I recently bought a nice 1440p Asus proart 27inch display and for some reason my images are compressed on Darktable. My photos scale correctly when using other apps like NxStudio , Lightroom , and the Windows photo app. I don’t have this problem on my laptop, which also uses a 1440p screen. I did play around with the settings and windows scaling, but nothing seems to work.
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What if you close the film strip?? Also you could select small instead of fit and scroll to say 25% in DT and then your viewer to 25% not 32% and at a matched percentage are they similar in size?? You might also from the look of it be looking at the embedded jpg preview in the photos shot shown here and that might impact what you are calling pixelated…if I understand where you are going with that … it not as sharp or contrasted??
Couldn’t see any obvious pixelation in the “raw” image other than perhaps due to downsizing:
Can’t help with dt, I don’t use it.
This is a very long shutter exposure. There is motion blur. Your processing in dt has no sharpening.
And I think you are comparing to the camera produced jpg (embedded in the raw).
Pixelated is probably the wrong word, but the photos are not as sharp as they are on my laptop. It’s compressed in a way. If I zoom in a bit on the photo then it appears to be normal or like it is on my laptop. I’m thinking this is a scaling issue that DT isn’t handing correctly.
Hopefully that shows the problem , it seems to be compressing the photos in both lighttable and the darkroom. The only difference between my desktop and laptop is the screen size. My Desktop is 27inches and my laptop is 14inches.
I found this thread, and it turns out I had the “prefer performance over quality” setting turned on. That fixed most of the issue , there still some scaling issues but i’m sure it’s just a wrong setting.
