Imported photos showing up blurry in iPhoto

I recently switched from a PC to an iMac and dragged my photos from the "My Documents" folder on my external drive to the iPhoto program on my Mac. I opened iPhoto to look at my pix and noticed that some of them are a lot blurrier now than the last time I viewed them on my PC. This seems to be mostly with my older photos. Is there a reason for this, and is there some kind of setting I can use to get them back to normal (the way they looked on my PC)?
Thanks in advance,
Sunny

I recently switched from a PC to an iMac and dragged my photos from the "My Documents" folder on my external drive to the iPhoto program on my Mac. I opened iPhoto to look at my pix and noticed that some of them are a lot blurrier now than the last time I viewed them on my PC. This seems to be mostly with my older photos. Is there a reason for this, and is there some kind of setting I can use to get them back to normal (the way they looked on my PC)?
importing a photo to iPhoto makes no changes - it just copies the photo so what you have in iPhoto is exactly what you had on your PC
a couple of possibilities to look at
1 - for large (high resolution) photos iPhoto displays a quick, sometimes fuzzy image and then completes loading the full image and the image clears - are you giving it time to fully display?
2 - is you iPhoto display larger than your PC display - if you have low resolution photos displaying them on a larger screen will let you see the pixels - making them "fuzzy"
3 - is there any chance you imported lower resolution sions of your photos? What is the resolution of one of the "fuzzy" photos - look in the info window on the lower left - if it is not there, click on the blue "i"
LN

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