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I recently switched to a 27" iMac with a retina display (my current second monitor and my prior monitors were NEC PA242W monitors with normal pixel density displays).
I immediately noticed a change in how things looked when I was sharpening images. On the iMac display, it was much more difficult to see the effect of sharpening. Even when applying extreme sharpening (just as a test), I could not see nearly as well the effect of the sharpening I was applying.
Poking around the web, I learned that this is a side effect of a high pixel density monitor, because the human eye cannot as easily distinguish the changes that sharpening causes at, say, 220dpi vs 96 or 72dpi.
One recommendation I have seen is to sharpen at 200% (or more) rather than at 100%. Others have said that the upsampling the monitor does to display at 200% makes it more difficult to sharpen, because some of the fuzziness one sees at 200% is due to the upsampling the monitor does, rather than being due to image softness.
How do those of you with high pixel density displays deal with this?
I immediately noticed a change in how things looked when I was sharpening images. On the iMac display, it was much more difficult to see the effect of sharpening. Even when applying extreme sharpening (just as a test), I could not see nearly as well the effect of the sharpening I was applying.
Poking around the web, I learned that this is a side effect of a high pixel density monitor, because the human eye cannot as easily distinguish the changes that sharpening causes at, say, 220dpi vs 96 or 72dpi.
One recommendation I have seen is to sharpen at 200% (or more) rather than at 100%. Others have said that the upsampling the monitor does to display at 200% makes it more difficult to sharpen, because some of the fuzziness one sees at 200% is due to the upsampling the monitor does, rather than being due to image softness.
How do those of you with high pixel density displays deal with this?
