After editing, photos now look blurry

The photos out of my digital SLR camera were really crisp right after upload to iPhoto; but after straightening and using the editing tools while in full screen mode, the photos now look a little blurry. Any ideas?

Hi all,
I've noticed the same problem.
But clearly this blur does not affect the picture files as they are saved on your disk. It's probably just a question of optimized display when looking at pictures in iPhoto.
Take a crisp image, import it into iPhoto. Now simply crop it a bit (you don't even need to rotate it !). When looking at it in full screen, it will now look much softer than the original one, you can check this by pressing the shift key. But now press "1" to see it at 100% : your image is not blurred, it's just badly displayed !
Same problem when simply opening an image in Preview.app -- since leopard there are some fancy zoom animations, but images look indeed very soft at everything but 100%
Hope they will fix this soon, It's frustrating to look at softened images from a marvelous camera ...
Malte

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