Quick Preview toggle - images appear very soft?

I have noticed that when using Quick Preview to run through images in my projects all images appear sharp, however if I toggle quick preview off and then back on again the image never sharpens.
This is similar to the effect you would get on first view, i.e. an initial soft image that sharpens when loading completes.
Has anyone else noticed this?

Hi guys:
I came searching for this same problem and only happened upon a solution (at least for me) very accidently. In my case the "softness" doesn't seem to be actually linked to the "quick preview" toggle.
When I pull down the "view" menu from the top of the screen, I pass the "quick preview" command and go down to the bottom to "Proofing Profiles". The profile for the proofing was set to one of many of my printer's profiles, which was not calibrated, yet, for my mac. I selected, instead, a previously saved calibration setting (one that I made using the simple calibration wizard under the monitor system preference) specifically for my monitor, and the viewer image changed to look exactly as the one in Browser thumbnail; sharp and detailed.
I certainly hope that this may help you. As I said, this is not based on in-depth knowledge of this program, just trial and error, so may not apply to your situation.
Good Luck
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Hi,
Probably since 3.1.2 upgrade or 10.6.7 or turning on Time Machine I am experiencing following behavior:
I have project for my family photos in aperture for this Year where I have folders for months and then albums for events. I usually drag and drop the selected images from Import browser to appropriate album.
The problem is when I use Quick Preview - then all of imported images (in whole Album, but not project) are "squared"/blurred (you can imagine that like if you take image 200*200 and resize it to 1680*1680) - the small and middle preview are squared and the biggest and fullscreen are clear.
When I turn of the Quick Preview then the Loading... appears and clear the image. I can then turn on the Quick Preview and it stays clear until I restart the Aperture and squared image is back.
When I start the Aperture and select the album/project it automatically starts processing (Processing IMG_XXXX) some, seems random, number of images) - and nothing happened. (turn off and turn on Aperture and processing starts again).
Here is what I tried (no success with anything):
- Delete preview and generate new previews
- Copy to other project
- Change the size of the preview image (from 1680*1680 to 1920*1920) in Aperture preferences
- Change preview image quality to 9 from 8 in Aperture preferences
- Export the project as New library - this has one effect - the biggest preview and fullscreen image are squared here also
- applied all file permissions to files as are by default on Picture folder
- Repaired permissions
So in summary:
- preview pictures are squared
- aperture does not remember/store the smaller quick preview files after restart
And here is a example of the image:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17422374/example-squared.png
Thank you for any help or ideas to try.
Regadrs
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Hi guys:
I came searching for this same problem and only happened upon a solution (at least for me) very accidently. In my case the "softness" doesn't seem to be actually linked to the "quick preview" toggle.
When I pull down the "view" menu from the top of the screen, I pass the "quick preview" command and go down to the bottom to "Proofing Profiles". The profile for the proofing was set to one of many of my printer's profiles, which was not calibrated, yet, for my mac. I selected, instead, a previously saved calibration setting (one that I made using the simple calibration wizard under the monitor system preference) specifically for my monitor, and the viewer image changed to look exactly as the one in Browser thumbnail; sharp and detailed.
I certainly hope that this may help you. As I said, this is not based on in-depth knowledge of this program, just trial and error, so may not apply to your situation.
Good Luck
Arcody

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I’m using a late 2008 MBP and SL 10.6.4 with AP3. After importing around 5000 RAW to a new project, quick preview in full screen isn’t working properly. Viewing the photos in full screen at full resolution is not an issue. Only when switching to quick preview, the image disappears and the screen goes black. When flipping through the photos in full screen and quick preview on, the photos flash up for a blink of an eye before the screen goes black again.
What I’ve tried so far is to delete and generate new previews, repair permissions and the library and rebuild the library. However, as a result all projects now have the same issue. Moreover, photos aren’t shared with other (iLife) applications. The projects in the photo browser in Mail as well as the control panel for desktop background are empty. Sharing with iTunes, i.e. syncing photos on my iPhone, doesn’t work (again, projects have 0 photos). Of course, sharing is enabled in AP preferences. I’ve read several articles about this sharing problem but the solutions posted didn’t work for me. As sharing uses the jpg files, I guess this is somehow related to the quick preview issue.
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Hi, this might sound really stupid.
I'm new to Aperture. Love the idea of Quick Preview - but how do I get it to work???
I watched the online Aperture's official tutorial videos (which flickr really bad, btw) and used 'Help'. When I press 'P' or go to 'View, Quick Preview' - the images don't actually move. It says 'Quick Preview' under the image, but they are stationary. I tried selecting all of them, but, no, same thing.
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Whee
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That answers it then! Thanks for your quick reply Ian.
What I was looking for is some way to have images run on the screen and mark my selections. I used FotoStation a lot. And I am missing it a lot in terms of picture selection - you run slide show, press spacebar to mark the pics you are selecting. When the slide show finishes you can give that selection a colour or a rating, in a bulk, all at once. I was hoping quick preview would do a similar thing - quick flick through big sets, choosing images by one key-press, then adding info in a bulk (in Fotostation, all my first-round selection is green, then I choose to display only the green ones, and from those I choose a more narrow, final selection, the red ones).
I find this is a really fast and effective way to go through big sets. Do you know if there is anything similar in Aperture? Can you mark images from a slide show and then add bulk rating/other-selection-criteria.
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Hey all, probably a bit of a "newb" question here... so forgive me, and thank you...
Using a D7000 and often times when I shoot - the preview image on the camera looks BRIGHT, VIVID and ROBUST ... after import however - when reviewing my shots, JUST as I arrow over to the next shot - many of the preview images tend to look better than the processed image that aperture displays once it's done spinning it's wheels.
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When I click on quick preview and browse through an import, the pictures truly look nicer to me than the when aperture processes them.
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