[chip-douglas]

I have a sony MiniDV camera that takes pictures also. When I view them on the camera or hook it up to the TV, they'll look fine. But sometimes when I import them into iPhoto they look like crap. If I transfer the picture to my old CRT iMac they look good again.

I have the colors on my monitor tweaked a bit to make the screen softer to look at, and i've tried the default display setups. I've taken a lot of pictures similar to the one below that will look good everywhere else, but may or may not look ok in iPhoto on the LCD.

I can't tell if it's from iPhoto or from being able to see individual pixels on the LCD. Anyone else experience anything similar and have suggestions?



edit: preview not working right I guess

[zigzag]

You don't say what resolution the photo is, or what resolution your LCD monitor is, or what exactly you don't like about the photo. Are the colors off, or is it just a matter of resolution? I suppose it's possible that the LCD is revealing more of the photo's lack of resolution.

[chip-douglas]

Well, it just seems grainy and kind of washed out. I have lots of similar pictures from Hawaii that don't seem to be affected the same way on this same screen. And, oops, you're right. I switched from 1152x864 resolution to 640x480 so I wouln't run out of space on my memory sticks over Christmas.

My monitor is at 1024x768. I just switched the camera back to the higher res and the pictures have lost that roughness they had before.

Thank you. Der, time to get bigger memory sticks.

[nsxpower]

There is a minor issue with iPhoto: although there may be enough desktop space to display the photo at 100% it sometimes decides to display it at odd scale of 79-83%. That could be the reason why high quality images look like absolute rubbish.

As far as 640x480 are concerned, they will look grainy since there are only 640x480 = 307200 pixels, which is .3 of a megapixel.