Low resolution photos in screen saver

Hi,
I have a question regarding the screen saver in system preferences. Whenever I select one of my iPhoto albums, or a picture folder, to be displayed as the screen saver, the displayed pictures look jaggy and low in resolution. I've checked/unchecked every option in the pref pane, but none of them seem to help. The preset screen savers, like forest and cosmos, look great though. My photos are all 5MP (2592x1944pixels), so I can't imagine that their resolution is what is causing the problem.
Cheers,
Shinbone

Hi, Shinbone. Welcome to the Discussions.
As a guess, it may be from the need to scale down the images to fit your screen resolution, which I suspect is less than 2592x1944.
The images in Cosmos, for example, are 1024x768 pixels.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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