r/captureone • u/Difficult_Leopard783 • 12d ago

Why does this happen when i zoom in?

https://reddit.com/link/1hqtmgx/video/0tzie7xvkaae1/player

Is there something I can do about this? How can I properly edit it if the image is literally different depending on how zoomed in I am?

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u/jfriend00 12d ago

It's a little hard to see here in the video exactly what you're asking about, but if you soon into 100% view, then you will see the full effects of things like sharpening and a few other adjustments that are only approximated at lower zoom levels.

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u/Difficult_Leopard783 12d ago

Can I make it so I see the full effects at all zoom levels? I want to know what the photo looks like before I take it out of C1

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u/jfriend00 12d ago

Your video goes a little quickly for me to see what really happens at 100%, but it looks significantly over sharpened to me. Could also be too much clarity or structure.

The thing is, few images are actually used in their final form exactly at 100%. Even a print is scaled to your print size (scaled up or down depending upon how large you are printing). Viewed on the web, it's down sampled a lot to web sizes. So, if you're really trying to optimize settings for a particular use, you have to see what it will look like at that particular size after being scaled to the output resolution of pixels.

If you want to see if you're overdoing something, then just take a quick look at 100% to see the full effect. It's not possible to properly represent things that happen at the pixel level at 15%, 25% or 40% zoom scaled for the screen. The same is true of noise reduction. That happens at the pixel level and you can't accurately see the effects of that at something other than 100% view. Besides being a real performance issue to even try to show them at partial zoom levels, those zoom views are just approximations anyway.

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u/Difficult_Leopard783 12d ago

Ah, it's probably over sharpened, and too much structure. I thought it looked good zoomed out but then I uploaded it to Instagram and it looked how it does zoomed in

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u/qtx 11d ago

When it comes to sharpening and posting to IG it is advised that you first resize your image to 1440px on the short size and then after that apply sharpening.

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u/Prophet1cus 11d ago

Maybe try recipe proofing? Select the exporting recipe that resizes the image to the dimensions you're going to use and then turn on the proofing.

u/franzkap 11d ago

You can’t see the real effect on a zoomed out version, that’s simply impossible. The best way to check the real effect is to use the export recipe and use the proof view (Names could be slightly wrong, I’m not in front of my Mac rn)

u/Prophet1cus 11d ago edited 11d ago

Up until a certain zoom level (36% on my end) what you're seeing is a lower resolution preview. Only once you zoom in further it switches to showing you the full res image. Like others have said, some sharpening/denoise adjustments are only shown when zoomed.
These 2 things cause the noticeable quality switch you're seeing. It's also why colours are sometimes off in areas with high-frequency details. The way these are downscaled to the preview and the interpolation C1 does to resize/zoom cause (average) colour difference between zoomed out and zoomed in (>36%) view. Pretty bad for a photo editing app, even free viewers like XnView or Irfanview do this better.