I am using WinXP Pro, SP3. I'm not 100% sure of monitor color depth, or if there is even such a separate thing, but I know I put Nvidia settings at 32-bit.
> 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?
> I've used Paint Shop Pro 9 in the past. Maybe you already know this, but JPG is a horrible format for images.
> You will almost always get some image degradation with JPG.
When PSP9 zooms to 100%, it doesn't clear up. The funny thing is, viewing the SAME DAMN JPG IMAGE in IrfanView is normal, unpixelated.
FURTHERMORE, PSP9 doesn't behave this way with ALL images, just an inconvenient coincidence that it happened to be with a large handful of car wallpapers. And not all the car wallpapers I loaded.
> Next thing I want to mention: Paint Shop Pro 9 doesn't work well with large image files.
It has worked well enough for me. Yeah, I know JPG is inherently lossy and I COULD work with PNG if I really so desired. But for my current non-pro purposes, meh.
> If I were you my solution would be: Get your hands on Photoshop. It doesn't even have to be the latest and greatest Photoshop
Even if I were to score Photoshop for zero money, it would be the re-investment of learning time I can't afford right now.
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