Some dock icons have low resolution?

Some of the icons on the dock bar have low resolution while others are ok.  In the attached pic, the Chrome, Iphoto and Excell icons have low .  When I reset the iMac, then there are different icons with low res.   It is not affecting functionality but I wonder if something is wrong or corrupt.  
thanks,

Boot in safe mode. This will cause certain caches maintained by the system to be rebuilt.
Safe mode is much slower to boot than normal.
When the login screen appears, reboot as usual (not in safe mode) and test. There's no need to log in while in safe mode.

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