Low image quality when working

When I am working in Photoshop and zoom out on the image it gets really noisy at quality gets quite low but when you zoom in enough to work it smooths its out get back's to normal quality. I was looking at preferences settings to find the reason but nothing really worked.

Photoshop Zooming is done for performance speed not done by using slow best good interpolation. The only time your viewing you images actual pixels is when the zoom level is 100% actual pixels. Everything else you see is a quick scaling not the best image posible.

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For the individual images, don't worry about the ppi or as you call it dpi (ppi is the correct term BTW) only worry about the pixel dimensions. If the pixel dimensions gets too low, it will look horrible as there is not enough data to work with.
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That being said, if you can load your images in as smart objects as any scaling that takes place samples the original sized document. Making it possible to scale it down to a size that is barely visible and then reset the size back to where it was and have no loss of data.
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