Pixel Joint Forum: blurry 'zoom in/+' on pictures?

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   Whenever I go to look at a piece of art on PJ, the initial picture looks fine, but when I press the + (zoom in) button, instead of being a pixelated zoom, it's all blurry and non-pixel looking.

I had sent my tower to get fixed a few months ago, and when I got it back I had to fix the screen res. back to fit my monitor (since the monitor they hooked it up w/was smaller...) and ever since I got my tower back and whatnot i haven't been able to zoom in on pixels. I'm not sure why, since my screen res is defintley correct now (1440x900).. it ever says on the lower right hand of part of my monitor what the screen res for it should be.

so basically does anyone know how to fix this/ever had this problem?
if this doesn't make sense I can go do a screenshot.

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cassiechihuahua Seaman Joined: 19 June 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Topic: blurry 'zoom in/+' on pictures? Posted: 20 March 2010 at 5:10pm
	Whenever I go to look at a piece of art on PJ, the initial picture looks fine, but when I press the + (zoom in) button, instead of being a pixelated zoom, it's all blurry and non-pixel looking. I had sent my tower to get fixed a few months ago, and when I got it back I had to fix the screen res. back to fit my monitor (since the monitor they hooked it up w/was smaller...) and ever since I got my tower back and whatnot i haven't been able to zoom in on pixels. I'm not sure why, since my screen res is defintley correct now (1440x900).. it ever says on the lower right hand of part of my monitor what the screen res for it should be. so basically does anyone know how to fix this/ever had this problem? if this doesn't make sense I can go do a screenshot.
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1ucas Commander Joined: 27 June 2005 Location: Brazil Online Status: Offline Posts: 174	Posted: 20 March 2010 at 6:31pm
	This is a feature in modern web browsers. Images resized in the HTML are interpolated so they look better. This is fine for the vast majority of images on the web, but it's absolutely awful with pixel art. I'm not sure there's a fix for Firefox, but in Opera you can just go to opera:config and disable "interpolate images". I wonder how most people over here deal with that problem, since Opera has a small user base. Edited by 1ucas - 20 March 2010 at 6:32pm
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IQbrew Commander Joined: 02 May 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 157	Posted: 20 March 2010 at 6:54pm
	I don't know what others do, but I use the windows built in magnifier. It doesn't blur at all, and has many settings. All programs, accessories, accessibility, magnifier
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cassiechihuahua Seaman Joined: 19 June 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Posted: 20 March 2010 at 10:08pm
	I use IE and the thing is, this wasn't a probelm before I sent my tower off, but now it blurs. But now I am using IE8 if that could affect it. Thanks for the comment on magnifier, I didn't think about it. I'd rather be able to click zoom but it beats nothing.
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1ucas Commander Joined: 27 June 2005 Location: Brazil Online Status: Offline Posts: 174	Posted: 20 March 2010 at 10:29pm
	Ah, yes. IE6 (and 7, I think) don't have interpolation. IE8 has.
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Manupix Commander Joined: 05 November 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 771	Posted: 21 March 2010 at 5:29am
	There are fixes in Firefox 3.6 One has to be implemented by the website. PJ gallery did it (but not the forum) (hey guys), Pixellation just did it too so on these sites the zoom is pixel-clear without any user intervention. The other is on the user's side, it's been described somewhere before (search the forum) and disables f*** bilinear filtering once and for good.
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