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HELP! images appear pixelated and of general bad quality


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Gal Kimhi

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Hey there guys!
im an amateur photographer, and i use photoshop a lot!
i recently upgraded my system to windows 8, and i upgraded photoshop to CS6, from my previous CS5.
anyway...
i noticed that when i look at my photos in either BRIDGE preview mode or photoshop, the photos are in bad resolution ,appear slightly pixealted and are extremely noisy.
if i open the exact same files in the wondows photo viewer the photos appear just fine, exactly the way that i took them.

WHY IS THAT??
can you guys help me? please??
 
sounds like your looking at thumbnail images and then enlarging them.
 
??what do you mean?
i open the photo IN photoshop, straight from either bridge or windows explorer, and the picture appears in BAD quality.
when i open the same one in another program, the picture appears just fine

huh??
 
I'm stumped if your images are opening fine in other programs, have imported smaller files into bridge or PS?
 
iDad - yup! they open just fine in any other program. i didnt understand ur question, though.
MikeMc - i had to disable GPU acceleration in PS because windows 8 and PS dont work well together when the GPU acceleration in PS is any other than "basic" . even so, when i change it back to normal, the problem persists....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
 
ok so ill post some links to the screenshots:
i couldnt put up really large files, so the differences are less obvious but are still there!
these are closeups of the photos, i used a closeup becasue in these sizes you cant really see the difference unless i zoom in...
 
look at the out-of-focus black strip on the upper right side of the picture, and how it is pixelated in the photoshop pic, while its rather sharp in the other one, although the other one is in higher magnification.

these changes are evident on full screen size while in high resolution...
 
i only see a desaturation in comparision, is one layer mode in a different setting on one of the files?
just a thought
 
It's hard to tell on those low quality jpegs but I'd say the Photoshop one looks better. As for CS6 not liking Windows 8? I'm not sure what you mean because that's my setup, perhaps you need to update your drivers.
 
Gal Kimhi said:
iDad - yup! they open just fine in any other program. i didnt understand ur question, though.
MikeMc - i had to disable GPU acceleration in PS because windows 8 and PS dont work well together when the GPU acceleration in PS is any other than "basic" . even so, when i change it back to normal, the problem persists....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Click to expand...

That sounds like a RAM issue......Windows 8 and CS6 are RAM hogs....
 
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