Cover Flow , bad preview for jpg

the most of my pictures are .jpg and for the most of them, Cover Flow create bad resolution preview .
do I move a picture to a other mac with 10.5.2 installed, the preview in Cover Flow is fine !
for me seems to be a cache problem.
some one knows where preview pict for Cover Flow are stored. can I force the system to create new previews ?

I suspect the problem is more likely that many or most of your jpegs have custom icons, which are a mere 128x128 pixels and look a bit ugly if the Cover Flow panel is bigger than that. The only solution is to strip the custom thumbs from the jpegs and let the system draw them. The program CocoThumbX can strip custom thumbnails from files.
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Hi, I'm new to Leopard so please excuse me if this question has already been posted.
Cover Flow in Finder displays ICONS. I'd like to use Cover Flow to display my DVD COVERS.
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MartinJapan2007 wrote:
With no Get Info/Add Artwork option in Finder's Cover Flow (unlike iTunes) I cannot change these base icons to the cover art, which is what I7d like to do.
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I recently bought a Nikon D90. The images are pristine, but I like to correct the color of every picture I shoot using Photoshop CS4, save the file, and then import the corrected image into Aperture.
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Holy cow! Hard to know where to begin. Let's see:
pete2864 wrote:
My problem is that when I correct the color using AutoLevels in Photoshop
Using Levels to correct the colors is like using a chain saw for brain surgery. Using Auto Levels is like operating that chain saw while wearing heavy boxing gloves.
You should learn how to use Curves or, these days, correct the colors in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw), usually a one click operation as long as you have one neutral area in your image (like a gray card).
Are you shooting raw or JPEGs? ACR can correct JPEGs too.
pete2864 wrote:
…and then view the image in cover flow, the preview is smaller and very pixelated.
I'm not sure what Cover Flow does. Sounds like it—whatever kind of Apple gimmick it is—is using an embedded preview.
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Horrible horrible horrible feature of Lion:
iPhoto is occupied iwth a large upload of images to flickr.
I want to review some more of the images I shot today in thumbnail to
open and start working on them in photoshop without waiting for iPhoto
to finish (this is reason #6099 why I do not let iPhoto control the
location of my photos on the drive, so I can access them without
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(Feedback already sent to apple, BTW, if you have this problem too, and there's no solution offered by one of the bright folks on this board, please send them some at apple.com/feedback--the place to put feedback for programs like finder that don't have a 'send feedback' menu item))

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I want to disable cover flow, or at least find a way back to my PLAYLIST, not the current song's album list.
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