanks

[Michael Clarke]

Yes i've had trouble with exact same thing, and I am not sure how to fix it either. Its frustrating, because they didn't have this problem in Painter 6... So its like they broke the zoomed-out views with the new version. There's a setting in general preferences called "Draw zoomed-out views using area-averaging" which basically addresses this problem.. but it doesn't seem to do anything in version 7. In 6 it works fine and everything looks smooth when you zoom out. I often draw and paint in the zoomed out views so its very annoying when I can't see if the lines are smooth. I wish i knew the answer to this enigma too...

[Jin]

Hi,

I have the same problem in Painter 7. Though this won't address that problem, it might help a bit.

In the bottom left corner of the image window, there's a small up-pointing triangle. If you click it, a small view of your entire image pops up. There's a red rectangle outlining the area of the image that's currently displayed (when you're zoomed in). If you click and drag the red rectangle to another area of the image, that area of the image is then displayed in the image window.

This is one way to work on your image at 100% zoom and still be able to both get a quick view (though tiny) of the effect on the entire image and pan around the image quickly without having to zoom out, then in, then out.. etc.

To close the little overview pop-up, click once in the image.

Wish I knew a way to fix the scraggly zoomed out view.

[ May 03, 2002: Message edited by: Jin ]

[summer]

if you are talking about images being blurred when zooming then I've had the same problem a year ago. Happened in Painter and ACDSee. It's a driver error and the reference drivers from nvidia had to be unchecked somewhere in the properties for direct 3d. I'm sorry, I don't remember anymore where that was.


Regards
Summer