Can this BUG get fixed?

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

The one where you have an image with several adjustment layers and you merge some layers or flatten the image and the density and saturation changes.
If you view it in actual pixels it does not change.
Bad bug, Bad bad bug.

[Rene_Walling@adobeforums.com]

Its not a bug, its a limitation of your display.

[Paul_Hokanson@adobeforums.com]

zoo, all crucial editing should be done at 100 percent pixels... anything less and you've got antialiasing and other display issues clouding the real view of things. It's always been this way in Photoshop.

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

A good example of this - create a new document, fill with noise with a setting of 400%.

View at 25% - and do a curves or levels adjustment. The image changes right?

Wrong!

View at 100% and you get the accurate preview.

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

Crucial editing can not always be done at 100 %!
Try working on a 3 gig image and using actual pixels view.
Duhhhhh
I know it's always been this way, that is the problem.
Actual pixels is the only acuate view, we all know that and that is the problem!

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

How would you suggest that you can fit all of the pixels in a 3GB image onto your 72 ppi monitor, so that they are all visible at once, without interpolation?
[That's what you are seeing when you look at an image at other than 100%.]

Although you could always ask Sony to build you a Custom truck-sized monitor……

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

"I know it's always been this way, that is the problem."

So it isnt a BUG then, is it?

The software engineers know about this, and so do you. This behavior was fully expected on all counts.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

I agree with Rene, Paul, Jason and Ann.

Some people just come awfully close to crying wolf once too many.

[Larryr544@adobeforums.com]

You could open a second window of the same image. With one set at 100% or more and the other showing the entire image.

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

Crying wolf, get real & save that type of worthless comments to yourself!
It may not be a bug, but it is a sever limitation to working with digital images in photoshop. Like I stated, you can't work on large images in actual pixels, no way no how.
Flattening large images every-time is to time consuming and also not an option.
An alternative viewing option that shows what you really are getting may be the ticket.
How hard could that be if it shows you the correct view when flattened?
AKA view flattened mode.
Just because it's always been a problem doesn't mean it should be accepted.

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

"Like I stated, you can't work on large images in actual pixels, no way no how."

So you would rather have a slow-assed redraw (I mean really slow) so you can accuratley view at smaller percentages?

"Just because it's always been a problem doesn't mean it should be accepted."

The fix for this problem would introduce other problems.

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

Absolutely I would prefer the option to use it, Absolutely!

Right now my only option to get an accurate view of my image is to flatten which takes a long time even on a dual G5!.

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

"Right now my only option to get an accurate view of my image is to flatten which takes a long time even on a dual G5!."

Dude - that's exactly what PShop would have to do to get an accurate preview...the file itself wouldnt be flattned, but it will still have to render a flattened composite for a preview which could take ages with a big file.

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

Not if it was a low rez version as when appling filters,...Dude.

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

"Not if it was a low rez version as when appling filters"

&*#^&*&*!!!

are you totally missing the point here!?

There's no way to have a low-res version and expect it to be accurate!

That's why it is the way that it is.

It's a balance of either quick/inaccurate, or slow/accurate.

Dood.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Not if it was a low rez version as when appling filters,...Dude.




are you practicing your comedy routine on us??

[Chris_Cox@adobeforums.com]

zoozx - you already HAVE a low resolution preview, that is what's causing the "problem" you're complaining about!

[zoozx27@adobeforums.com]

Let me be clearer.

I want a solution to the problem!
What ever it is. I don't know how to do it, or if it is possible. I would think something better than the current limitations is doable.
People working in large size images, Which i seem to be in the extreme minority 1-4 gigs
need an accurate view without having to view in actual pixels or flatten the image. That is not practical work flow. Actual pixels gives me a view of a box of pixels that is pretty much useless on a large image.

[Chris_Cox@adobeforums.com]

zoozx - there is no solution other than viewing at 100%.
Anything less than 100% must be a reduced resolution preview, and cannot be completely accurate (because pixel values have been averaged or subsampled to get that preview).

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

This problem can only be solved by an investment in hardware.

In other words, follow the suggestion that I made a while ago and commission Sony or Apple to build you a bus-sized monitor ; then you CAN edit all of those giga-files at 100%.