Help! Why do my images look overly sharp and appear to download?

I recently updated CC and now my images look overly sharp when I'm batching or working at a smaller size. When zoomed in at 50% they look fine. Is there any way to fix this? It's very difficult to work with everything looking so warped at a smaller scale. Also, when I open a file after batching and running an action it appears to "download" line by line instead of just opening. What is going on?

When I am batching multiple images and running actions, I don't want to view them at 100% they are huge files. 24 megapixels, on average 60.5M and 3925x5945 at 300 dpi. That's REALLY zoomed in. I was not having this issue with CC until I updated it and now everything looks warped at a smaller scale. I want to know why it changed and how to change it back.

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The over sharpening may have caused a color shift.
You might have better luck using the adjust sharpness command. Enhance<Adjust Sharpness.
Skip down to "Precisely sharpen an image" on the help page listed below for info on adjust sharpness command.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/7.0_Win/WSAC75B090-7431-4b74-B4DC-C5B02EBC4C BF.html
Here are a handful of links which might be of use about USM.
http://photocritic.org/unsharp-mask-sharpening-photos-photoshop/
Note: You will not be able to do the manual USM segment in the above article as Photoshop Elements does not include the Apply Image Command. It does give some start settings to try out.
http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/sharpening/USM_2_amount_ra dius_threshold.htm
http://www.naturescapes.net/122004/tg1204.htm
http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/unsharp-mask.html
USM for haze removal added as it can be a useful thing to know:
http://www.lonestardigital.com/photoshop_quicktips.htm
Several sharpening methods discussed including highpass sharpening.
http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/sharpening/1_sharpening_in troduction.htm
Highpass sharpening:
http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/high-pass-sharpening.html
http://nyfalls.com/article-photoshop-high-pass-sharpening.html

Why do my images look washed out...

Why do my images look washed out after I have worked in Photoshop CS6 and saved them in Finder? I have been a Photoshop user for a while now and have never experienced this problem. It started 2 months ago and no one can seem to tell me why or how to fix it. I am a professional photographer and I have clients waiting on their images but I can't send them looking as horrible as they do. My workflow is: drag and drop an image from iPhoto or Finder to Photoshop. I change things like levels, contrast, image size and use the healing too. Then I save to Finder so I can upload to dropbox or to website or burn to a DVD. Now when I save the image the thumbnail looks washed out, without color and looks horrible!!! I don't know if my photo files are corrupted or ? If I open the image in Photoshop or Bridge it looks fine. I would be grateful for any suggestions or explanation. Things were working just fine, but not now.

Examining the image direct from the camera of the child on the beach, using http://regex.info/exif.cgi there is a small embedded thumbnail (with black bars top-and-bottom to letterbox it to the LCD aspect ratio), and a small preview probably used for zooming in on the camera LCD screen, and the fullsize jpg image all contained in the one JPG file. All three of these seem to have identical histograms other than the black-bars causing a dark peak on the thumbnail image, but otherwise the shapes of the histograms and the position of the peaks from light to dark are the same.
In other words the full-size JPG and the embedded preview and thumbnail all seem the same other than size so the darkened version seen in Finder is not coming from the camera. The one issue the above website reports is that the camera JPG has a color-profile tag (name of the profile) but does not actually contain the color profile, itself. All other versions of the image have an actual embedded profile not just the name in a tag. It is possible that this is confusing Finder into assuming a different profile or gamma curve for the image that sRGB warrants, but most all camera images have this issue so I wouldn't expect a Mac to show images from all cameras as too dark.
It is a mystery to me why the Finder preview looks darker, but at least in the one side-by-side provided, it does, and is different-looking than all other representations of the image from what I can see.
At the beginning of this thread you said you were worried the photos coming out of Photoshop were washed out and had bad colors. From my perspective, what comes out of Photoshop looks the same as what comes out of the camera, so only Finder has it wrong. Are you seeing the darker image anywhere else besides Finder (and perhaps iPhoto which we don't have a screenshot of)?
Most importantly does the image you see on screen in Photoshop, while you're making adjustments, look dark like the pre-PS Finder thumbnail or does it look lighter, like the post-PS Finder thumbnail and all the images on DropBox?
If more than just the pre-PS Finder thumbnail is darker then you may have a monitor calibration issue that needs to be addressed, otherwise just ignore the pre-PS Finder thumbnail when evaluating if the image needs any adjustments and assume they are all ligher than the Finder image.
BTW, I tested for a sRGB vs AdobeRGB mismatch, and if an sRGB image is assigned an Adobe profile then the colors become more intense but the whole image does not become darker so that can't explain what is happening.

Why do my images look good in PSE8, darker & more saturated in browsers, etc.?

I've been creating some images using PSE8. The images look good, bright in PSE8. But the files, when saved as jpgs or as tifs appear darker and have more intense color when viewed through web browsers and Windows Picture & FAX Viewer. (the total effect is, the images look different, worse.) The same images on the same computer viewed on the same monitor look different in PSE8 and when viewed through other programs. This is not a printing problem, per se. The files print as they appear on the browsers etc. when I print them through PSE8. This is a problem that happens consistently with many different images.
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I don't know what the eRGB profile is -- where did you find it? Usually there is a profile with the name "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" or something very similar. If your Windows is insisting on a default profile for your display, that's the one to set it to.
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Loretta

Hmmmm.
I am using CS version 3.0.
Links panel shows no links 20-138.
Also no Effective resolution.
So I guess that for whatever reason they are not actually linked. I don't know why I could place them and see them but they are not really there.
I will try and re-place these this afternoon. I've been doing this for 2 years and this has never happened. Oh well.
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Loretta

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I'm not sure why this happens, but I found a workaround. Below the album title it will list the artist(s). The issue seems to happen when there are multiple artists. For example, an Album titled "Over the Sea to Skye" has The Chieftains and James Galway as artists. Some tracks (for whatever reason) will list only one of these and result in the playlist showing what appears to be multiple albums. You can click on the artists and it will highlight. Paste in what is appearing on the other "albums" and it will then show as one:
Hope that is somewhat clear enough to help. Doesn't fix whatever the issue is but it is a workaround. For me this is only happening with CD's that I have imported.

Why cant i download music in the Uk the same time as the USA why do we have to wait weeks and weeks to download music when other countries can download it straight away?

#itunes store. Why cant i download music in the UK the same time as in the USA? Why do we have to wait weeks and weeks to downloand music when other fans can dowload music in other coutries when it is released in the US?

Itunes can only provide what the owners of the distribution rights to the music provide.
If the owner of the rights do not provide it, then itunes cannot sell it.
You would have to ask the owners of the distribution rights in each country why they do not provide them at the same time.

Why when I resize an image does it looks less sharp and poor quality?

I've been using Photoshop since CS3 and have never had thus problem before. I used to create websites using WordPress for clients and have created many different logo images without any issues. Now however I'm doing it for muself and I'm having problems when I resize the images for web use.
Here are a few examples. The first is a 1400x1400 image that I'm going to use for a podcast. iTunes requires this size and it looks good to my eye. When you look at the resized image however you'll see that it is not quite as sharp.
1400x1400 http://d.pr/i/SrtJ
300x300 http://d.pr/i/IqtI
Logo at http://safetydad.net
Twitter page http://twitter.com/thesafetydad
I've tried all different things to get it to look good at any size but no mater what when the image gets resized (especially by a CMS or Twitter) it looks like crap. I've tried saving as png, jpeg, flatteing before resizing, resizing the psd, saving as jpeg then resizing, using save for web option but no matter what it doesn't look right.
What am I doing wrong?

When you scale down, you will lose some of the sharpness because it is removing pixels from the image, and Photoshop is trying to figure out how to remove pixels, and reassemble the edges of the image.. As a result, when some of that shading is removed, it begins to blur. Make sure when scaling down an image (image - image size) that you set the resampling to bicubic sharper. This will help to reduce the blur from the pixel removal.
Also, you can go to filter - sharpen - unsharp mask - and work on bringing back some of the sharpness there as well.
For your twitter logo - I would make a separate logo for it, because the text is difficult to read over it. Sorry - just my opinion there.
You may have tried these things already - but if not - hopefully it helps
On the other note - I think you might be hyper-critical of the changes...

Why do my images look blurry when opened in photoshop?

Hi! i was just wondering if i could get some help with a problem i've been getting since yesterday.
Before yesterday morning, my photoshop was working just fine but then yesterday morning when i opened this image.
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instead of it looking like the first image above, the thing though is when i export the image from photoshop as a png, jpeg or any other it looks normal again like this.
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ssprengel wrote:
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What is there to fix? When zoomed out that far, your monitor can not display all the pixels needed. If you could fix anything, it would be increasing your screen resolution assuming it is even possible. Most video cards have a hard coded limit just like the monitor has a limit. To go beyond those limits would require purchasing a new card and/or monitor.

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For work I always paste 3 images of varying sizes onto the same page in photoshop. This wasn't an issue and always looked great when I did it in ps5, but since upgrading to ps6 they always paste flat, desaturated and underexposed. Put side-by-side with the original they look terrible.
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RGB is not a color space, it's a color model. Color spaces are sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB etc.
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