Image quality/resolution in booksmart, zooming in
My apologies if this is an old one, i have searched the forum and found relevant information and i would like to confirm my understanding… The issue… I ordered a book a few days ago but when i went back into my booksmart file and zoomed to maximum on the cover images i found rather severe quality issues. I was convinced they weren’t there before as i was very diligent in checking my images. Of course in retrospect its hard to be 100% sure that i checked everything at fool zoom. Anyway, to cut a long story short i would appreciate some confirmation about the following points… *To aid editing speed booksmart creates considerably lower quality versions of the images which it stores alongside the full size images. *The quality of these ‘zoom files’ or image placeholders varies considerably depending on the details and settings of the original image (noise, iso, range etc). *When you zoom to maximum in Edit or Preview mode you are essentially magnifying an already low res/quality proxy image so the degradation can appear considerable. *Assuming the photographer/blurbarian(!) has taken full responsibility of image quality/size then the Zoom slider is really only meant for placement/positioning of the image on the page, not for checking image/print quality. If the answers to these questions is ‘yes’ then i can exhale again and await my book! Johnny
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