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approaching12am
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Image Zoom and Scale Default

I've noticed that the default image viewer setting has changed to 100% zoom recently, and I rely heavily on presenting extensive galleries of large images to clients and having the images default to ...
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batmacgyver
Explorer | Level 3

When viewing a link to an image, small images should not be scaled up to fit the browser window. Large image should be scaled down to fit, but smaller images should just display at 100% size. For example, After Effects calls this zoom level "Fit, up to 100%". 

 

At the moment, if I send a link to a web-resolution image to a client, Dropbox blows it up to fill their browser window. If I'm sending a bunch of static web banner designs for review, obviously a tiny MREC banner blown up to fill their 27" monitor is going to look absolutely horrendous and I'll inevitably receive an email asking why it "looks so pixellated". 

 

Please fix this! 

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Walter
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3 years ago

Hey batmacgyver - thanks for the feedback on this. It's been noted in our system. 

 

Let us know if you have anything else to add. 

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