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blurry 'zoom in/+' on pictures?

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Topic: blurry 'zoom in/+' on pictures?
Posted By: cassiechihuahua
Subject: blurry 'zoom in/+' on pictures?
Date 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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Posted By: 1ucas
Date 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.



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Posted By: IQbrew
Date 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

Posted By: cassiechihuahua
Date 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.

Posted By: 1ucas
Date Posted: 20 March 2010 at 10:29pm
Ah, yes. IE6 (and 7, I think) don't have interpolation. IE8 has.

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Posted By: Manupix
Date 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), http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?board=2.0 - 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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