MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Nagging graphics question

> I've worked with Paint Shop Pro 9 for years. Currently I use it for work to clean up
> scans of sheet music before exporting to iPad. Recreationally I adapt various
> widescreen images to fit my 1920x1080 screen as wallpaper.
>
> Lately I've noticed that it loads up JPG's with a noticeable, pixelly degradation.
> It's not my computer because I can load the same image in IrfanView with no loss in
> image fidelity. But by golly, I'd say about 3 in 4 car pictures I load (most of which
> are already 1920x1080) appear in PSP as visibly corrupted.
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36804572/aven_grab1.jpg
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36804572/aventador_degraded.jpg
> (yes, I know this had to be saved as such, but it already looked fuzzy in PSP before
> saving)
>
> The stupid thing is, I KNOW about SAVING with less vs. more compression, but I was
> completely ignorant of LOADING with less vs. more compression! I've tried looking for
> settings that would change this, but I'm stumped. Can anybody say WTF I'd doing
> wrong?

Is it just that the image is slightly larger than your screen, and PSP has to scale it to make it fit? A lot of graphics apps will use a quick and dirty scaling algorithm just to fit the image on the screen without using a lot of time or CPU. Can you force the zoom to 100% in PSP and does that clear it up?