Adding Filters To Still Images Makes Them Blurry

Has anybody experienced this?
I am working on a photo gallery and simply adding "ANY" filter such as drop shadow or roughen edges blurs the photo. If you toggel the effect on and off you can see the difference in quality.
It happens to either format "Tif or Jpeg" These are images with scale keyframes applied.
I actully noticed this in CS2 also. I guess it carried over to CS4.
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I've not experienced this in either 2.0 or CS3.

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hth
adam

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Low image resolution makes photos blurry ...

What ever happened to the hi-res image sync feature in iTunes?
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I want to import still images to make a stop motion animation, but when I try to change the duration of still images, it isn't reflected in the timeline. How can I do this?

I want to import still images to make a stop motion animation, but when I try to change the duration of still images, it isn't reflected in the timeline. How can I do this?

Tonaw,
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